War is cruel, children are innocent, and our hearts are contradictory. The war on the earth is a kind of self-harm but inevitable historical process of human beings. "If you don't sacrifice something, then you won't get victory; you have to focus on the overall situation and sacrifice yourself." We hear a lot of these kinds of words and understand a lot, but people's emotions are always fluctuating, and they are affected by the picture. Infect. In this seemingly peaceful world, I, who have never experienced war, really love to "seeking trouble". War films have made me sad and distressed time and time again, but I still search for those deeper World War II movies time and time again. "Shoe Shine Boy" is one of them.
Desica is a famous Italian director. He is good at shooting people's lives under the society. "Shoe Shine Boy" is a movie that uses children as the theme to reflect the real life after World War II. This has some similarities with Pesirini's "Germany Year Zero", but the difference is that "Shoe Shine Boy" is a process from social cruelty to the destruction of pure friendship. And "Germany Year Zero" uses the dark reality and the sinisterness of the human heart to corrupt children's hearts. Basically, the problems raised by the two films are the same, but the friendship between the children in "Shoe Shine Boy" is the most painful for me.
Because of poverty, two young boys of the same age, Mark and Jupesai, are the same as other children persecuted by the war. In order to live, they have become shoe-shining boys. Because of the money, the two of them were designed and involved in a case. In the crime case, both of them were detained in a juvenile house. In the juvenile house, many young children show expressions or behaviors that are more mature than the actual age. Obviously, everyone is to survive, and everyone is to consolidate their small status and reputation in this anarchic state. King dominates. For the two simple teenagers, Mark and Jupeise, separation has become the cruelest fact. Mark loves Giupese like his brother. In this chaotic society, Giupese can be said to be happy. He has the love of his parents and Mark's love. However, he is still a child after all. It is easy to be influenced by the outside world. Because of misbelieving the rumors, he misunderstood the Mark who had always loved him. The two people who went against each other finally met on the verge of death, and Mark's accidental killing of Jupese might really be the best ending. The word "death" at the time can be said to be a form of relief or another way of living, which is only the soul. Many people say that they are stubborn and incomplete, which is obvious.
As for the juvenile house where the children live, it is, to be precise, a youthful prison. Ninety percent of these innocent children were imprisoned in this harsh environment for no reason when they were still young. In the film, the little boy with lung disease inadvertently expressed a kind of hope, but in the end he died, and the hope in Mark's heart also died. The director makes a lot of ugliness, goodness, beauty, and evil in the world be attached to different children, and uses them to express all the emotions and status quo in this world. If you slowly chew this piece, you will easily find that every child has a different mission. They use their own experiences to tell all the audience what reality is.
Usually this type of filmmakers are the targets of sarcasm, just like Jean Vigo's "Operation Zero". All the adults in "Shoe Shine Boy" are not lucky enough to be arranged by the director and all become bad guys. We ask ourselves, are they really forced to change? It's not all reality yet.
Spiritual animals often appear in movies as a metaphor. In the film, the "sniper" of Mark and Jupeise's beloved horse turned around and ran. This scene reminded me of the horse that fell to the ground in Tarkovsky's "Andrei Lufsky". Doesn’t the horse’s departure and the horse’s injuries all echo the owner’s situation? Didn’t it all enhance the appeal of the film?
It's not because I am pessimistic, but because the feeling brought out by this film can easily lead to such thoughts. Change the way of thinking, isn't this just to make me cherish the present time more? The director just wants to use his other vision to tell us what war is and what society is like after war. In those years, those things, those things that were never known to me in the past, I could only absorb them meagerly through movies. Continue to mentally self-harm.
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