The story of a 14-year-old otaku who stays at home and is taught how to properly waste his youth. Cheek is the other extreme of Mike, the yellow Russian who has stunned everyone from the moment he transferred to class. Put a vodka in a red plastic bag, put a cigarette behind your ear, get drunk and lethargic every day in class but get an A+ in math, just like the textbook version.
The soul of this film is undoubtedly the character of Cheek, who seems to be exuding some kind of unease that makes Mike, who is the opposite of his personality, treat him for no reason when he first transfers into the class. feel excluded. On the first day of the holiday, Chick parked the stolen Lada in front of Mike's house, dragged Mike to the school flower party, and let Mike give the school flower a gift that he had carefully prepared, while drifting the car. He arrogantly took Mike away, maybe at this time Mike felt that the love of Thirteenth and Fourteenth might be fruitless, so he might as well go on an adventure.
- "He's all dead"
- "We'll be dead in a hundred years too"
Cheek said he was Jewish Gypsy, and Mike retorted that there was no such person. But Chick was what he called a "Jewish Gypsy," intelligent, precocious, and longing for freedom. He arrogantly drove the car into the cornfield, wrote his name, and when he saw the bridge made of wood, he could also frown and say, "I won't go back", and then drove the car onto the wooden bridge without hesitation. The episode KIZ-hurra diewelt geht unter, in the background of Chik driving Mike with Mike in the summer sun, with the lyrics "Hooray, this world is about to end", I feel like if the world really ends then and that moment, Chik Mike and Mike might actually be chanting hooray. Another episode, Richard Clayderman, I personally think it is the director's bad taste. The classical music is matched with the road movie, and there is no sense of disobedience.
"You won't fall in love again, will you?"
If Mike's secret love for school beauty Tatyana is an attempt to integrate into the group, then the appearance of Issa is the object of sexual enlightenment for Mike. The tone of this little fresh road movie is not destined to be as full of decadence as Kerouac's book is like an adult road movie. It is an adventure without burden in the summer heat, and even a waste station can be harvested. A girl with blue sky eyes who teaches you how to steal oil - Issa. The three of them bathed in the river together, lay on the floating board to bask in the sun, and stopped and walked around. For Mike, Issa was not only a sexual enlightenment object but also a friend. When Issa ran to the bus to Prague, Issa Taking away Mike's first kiss also gave Mike his first taste of parting. Youth is the constant fall in love and the separation of good friends. However, the summer is not over and the adventure has to go on.
"You can't hold your breath forever, you can only hold it for a long time"
The orphan Chick, who has different nationalities, different skin colors and different sexual orientations, is what we call "marginal people". His father is having an affair, his mother is alcoholic, and Mike, who lives in a mansion that does not belong to him, is not a marginal person, but his life is still pressing. He, made him gradually dull, lost interest in the world, and would rather play games in the room than look up at the sky. Chick, who fell from the sky, seems to be destined to save Mike, even though the exposed personalities are different but the two have similar souls. They enjoyed Richard Clayderman's classical music together in the car, kicked pizza into the sky together, looked up at the stars under the windmill and talked about possible parallel worlds in the universe.
Everyone who is confused about life hopes to have a soul like Cheek to teach himself how to be a man. If the adult world in the eyes of Mike before the adventure is like the teaching of the head teacher and the teaching of his mother, they are contradictory and impossible to make. To tell right from wrong is a little unreal to fourteen-year-old Mike. Then the adult world after the adventure is as unpredictable as Dad's heavy punch, which is both real and depressing. Under the leadership of Cheek, Mike Storm grew up. After having a real friendship and a real heartbeat, Mike, who restarted school, changed from the inside to the outside. The pace of walking was different, and he turned a blind eye to others. The most important thing is to integrate The collective, being noticed by the goddess, being a "cool kid", these things that were important to Mike before seemed to become less important, and when he became indifferent to it, he became "cool" in the eyes of others, maybe really. The way to be popular is to not care if you are popular but to focus on who you are.
"They believe in us because we believe in them"
Some people think that Cheek may be Mike's imaginary alter-ego, because Mike longed to be this free and freewheeling person, so he imagined Cheek. For everyone who loves freedom, road films always resonate. Whether it is the self-destructive rush to freedom like "The End of the Road", or the interpretation of freedom as an extremely burning youth like "On the Road", I am more inclined to think that Cheek exists. In this film, Cheek symbolizes Freedom, his coming and going is unexpected, like a summer limit, save Mike who is not interested in life, tell him how to live enthusiastically, for 14-year-old Mike Cheek is his only best friend, he is limping Leaving the ground means the end of the summer, and will remember that Mike's life this summer will be different from now on. In the film, Cheek, Issa, and Mike meet here after 50 years of dating. After 50 years, this summer may seem like a fleeting dream to them, but I believe they will all go to the date, because Mike and Cheek have a tacit understanding, as if they can still find each other without communication equipment, and Issa will definitely go to the appointment, because she still owes Mike 30 euros and promises to pay it back.
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