Since the beginning of the film, life segments traced back from death and never-ending dv records have been slowly inserted, rethinking the relationship between record and memory.
The first story Carson wrote to his grandmother: "Once upon a time, there was a little boy..." Grandma always told him that he needed to be polished up. When he was a child, he would slowly revise it, just like revising his own memory. . After the lightning scene, the movie is all about his extraction of life fragments. It is the entire form of film performance, not a record, but another skip and fast forward—the choice based on your own experience, which is just as Like the DV of the female classmate holding the camera, it records many things-but the angle and method are determined, so it gives birth to a limited sense of joy and cruelty.
She is doing something almost the opposite. She is not indulging in the past and hoping for the future. She just realizes that she cannot extract any meaning from the present, and chooses another form-recording and rewriting "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Moby Dick."
In the messy family relationship, Carson hopes for the future and wants to get out of the community; his father is busy coping with life and to please his new love-he can only say sorry, and his mother sinks into the quagmire of fear and regret...
And the words he said to her, like literary guidance, are also the best footnotes in life.
Life come at you fast, it runs through your body and tries to escape, and be expressd in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like... Lighting.
What Carson really needs to face is "fact" and "truth".
I had been so busy dwelling in my own self-pity. I had forgotten what I actually accomplished.
Regarding himself, he didn't even know if it was because of ADHD medications—compared to his peers, he treated life more thoroughly by himself? More avant-garde?
An irresponsible father, a frustrated mother, the shadow of the family is like a shadow, but he has memories after death, and he uses memories to dissolve his father’s polite words. Those things may come from the truest memories in his mind, but they are equally likely to react. It is a fragment of memories rendered through emotional and event experience. As he understood in high school: "Life is just a dream".
But the lightning of life is far from always a lightning passing from the sky, sometimes even just the transition from Call me Ishmael to call me Isabella.
In the end, he has never even seen the sea or left the community. He only linked it to the university with the calendar on the desk of the career development counselor.
The best thing here is to blend the narrative and perfect the plot in an aesthetic sense-through the picture-in-picture lens, Carson's sense of crampedness is shown, and that's all. There are a lot of things that undermine the tone, but there are a lot of interesting clips-teasing about political parties, teasing about religion. Those are common comedy scenes in campus youth films: keen on chatting online, making fun in the toilet, and participating Special religious gatherings, taking illicit drugs, deceiving girls' feelings, and getting together with coaches. But fortunately, they pulled it back a bit at the end. They had what they were scrupulous about, and they also had what they really wanted. Their real lightning is not in that literary club, on the grass, sunshine and football field, on the top of the cheerleading pyramid. They face the fear of falling and falling, the sexual desire that is almost gluttonous, and they are close to suggestive signs and symbols of love. And this didn't seem to be his own lightning, so there was the scene of grandma expelled. Ingenious details. While Gu Ying’s self-pity male protagonist is proud of tearing up other people’s submission letters in front of the editor of a literary magazine, his mother also tore off his notice, several rival scenes set up in the drugstore, and panning at the meeting.
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