In the first half of the film, the rhythm is very slow, and the progress is even drowsy. There is no portrayal of the adults in the film, and the children always seem to have their own ideas. But this is the brilliance of the film. If you stubbornly stand only from the perspective of an adult, you will never understand the film.
In the world of this movie, the child’s idea is so firm that it makes sense to make scraps and pick up trash. What is the purpose of reading and reading? As for adults, what else can adults say except for a few useless words and self-righteous deceiving children? And this is the real child's world.
The whole film didn't let Arbor really grow up until Swifty's accident, and let Arbor come out of his children's world. His growth is so painful and so lonely. Where are the adults? In Arbor's view, adults have always been just a group, a group that is not higher than themselves, but not lower than themselves, but more slippery and similar to themselves, so he didn't say anything when he was deceived by the adults, and ran after Swifty left. Go to strangle the culprit. In this, he didn't have any fear.
The tone of the film is simple and cold, like Arbor's heart.
The movies about growing up are always similar, so when watching this movie, many movies flashed through my mind, from the oldest "Four Hundred Strikes" to the unknown "Hedgehog's Elegance" to fame. In the so-called “Very Loud, Very Close”, the protagonists in the movie, the boys and girls, always look so confused, sentimental, even weird and unreasonable. Antoine in "Four Hundred Strikes" is rebellious, wandering, and uses his actions to avenge this bad world. Baroma in "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" is eccentric, clever and eager to plan suicide. The Oscar in "Extremely Loud, Very Close" uses his own power to try to overcome his fear. And their final tragedy must have originated from adults, and so must the final salvation. The child is very simple, so the reaction of the child must be brought to him by the adult and the society.
This type of film is collectively referred to as: Youth Lost Film. There are always many bridges in the film that make people hate iron and steel. Children’s precocity is often the source of the story’s "non-ideal" direction, and a large number of scenes of children hesitating, ignorant language makes a lot of Spectators couldn't bear it. Therefore, there are always many people who are willing to watch this type of film, but are unwilling to watch it, and are willing to watch it but unwilling to understand it. I remember that when I watched "Extremely Loud, Very Close", I saw a lot of comments, saying that the child inside was just like a neuropathy. Some people even asked me without watching this film: "Extremely Loud, Very Close," Are you talking about farts? This makes me very sad. If the tolerance of this society is so bad that even children can't tolerate it, then we really have become selfish giants, as this film said.
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