Burvo Litton said that if a delicate face is a recommendation, then a holy heart is a credit card. Rocky in [Mask] lost the testimonial when he came out of the womb, but you never have to worry about his credit card overdraft. Rocky, a 16-year-old boy of
16 years and 6 months
, is a cheerful guy like his hippie mother Florence. But it is extremely ironic: Florence is the embryo of a well-known beauty in the town. Even if she is half-old, she is still the target of rough men and handsome guys, while Rocky is nowhere to be found within 800 miles. The second "ugly" man-because the negative genes of his parents were tragically coincident with a probability of one in a million, Luo Qisheng had a deformed face with an upper forehead circumference of 67 cm and a mandible width of 32.5 cm. Except for familiarity with his neighbors and best friends, no one dared to look directly into his eyes.
What’s more terrible is that Rocky’s life is less than six months left. For the past 16 years, Florence has concealed the fact that Rocky’s congenital disability never ended. His expanding skull and growing Deteriorating brain nerves may take her life at any time. But Florence always downplayed this sad message like eating a sandwich, so that Rocky mistakenly thought that after 16 years of peace, there would be more 16 years waiting for him.
Fortunately, God did not take away all of Rocky. Although he has lived for many years with a terrifying head, he also has a brilliant mind. He is proficient in mathematics, history and natural science. He not only yearns for a normal education in middle school, but also yearns for one day With the best buddy Ben is driving a motorcycle to Europe-there are so many facts that he loves to do it.
The ideal needs to be realized step by step. When Floren brought Rocky to the office of the dean of the middle school for the first time, the other party couldn't help taking a breath, and then tried to send the mother and child away with polite and naive language. But the fiery-tempered Florence immediately stopped him, "This is Rocky’s birth certificate and all his files. His academic records are among the best. I know he has the right to come here to study. If you have any questions, you can contact me. Talk to our lawyer." After that, he turned and left, and Rocky smiled and threw out, "I am a little ugly, but I am normal in other aspects. See you on Monday!" On the way home, Rocky curiously I asked my mother, "Did you really find a lawyer?" Florence yelled, "It's all TMD nonsense!" So
far, the film has completely distinguished from the grief and determination of David Lynch [The Elephant Man] Beyond the boundary, even if we can’t imagine how director Bogdanovic has the courage to adopt such a optimistic attitude to construct a “weak” character, it can be determined that the psychological endurance of “Rocky” is so rare that it makes the stirring extreme The hypocrisy of bitterness and sensationalism turned into dung.
The ninth grade and a poem On
the first day of the ninth grade, Rocky was sent by the rugged Daoze on a big motorcycle. When the classmates at the door bite the "masked freak" with sharp eyes, Dao Ze immediately blasted them away. Unfortunately, Rocky, who was sitting alone in the last row, did not win the favor of his classmates, and did not even applaud when the teacher introduced a new classmate. Rocky made up for the embarrassment by talking to himself, "Thank you everyone."-In fact, Rocky had hesitated for a long time when he got up early in the morning, but Florence warned him, "Don't worry about your face, because of your heart. It’s more beautiful than others, and it takes time to understand people and people."
Interestingly, this "time" was compressed to the shortest by the magical Lodge: When he lined up to receive the locker password, he easily remembered the password of the man in front of him, so that when the fool had forgotten the password, He accidentally received Rocky’s emergency rescue, which immediately made his classmates look at him with admiration; what is even more proud is that when no one in the class knew what the Trojan War was, Rocky was very familiar with the legend of the Trojan Horse Massacre, especially when he said "True It was Helen’s extremely beautiful face that triggered the war between the two countries.” He paused for half a second. At that moment, the whole class stared at him. After all, the word “face” was too much for Rocky. Sensitive. In this way, Rocky won the respect and quickly received a "business"-the handsome classmates at the next table asked him to be his own history tutor. Rocky's answer was, "Three dollars an hour, I won't work in vain. "
After Rocky, who was extremely happy, returned home, Florence's mood was very low-Gore, the man who once loved her but was "abandoned" by her, returned to the town, and seemed to have a new one. woman. Florence's heart was very sour, so when Rocky was about to read her newly written poems, she acted absent-mindedly. Rocky read. "How wonderful it is, cakes, ice cream, walking Mahari Street, watching monkeys go up the tree; a little bit of rain on the tip of the tongue, the sun is shining on the face; how annoying it is, dust on the hair, holes in the shoes, no money in the pocket, but the sun is still on the face Brilliant." But Florence said coldly like a wind blowing in her ears, "That's it?" Then she put on her coat and tried to get out.
