Regarding Pony and Shinshi, I actually think they are as cowardly as Watanabe deep down, but they put on the mask of "bad boy" on their faces to cover up, they deceived everyone, including they themselves. I really think this is a strange pair of friends. Pony is so impulsive and wild. His behavior has the characteristics of all problem teenagers. But Xinzhi, no matter what, I have never seen him become a bad guy. The child’s potential, in fact, is that Xinzhi is just a follower in all of their “bad deeds”. Except that he doesn’t seem to like to go to school and reading so much, Xinzhi has always been so peaceful and quiet with Xiao Ma, even I rarely even say anything. The pony is like a jumping flame, while Xinzhi is a pool of quiet water. One movement and one silence, two extremes. In fact, in these two children, what we see is the same youth we used to skip classes, tease teachers, watch adult movies, and peek at the love letters of classmates. This is just what they find for themselves in their ordinary and boring lives. It’s just a little bit of fun to escape their inability to find the direction of youth. Facing the fortresses in the adult world ahead, facing the tragedy like Watanabe, youth seems so fragile, in fact, the more People who are fragile on the inside tend to try to dress up incomparably arrogant on the outside, in order to conceal their own helplessness. And Xiao Ma is like this, he thinks it can avoid the twists and turns of youth. But in the end, he discovered that after going in a circle for many years, he was back to the original point. The lost youth seemed like a dream without traces. In the end, we saw Xinzhi riding a bicycle and carrying a pony, but the difference is that Xiao Ma's face is no longer the madness, and Xinzhi's face still has such a gentle smile. After youth, they seem to have learned how to face life.
Xinzhi: "Little Ma, are we finished?"
Little Ma: "Idiot, it hasn't started yet."
This is the little Ma and Xinzhi who have gone through their youth. At this moment in the movie, they are so warm.
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