Maybe it’s because the subtitles on the D version of the DVD really deserve to be shoddy. The movie "Mouse Catcher" made me become a monk to a considerable extent, and maintained a mood similar to depression during the viewing process. ——It’s not because of the gray tones often used in movies of the same themes. I’ve been accustomed to the gray tones often used in movies of inner exploration. During the 94 minutes of watching this movie, my computer automatically shuts down a full eight times (fortunately, it was not shut down when I was writing a film review. Otherwise, with my limited patience, I would definitely take the antique notebook I bought in 2002 directly from the five. The window of the building is thrown out.)
Have you ever thought about to get away from your growing? Instead, Pianhua puts forward such a question that we believe many people have reserved in the subconscious but have not explicitly raised it. It was this kind of question that led me to return to my adolescent memory and ask myself this question repeatedly while watching this movie.
Rebellion and impetuosity have always been the theme of youth, even at that stage, she was still an obedient girl who was ignorant. Studying hard and getting good grades was the main goal pursued at that time, and due to a good family environment, I did not form a clear understanding of "good good study, day day up". It seems that they are all necessary. It is not that they have a very strong attitude towards life like Jackie Chan or Jackie Chan. Especially before the arrival of 24 years old, looking back at the various things at that time, on the contrary, it is a rather vague memory. Human memory seems to be arranged in a priority order of choice. For me, the order of flashbacks is this: high school, then junior high school, and then the nearest college age.
In the case of talk films, it seems that the result of not writing for a long time is to easily deviate the subject from the direction it should have. Just like when I was a student, studying well is just to abide by the responsibilities of students. At least for me, my understanding of such a problem only stays at this stage. The mainstream development direction tells me what "should" be. Will follow the "should" direction and walk down. I don't bother to think too much, what I should do is always the most convenient and most trouble-free general direction and short-distance road formed through previous experience. For lazy people, walking along such a path is naturally a quick way to get the life you want.
The protagonist of the film, James, is a boy who is only eleven years old. At the age of eleven, it does not seem to be the beginning of puberty. Let us just call it the age of youth preparation. But it is just such a child who does not look amazing and even has a short name that can be said to be an ordinary child. In the era of the workers' strike in 1973, the path of growth he experienced was probably far greater than those of children who grew up in the age of peace. They are much weird. At the beginning when James was playing with his neighbor’s child Rynn, Rynn unfortunately drowned in a small river full of waste discharged from industrial development. It was such an unforeseen misfortune that sent our protagonist James into adolescence early. After James ran home, he needed to accept the constantly drinking mother and the new sisters living in the new apartment, so he began to find an outlet for release in his uneasy emotions, and began to wander around with the older children who were really in adolescence. Kenny, a friend who teases an animal addiction, has met a lot of myopic girls with beautiful legs and started a period that he thinks is love, uh, let's call it love for the time being. That's cool, isn't it? In the European children’s way of thinking, they can hang out with young people who are older than themselves and become one of them without being excluded, and have their own unique life attitude with the likes of new rock singers or mavericks. And being generally recognized by others is something worth boasting about.
To be honest, the film itself did not leave a lot of impression on me in terms of plot shaping. The film is completely incomprehensible without reading the original. I have never thought that it is a good way of expression to move oneself in the mist and cloud. Even after the advent of the 21st century, many people who support the lifestyle of petty bourgeoisie pay attention to most of the details, but cannot grasp the obvious overall situation. Wong Kar-wai's later films have been repeating the processing methods that have been tried before, but they will still have a lot of loyal fans. Most people care about what clothes to wear, what to eat, how to cut oysters, how to use perfume, various fashion rules and attitudes to life (attitude can be used in weight loss, clothing, room layout, etc.) Etc.), and with the development of anthropology, a vocabulary such as ism has also been applied to various aspects. If you don’t read the text, you really don’t know what you want to express. Often you can’t understand the author after reading the text. The real intention. The petty bourgeoisie at the ideological level is probably just talking about the people who moved him.
Paying attention to details achieves perfection, and the premise is not to ignore the existence of the general direction. As far as the narrative of a movie is concerned, if only some of the scenes and some dialogues are remembered after watching, and the overall plot is forgotten, then it may not be considered a successful work.
Of course, the above-mentioned incomprehensible nonsense is just some rudimentary opinions of my humble people. It doesn't matter if you have read it.
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