Rocky finally broke out-he couldn't bear the indifference of his family at all. He first asked his mother "Is he tired of me", and then advised Florence not to drink men drugs and fooling around. Florence said, "You know all the time to take care of my life, you should have dinner first! Don't always mess with those useless baseball postcards!" Rocky responded immediately, "You only care about being with the men. Flirting and going to bed!" Florence slapped the poor woman with a loud slap, making the poor woman toss and turn around all night-she once said to a friend, "I won't hit him anyway!" Unfortunately, she broke her promise.
However, Florence is not the jerk mother who took her son to the railroad track to commit suicide in [Car Accident Love]. Her love for Rocky has never stopped, but she was really unhappy that night and threw her grudges towards the most. Objects who should not pick up mental trash. The next day, Florence once again used a hug to resolve the conflict with her son—they sat on the swing outside the house and talked. Rocky told her that his biggest fear was that his mother died outside because of taking drugs; Florence Si smiled and said, "Your poem is well written!" And what makes Rocky most happy is that Florence finally made a big
promise to her son-"I promised my son-to quit it. "Florence throws away the bad guy who sells white powder.
It’s
not surprising that the haha mirror and $25 , the burning speed of the Rocky hormone finally exceeded the growth rate of the skull-that day, Gore took Rocky, Florence and a group of friends to the playground to play, and Rocky casually watched in the haha mirror Arriving at a "unfamiliar" self: In front of the twisted mirror, his huge head became a normal shape. "Call my mother over!" He said to Ben on the side. When Florence walked behind her son, she could only be silent-after all, the person in the mirror was not the life she gave.
Yes, Rocky quickly reassessed his face due to the "Haha Mirror Incident". For many years, his mother and neighbors have never regarded his face as a topic, repeatedly emphasizing that he is like other children, or even better than them. But the facts have caused Rocky to erode the only remaining illusion-because it is not the person in the haha mirror, he may never find a girl who loves him. In the school playground, although the beautiful girl was kind to him, she eventually ran towards those handsome boys who could run and jump...Rocky couldn't help asking her mother, "If you are a girl, you What would you think of me?"
Florence suppressed her panic in a flash of thought. She wanted to dodge this question, but she could only answer habitually, "I would think you are cute because I like red-haired boys." The reason for Rocky's anger was that he wanted to try the request for external plastic surgery, again in exchange for his mother's firm opposition-after all, he didn't know that this operation might make him unable to get out of the operating room again. Rocky ushered in despair for the first time. Before he could find an exit, he could only say to his mother, "I just want to pursue a girl."
That night, Florence made a well-intentioned but stupid decision: She found a 19-year-old girl in a bar and let her and her son "accompany" the night. In Rocky's small room, the girl was frightened by the face in front of her, but she was quickly attracted by Rocky's humorous and warm language. Nothing happened to them. The girl sat on Rocky’s bed, and Rocky realized that the pain was for everyone to escape. Although the girl had a healthy body, her pessimism was even more tragic than herself. She longed to have If you have money, go to Seattle to find a decent job, not for a mere $25, waiting for the world's worst business in a smoky environment every day.
After the girl left, Rocky screamed at her mother again, "Do you think there is no girl in the world who will fall in love with me without money? You said that there will be no problem with my face, now it seems to be fake!" Flo Lance did find out that she had done something wrong.
A girl and two kissed on the
graduation ceremony, Rocky invited his mother and folks to school to cheer for him, but their unusually cold attitude disappointed Rocky, especially when Gore asked him to go to the refrigerator to get a can of beer and agreed to go. At school, Rocky slammed the door with anger. However, he soon ushered in a huge surprise-in the refrigerator, he actually found a suit prepared for him by everyone "joint venture".
This is the most glorious night that Rocky has spent since childhood: he won the highest scholarship in three disciplines on the podium, making Florence and his friends cry out in the audience, which sent him every day Dao Ze, who was dumb in school, finally said the first sentence, "I'm really - very proud of you - proud!"
We don't believe that Rocky can really receive God's special blessing, but we would rather Believe that all good things can happen homeopathy in those imperfect lives, such as love. When Rocky took part in the damn winter camp because Florence took drugs again, Rocky's remaining life was changed. Among the winter camp team of blind students, Rocky was obviously the most "sound" People, here, he met the beautiful blind girl Diana.
Diana was born in an upper-class wealthy family, but her biggest misfortune is that she was born into darkness. Therefore, when Rocky talked about "green woods and white clouds like rolling waves" excitedly, Diana had no idea. Obviously, Rocky has enough reasons to experience Diana's pain in loneliness and helplessness-this romantic boy took the girl by the hand to the camp kitchen for the first time and carried her to the stove. , And then presented the most unique surprise-he put the cold blue dough in her left hand and told her it was "blue"; put the hot red in her right hand, and helped her identify the "red", and finally He also brought cotton close to the tip of her nose—"white". In Diana’s view, the kind-hearted Rocky may be unique in this world. Even though Rocky hesitated to let her touch her face, Diana still "saw" the boy in front of her with her hands. "I think You are fine!" Soon, they fell in love without scruple. The digression is: Diana’s actor is Laura Deng, who has just debuted at the time. The kind and pure and beautiful temperament is completely different from the vacuum performance in [My Heart is Wild]. No wonder "Rocky" will be fond of him.
