(Text/Yang Shiyang)
The high reputation of "Young You" may come from three reasons: Yi Yang Qianxi has shown amazing acting skills as a traffic star, so that his original fans have the capital to tout and capture those traffic. The admiration of the disdain; the resentment after the file was fixed and withdrawn a few months ago now finally has the opportunity to make an excessive counter-attack compensation; the theme of "school violence and campus bullying" inspired people's innate thoughts about this movie Tribute. From these perspectives, many of the scores obtained by this film are derived from external auras, rather than the presentation of the story itself.
In fact, "Youth in Youth" and "Carnival" and "Thirteen Dogs", which were all the rage at the time, are basically in the same category-the value of the subject matter of the work is greater than the value of the work itself. In other words, in the current environment, this type of film has expanded the subject dimension of domestic theaters. In the gap between the playful farce and the main melody propaganda film, some serious issues have been included. "Carnival" focuses on the tragic story of girls being sexually assaulted by powerful classes, "Dog Thirteen" tells the experience of girls being strongly shaped and kneaded by the adult world in the process of growing up. If you have to compare, tell from the so-called sensitivity of the subject matter. , "Young You" is far lower than "Carnival", and from the perspective of the depth and detail of the spiritual world, it is lower than "Dog Thirteen", even those two works have their own very obvious problems. , But they are more focused on "social problem dramas" after all, and "Youth in Youth" is just like the name, it is really an out-and-out youth film, but this youthful ignorance of love and growth Was included in the shadow of campus bullying.
I don’t know how many people still remember a concept called "Cruel Youth". This phrase comes from the clever packaging of some booksellers more than 20 years ago. At that time, mainstream fans of Yi Yang Qianxi were almost just born. The works of "post" writers are named the best sellers in this title. The stories are all the same. The hesitation, loneliness, loneliness and sadness of adolescence stir some sudden killings, injuries, and flees, creating one or two independent heroes and heroines, and there is a time between them that saves each other but is ultimately separated. love. This is a typical type of writing. After experiencing the initial popularity, readers who have enriched their knowledge quickly see through the tricks. Those hypocritical words such as "sadness at a 45-degree angle" quickly become After the irony of these works on the Internet, these novels were gradually forgotten. And "Youth as a Young" unexpectedly reactivated it after many years. The lonely girl, Chen Nian, just wanted to go to Beijing and escape from the small town. The single mother was caught in debt and went away. She herself fell into an inescapable bullying vortex on campus. The boy Xiaobei started walking on the streets at the age of 13. Humiliated, fighting all day long, the two people knew each other, because an accidental crime made the relationship between the two go in an unimaginable direction. You see, all of this fits perfectly into the genre framework of "Cruel Youth". Let’s put it this way, this story draws people’s attention based on the problematic consciousness of "school violence", but in fact, bullying and violence have become a rhetoric of the whole story, and its roots are still old and belong to the "post-80s "The old grammar once invented.
From the perspective of the movie itself, the advantages and disadvantages of "Youth as a Young" are very obvious. Its excellence lies in the fact that the acting skills of the two protagonists are really surprising, especially Yi Qianqianxi. I don’t know how great his performance in it is. The ratio is derived from rational technical play, and how much of the ratio is derived from a certain perceptual instinct. This needs to be verified by another contrasting role in the future. In addition, this movie has too many problems, and the Internet Let’s not mention the original "Rong Geng" that has been upset on the previous page. I only talk about the film itself. The first third of it is inexplicably slow in progress. It is very awkward to the presentation of campus bullying, and it seems to be afraid of bullying and helpless performance. Not enough, but due to well-known reasons, all of this is destined to be incapable of being full of power. It is in this kinking and repetition, slowly advancing, and even more deadly, many characters in this story are suspended, no matter which ones. The small group of girls who have been bullying others or the male protagonist Xiaobei, who appeared later, gave them general explanations and forced the audience to understand the spirit. In this way, everything seemed very perfunctory, and besides, it was puzzling. The thing is that the relationship between Chen Nian and Xiaobei has progressed so fast. One is a girl who wants to study in the school again, and the other is a ruffian who has been in the society for many years. How can two people separated by a thick dimensional wall have the same reason? The occasional fight quickly heats up to such a point, and even a few days later, they will agree with each other's life and death? It's not that the little policeman can explain the past by saying "because they are still young." In the interrogation room, the policewoman said to Zheng Yi, the policeman played by Yin Fang, "No one will be charged with murder for a person." Zheng Yi said, "You and I will not, but they are still young." To a certain extent, the appearance confirms the creator’s own anxiety, because in the subconscious, the creator himself knows that in such a plot, the character’s motivation is suspicious and the motivation is insufficient, so I emphasized this sentence, one point, two Explained, but this is still unexplainable. The strength and weakness of the relationship between the characters in a play must have a basis, and this basis must be effectively explained, but everything in the story is explained frugally. What should we do in the end? Well, throw all the unreasonable parts to the hormonal impulse that rolls in adolescence. This is exactly the suspicious and weak fate of those "Cruel Youth" novels back then-the fragility of the "Cruel Youth" genre is that it has been telling some very hypocritical and dramatic settings in a seemingly low-level cruel story. . From these perspectives, "Youth in Youth" is not a drama on social issues. Its essence and depth are very "Guo Jingming". This is the reason why this story looks strange. The sharp things are fascinating at first, but The thorn and the blade gradually disappear, begin to dig into lyricism, and eventually lead to warmth and love. It starts from the ice and finally to the fire. The road in the middle is impassable and we need to navigate by ourselves, so some people make up the way by their own brains, and some people end up lost.
To be honest, the content on our big screen has become narrower and narrower. It is really rare to see themes such as "Youth in Youth". Therefore, this reality makes us more and more trapped in the evaluation of this type of movie. An embarrassment. We all know the limitations of external forces on the presentation of such subjects, so how should we treat and judge the director's compromise in it? Due to the ambiguity of external forces, we cannot know exactly which parts are the directors' efforts to do but have no choice but to give up, and which parts are the intentional but weak points caused by the inadequacy of the main creative's own ability. From a more general perspective, should we pay tribute to the spirit of these sharp issues and give up criticism after careful reading of the text? Because after all, they still insisted on posing some muscular postures besides the Yinggeyan Dance. It seems that neither praise nor criticism can escape the dilemma.
"Young You" tried hard to leave some sharp words, such as Chen Nian questioning the police, "If the world is like this, would you dare to give birth to a child?" Of course, in order to neutralize these, it also injected Lots of clichéd chicken soup. The violence and bullying stories on campus have more crude and realistic expressions, but that result may severely damage the commercial degree or even make it impossible to publish. Therefore, the current version that must ultimately be oriented to love and hope may be after reconciling many tastes. The improved fusion cuisine, but if you want to taste the authentic spicy flavor, you may have to go to the hidden underground shops on the corners, and the restaurants with lanterns and open doors. The dishes are filled with too much sugar.
(This article first published Tencent’s your circle column, unauthorized reprinting is strictly prohibited)
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