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If you are worried about being spoiled, I suggest you watch the movie first.
Kotaro Isaka has a best-selling book called "A Song of Punk Saves the Earth". In this film, punk saves the universe.
In 1977, Britain was in the midst of an economic crisis, and young people began to doubt the government, and the political demands that were stuffy in their hearts needed to be vented out.
Ironically, the resentment happened to catch up with the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, and there was a joyous atmosphere across the country.
The underground band "Sex Pistols" released a song called "God Save the Queen" at this time, with the same name as the British national anthem.
Compare and listen:
＊Insert the song here: God Save the Queen (two versions)
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Except for the same name, the music of these two songs is completely different in style.
The lyrics of this non-national anthem are even more shocking. It connects the queen and the fascist regime together, repeatedly chanting "no future, no future, no future", "we are the burnt flowers in the trash can" and so on.
It is so passive and anti-government, the country must ban it, but the song was spread word-of-mouth among young people and finally made it to the rankings. The punk culture it represents also broke out from the island of England.
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Once I was sitting by the window of a cafe. A pair of boys and middle school students were sitting next to each other. They ordered a drink. They touched their heads and studied the female classmates on their phones. While scanning, they discussed the appearance and the possibility of getting on the base. Sex, happily chatting for half an hour and then left.
Regardless of the age, how to break adolescent boys has become a major theme in European and American youth films.
The title of this film-"Secrets of Party Hit Up", and the beginning also go in this direction.
Ian and his two friends are middle school students who love punk culture.
The three teenagers have been struggling in private about how to talk to the girls at the party to continue doing what they want...
As a novice, I am always at a loss when facing the objects I like. It's like Ian said to the girl in sight, "We've been in the same choir before."
The girl replied calmly, "Really? I forgot, what are we singing?"
Ian, who was eager to recall her memory, sang directly.
You know, the youth choir sings the kind of childlike beauties. And what they were in was an underground punk party... It's so dying, I believe you have had a similar experience, the original noisy environment, at that moment, happened to be quiet.
Ian naturally got a ridicule.
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There was no "catch" at the party, so the three teenagers planned to move to the after party.
They walked but got lost. They followed the mysterious music and came to a brightly lit villa.
There is also a party in the villa.
But the people inside are weird. They wore all kinds of brightly colored rubber tights, said things that the boys did not understand, and acted differently from ordinary people.
"Such fashionable, it must be from California, USA."
The boys thought.
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The matter of getting rid of the strangeness and making girls went well.
As soon as Ian's handsome friend entered the room, he met the sexy woman and was taken to a play room.
Go straight.
Ian's fat friend found fun among the dancers.
He reveled in experimental music, twisted his nipples, and danced excitedly with the crowd.
Ian himself found an outlying weird beautiful girl, and the two had the first close contact.
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As Ian's handsome friend found himself on the ground inexplicably by a "man", the weird whirlpool began to spin faster.
The three teenagers escaped from the villa.
"Take me to punk," the girl said.
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Ian took the girl home, and the two had a chance to explore each other.
The girl's performance differed greatly from Ian's expectations.
She grabbed Ian's hand and touched her armpit, observed Ian's lower body like an ant, and raised her foot to kick his nose!
The various behaviors of girls are not in line with daily behavioral cognition, like children and animals.
The dialogue between the two people is always unacceptable, as if they are acting in a funny sketch.
"Probably I have been in a closed environment for a long time and have been brainwashed," Ian thought, "I have to help her escape from the cult."
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As a young girl in England, she didn't know punk.
The girl's innocence and inherent coolness touched everyone who came into contact with her.
She raised her face and asked, "What is punk anyway?"
The punk godmother lovingly helped her put on makeup and put it on the stage.
She didn't enter the state at first, she chanted things that only she knew.
The audience became anxious, and Ian pointed nearby, "You have to shout out . "
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Yes, what is punk?
The main theme of punk is powerful catharsis, hard and fast performance and shouting singing.
How can I not shout out?
The punk circle only recognizes breaking the throat.
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In this live performance that pushed the film to its climax, Ian and the weird girl went straight to the universe, and the weird girl was thus conceived.
EAT ME ALIVE DADDY DADDY The Sun grips the Earth Takes a bite, Spits the Moon into the sky, We sink our teeth into the ground, And suck it dry, SHIT THE WORLD A FAT GOODBYE!!!!
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After reading this article, will you show the black question mark face, thinking, what kind of story is this? ? ?
In fact, when you see the film, you will feel this way: While watching it, you can't help but have the desire to stop and ask yourself.
For such weird films, the audience naturally stands in a polarized camp.
Some people laughed, followed by one after another, irritating, and it was so refreshing; someone scolded and filmed in a mess, completely narcissistic of the punk tribe.
Yes, this masterpiece made in 30 days has youth, aliens, SM, intersex 3P, child-eating, incest, and one more star in the universe...
Just look at these labels, your brain will explode.
Fortunately, the "parents" of this mystery hybrid are Neil Gaiman and John Cameron Mitchell.
The short stories of writer Neil Gaiman are the inspiration for the story of the film. The popular TV series "American Gods" in the previous period is also his masterpiece. He is hailed as one of the top ten postmodern writers by the "Literary Biography Dictionary".
Director John Cameron Mitchell has made the critically acclaimed movies "Rock Barbie" and "Sex Bus", which are equally amazing.
Again, if you want to play tricks, you must first lay a solid foundation.
