Let's talk about the name of the film first. There are several translations in Taiwan, Hong Kong, English, etc., but this "crocodile, sneakers, walking around the world" is really the best translation, and it expresses the purest friendship between children. When I first saw the title of the film, I wondered what the title is, and I slapped my face immediately after watching it. Looking back on the title of the film, Su Shi suddenly felt the free and easy feeling of "Bamboo sticks and mans shoes are lighter than horses, who is afraid, a misty rain can be used for life". Otherwise, think about who now has the courage to cross the ocean to another city on a stranger's boat with six or seven hundred dollars in his arms?
It has to be said that children are the purest, but their malice is also very pure. They don't know how to score good and evil, and they will follow the trend to exclude a person. Like the HIV-infected Dexter in the film, he doesn't go to school, but his neighbor Eric is bullied by his bully classmates because he is seen as gay. So, the two lonely children walk closer, break through the fence, and become each other's friends.
Friendship of children, whoever plays well with me is a friend. Now, when I think back to those who were young, they would fight in groups when they were naked. At that time, who would care if you were rich or not, whether you were good-looking or not, and whether you could talk or not, because you could be together every day, Even old games that have been played hundreds of times are still enjoyable. So Dexter had Eric as his only friend. He took his pocket money to accompany Eric to drift across the river to buy candy. The two of them took a thrilling escape in the supermarket shopping cart and ate all kinds of leaf medicine prepared by Eric until they were poisoned. Follow Eric all the way to New Orleans to search for a new antidote that has not been verified, so he looks like an idiot to the audience, and can only say that if this is not love...
Eric elopes to New Orleans with Dexter, carrying With crocodile balloons, two pairs of sneakers, and a few dollars of 160 yuan, he walked around the world empty-handed. In these short few days, Dexter's dull life has been sprinkled with colorful powder, such as boat rides, watching beautiful women, reading pornography, hovercraft, camping and sleeping tents, stealing money, running away, intimidation, these thrilling things shortened Dexter's life. The length of his life, but also the breadth of his life. So Dexter's mom treats Eric so leniently because he tries so hard to make Dexter happy, what could be more valuable than happiness for a dying person?
There are too many details in the film to be reminiscent of, and it is necessary to secretly wipe away tears. When Dexter's mother cried and warned Eric's mother, the bitter heart of the over-the-shoulder shot was trembling; Eric played the wolf, and when he finally witnessed Dexter's death, he watched the pain flow into his heart without tears; Eric attended the funeral It's time to leave the sneakers in Dexter's hands, but take his sneakers and let the water flow. At this time, the crocodile has disappeared, but the sneakers are still there, and they can still travel the world.
When wandering, Eric faced Dexter who woke up from a nightmare covered in sweat and said, "When you're cold, hold my broken sneakers, because as long as this stinky foot is there, Erik will always be there By your side." So he did it, because of the sneakers, the two will never be separated.
They are still children, so they have to look directly at death so close, and feel the helplessness of the world with a tender heart. Fortunately, we are all alive, and our playmates are still alive and well, but we lost each other in the tide of society and gradually no longer have company.
At least, our childhood didn't die, which is nice.
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