After the New Year’s bell, Rocky and Diana, who had danced all night, were silent with each other, "Don’t you want to kiss me?" This undoubtedly gave Rocky a few words without regrets in this life... Even if they return to the reality of them After all, they will be separated by Diana's parents, but they "will live together in spirit forever"-Rocky called Diana countless times, but was "intercepted" by the other's mother, and went straight to the racecourse to find Rocky who was his lover. , Hugged and kissed him again, and said this at the last minute. Diana is going to Santa Barbara to continue his studies, and Rocky, he doesn’t know where he should go-the plan of European travel has been ruined. Rocky’s best friend Ben, to go to the city for $7.5 per hour. After giving up his work and giving up love, seeing through friendship, and enjoying family affection, Rocky felt the approach of death resolutely—then went back to the room alone, removed all the iron nails on the map, and took out the star card Organized well, then went to bed... the
next morning, the school teacher called to tell Florence: Rocky was absent for the first time.
A woman and a mask
[Mask] put all the focus on "Rocky", and in fact, his mother Florence is equally important. To be precise, she and Rocky are truly similar people: self-awakening, never evading, and using a fighting stance to bring down life.
Florence’s lover Gore, the most accurate description of his beloved woman, appeared after Rocky and his mother quarreled over the issue of “rental girl”. He said, “When you were five or six years old, mother took When you go to take pictures, you are indeed an unusual child, but she stands there holding you like other children’s mothers. When it’s your turn, you just open your nose and smile, and the photographer has no choice. When I see your eyes, they are really beautiful.” It can be seen that the reason why Rocky can spend 16 years of happiness with a healthy mind is the only relationship with his powerful mother. Even though Florence has all the shortcomings of a hippie, her mood is volatile, and she lives her life like a stinking shit with powdery powder, it is short-lived after all-the amazing tacit understanding and mutual supervision between mother and child have reduced what could have been expected. The tragedy has led to a wonderful extreme opposite to [Witch Carrie]: Florence returned the most common but most difficult right to life to a disabled boy, while the latter’s mother sent her daughter to the grave. The strong motherhood also gave rise to the bitterness and laughter of [Mask].
Florence's extraordinary emotional control was especially sad the morning when her son returned quietly. When she knew everything and walked into Rocky's room as usual, she muttered, "All day long. Sleeping late, can’t get the scholarship, right? Did you just pass the Spanish exam? It’s so cold, you must have kicked the quilt again. Don’t do this to me, Rocky! Hear no, wake up!” Finally, her tears finally came. When the embankment broke, my mind was full of the poem "There are holes in the dust, hair and shoes, there is no money in my pocket, but the sun is still shining"-this is how she and her son came here for 16 years.
Xueer's performance in the film is even more eye-catching than her Oscar post-apocalyptic three years later [Moonlight Sultry], whether it's arguing with her son with haggard dark circles or tearing up the map on the wall. Fei, her combination of tenacity and softness, explosion and restraint is just right, and it is not in vain for the best actress award at the Cannes International Film Festival. And Alec Stotts, who has a handsome face, was ignored by many people because he put on a mask and starred in "Rocky". In fact, Stotts, who relies entirely on his voice and a mouthful of yellow teeth to create characters, is equally shocking, because the biggest impression of "Rocky" is not that ugly mask, but a kind of haircut. With his inner wisdom and natural humor, it is worth mentioning that although Stotts has played countless handsome roles in the next 20 years, he can no longer surpass the artistic achievements of [Mask]. This is actually based on Hollywood's ruthlessness. The facts ironic the inertia of the visiting team's "pixiang" in the movie.
[Mask] Another touching place is that it does not go into the "pretentious" polarities like [Xiangren] and [American Pastoral Crime]: in the former, the soothing elephant played by Anne Bancroft The good girl was imagined to be an angel; even though the "group of demons" in the latter had a true prototype, they had traces of demonization. And [Mask] The masses of beings that Liluoqi comes into contact with are more like human beings—no matter discrimination or true love, suspicion or trust, disgust or tolerance, they all have enough psychological foundation and standpoint conditions, so Rocky really lived once, and Not just died once.
The most eye-catching is the Oscar, which gave the film a smooth best make-up award.
Gold rusher
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