I think Picasso’s abstract paintings are “I can paint too.” How many people have studied his blue, pink, and black periods?
In short, with such a good genetic guarantee, this film is definitely not the kind of grandstanding pretending to be "flying", so I sincerely recommend it to everyone.
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In addition, talk more about why many people always find it difficult to understand.
In fact, the seemingly chaotic film has its internal order. The maintenance of this order relies on language that has a slight threshold for the public.
So, if you don’t understand this language, you may really blame a good movie and ruin your mood.
Take "The Secrets of Party Hit Up" as an example. If you see cockscomb heads and leather jackets and only think of the non-mainstream of the QQ era, then you really wasted the time watching the movie.
Symbols on the mirror
This "circle A" symbol referring to anarchism actually existed before the "punk age". It meant to oppose all ruling classes and authorities including the government, promote self-help relationships between individuals, and pay attention to individual freedom and equality. .
Because of this political ideal, it happens to be the foothold of punk music content. The punks evolved it into the seal of their own ethnic group.
According to the characteristics of punk culture, they changed the original regular symmetrical geometric figures into a scribble writing style. The lines have also changed from round, sharp and rough, and the inner lines have been stretched out of the circle.
Over time, this symbol has become an "official seal" of punk culture.
Punk leader played by Nicole Kidman
Although in the film, this role dissed Vivienne Westwood, a grandmother-level figure in the punk fashion industry. But I think a large part of the inspiration for this character's setting came from the early Vivienne, including designing costumes, forming underground punk bureaus, and incubating underground bands into record companies.
Vivienne, who started from transforming second-hand clothing, later began to get involved in the higher-end clothing industry and turned the brand into a luxury item.
Since then, she has been less respected by real punks.
The general situation can refer to the story of the 21st century "Flower Band" and Da Zhang Wei.
＊Insert the song here: Huaer Band-Disappearance
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Recently, I saw a new advertisement of Hermès on Weibo, playing the "punk" card. I also feel that...
Why bother.
By the way, the "Sex Pistols" band mentioned at the beginning of the article was hatched by Vivienne Westwood and her boyfriend.
Later involved in this "punk revolution" was Richard Branson (Virgin's boss), a billionaire who later built a huge corporate empire.
In the 1970s, when "sex pistols" were banned by state media to the point of desperation, Richard Branson signed them.
Punk VS Hippie
The heroine and heroine kissed before they came on stage, and Nicole Kidman grinned in disgust, "Oh, this is so hippie...!"
The hippie movement in the 1960s, with the slogan "Peace and Love", was the collective thinking of the young generation after World War II about themselves, society, and their parents.
And the punk in the 70s is not the type of "Make Love, Not War" at all, what they want is war!
Punk completely abandons the escapism of psychedelic music in hippie culture, and replaces it with rapid, short, and direct expression, emphasizing the restlessness and vigor of youth, and impacting the unsatisfactory status quo.
So, you can understand this line as: Stop chirping, get upset!
Hippie is outdated, punk is in charge.
Self-made publications
Because the foundation of punk culture is to express protests against reality by denying everything and destroying everything, it naturally belongs to the "underground" automatically.
Information is mainly distributed through underground distribution, privately printed magazines, etc., and ethnic groups are also established accordingly.
Without the constraints of business rules, the content of underground publications is more radical and avant-garde.
In the photo, Ian is working as a magazine "part-time".
In view of the fact that most of the people who like punk culture are young people based on the working class, comics are also one of the tools for the rapid spread of ideas.
For example, the Black Flag band at the time posted a series of publicity posters that vilified the image of the police during the tour called "Police Story", satirizing the corruption and abuse of power that were rampant in the American police circle at that time, and hit the so-called "Tradition" and "Authority".
The hero Ian in the film also drew a series of comic metaphors about the spread of punk thought about the "virus".
In addition, under the advocacy of the anti-consumer DIY spirit, punks even advocate the re-creation of existing items, such as transforming second-hand clothes, or cutting and pasting publications.
First punk
"The first punk was a woman", this sentence is not nonsense.
The first punk was her:
Rhythm
Some people say that the second half of the film is less irritable. In fact, the director consciously slowed down the punk rhythm and added more reflection.
In fact, this kind of introspection has already begun to take shape from the beginning of the film:
Ian asked her mother who was celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne for an advance allowance, and then left with punk friends. The uncle next to him teased, "Oh, this is a revolution based on asking mom for money!"
Also, when the alien girl saw Ian’s viral cartoons, she said, “So the solution to'obedience' is to force seeding and colonization? This contradicts the freedom you are preaching!”
The above are all small details that you need to understand the punk culture.
In any case, only knowing the construction process of the password can it be decoded.
I have said so much, just to increase the fun of watching movies and get a richer experience.
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I don't know how many people will look for the secrets of pick-up girls in the film for the title "Secrets of Party Hit Up".
Presumably at the end of the film, the audience who aspires to become a pick-up artist can barely get two suggestions.
These two suggestions are still philosophical and not easy to implement.
Love with dead-line, from the classic movie "Roman Holiday" to the "Love Is" trilogy series, the list is endless.
From the realization of pregnancy, completion within 48 hours is also considered a record-breaking.
No way, aliens.
The end of the film is not spoiled here, but it may make you cry. I don’t know if this counts as a happy ending.
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Full text references:
◆Huo Wenjie: Graphic design language in the promotion of punk music
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