"KISS, soak in MISS!" Just like the first line of the movie, this is the beginning of youth. Under the golden sunrise, a teenager riding a bicycle to school... However, the calm opening and soft colors cannot conceal the ubiquitous violence and blood, intimidation, fights, group fights... in Yang Dechang’s lens , Youth is unscrupulous and unscrupulous.
The protagonist of the movie "Little Four" (played by Zhang Zhen) is in a clean white shirt. In the office, the fourth child's father is begging the teacher to check the papers so that the fourth child can enter the "Jianzhong" day department. Obviously, his father's efforts were in vain. Xiao Si still entered the night department and came to a turning point in his life. Here, Xiaosi made two good friends-Kitty and Airplane. There are not many airplane scenes; but Kitten, a thin boy with a head shorter than Xiaosi, is one of the soul characters of the film.
Someone commented that the kitten is actually the incarnation of the director himself. Cat’s appearance can always bring happiness to the audience-he imitated Elvis’ beautiful singing voice, so small, he has to stand on the stage to get the microphone; he always intercedes for the little fourth in front of the teacher, and even dismantles I’m going to fight when I get out of the chair; the short kitten always tries to talk like an adult, "Don’t do this, my buddy, don’t do this, let me see my face, come, let me make an appointment for you. Say it, give your buddies a face!" It was he who unconsciously introduced the P4 into another circle, allowing this good student to witness violence and experience hopeless love and bitter youth.
Also in the night department, Xiao Si met the girl "Xiao Ming". Xiao Ming is a very complicated character. In her, what we see far exceeds the burden of teenage girls. Being dependent on her mother, she has a far more thorough understanding of the cruel reality than the little four. Poverty, turbulence, and being surrounded by others, always in a state of insecurity and instability, which makes Xiao Ming have the innocence and shyness of a girl and the coldness of a mature woman. She was once the girlfriend of "Little Garden" boss HONEY, the target of the boys, and the first MISS in the youth of the little four.
HONEY is Xiao Ming's boyfriend, and the only man Xiao Ming feels can rely on and can give her a "sense of security". For Xiao Ming, HONEY cut and wounded someone and fled to Tainan. Although he is the boss of the juvenile gang, just like Xiao Ming said, HONEY is actually very honest, always unconvinced, and collides with others. If it weren't for the sharp knife that Xiaoming stabbed at Xiaoming at the end of Xiaosi, I always felt that Xiaosi would one day become the same "boss" as HONEY.
Some of the unique designs of the movie are quite memorable:
one is the lines with a strong dialect color.
"I'm only afraid of two kinds of people. One is not afraid of death, and the other is shameless." ——Honey
"I thought you were a good student, but you were in MISS and fight again ." ——Little horse
" Miss, you care about this sex and that sex. We are shooting black and white films."
—Director "If I quit smoking and save money on cigarettes every month, I can pay for you a pair of glasses in installments. "Is it."-Little fourth father
"What? You are in a bad mood? It's okay. It's okay to sleep and the sun comes out. Living people can't let their farts suffocate, right?"- people selling bread
, whether Shanghai dialect, Shandong, then it is Hokkien, classic lines, such as voice-over tips history. The story takes place in a specific era, when millions of Chinese moved to Taiwan with the Nationalist Government. Most of them want a stable job and live a stable life. However, it is not. The occasional "counterattack on the mainland" on the radio, the armored tanks entering and exiting the streets, the sabers dug up in the attic and the photos of Japanese women always remind the audience that this is a turbulent age, and the atmosphere here is tense and uneasy. And all this inevitably sneaked into the weak and sensitive minds of the next generation.
The second is a conversation between HONEY and P4.
“I’m in Tainan and I’m terribly boring. I can read dozens of martial arts novels every day. Later, I asked them to rent the thickest novels for me to read. In fact, the people in the past are really similar to the people we’ve come out. There is an old bag, everyone thought he took the wrong medicine. I remember, it seemed that the whole city had their heads up, and they were set on fire everywhere. He was going to stop Napoleon by himself, but he was still cut by the sliver-- "War and Peace." I don’t remember the other martial arts titles, I only remember this one.... It’s too late, and I haven’t read enough books. "The
nature is simple, but also forced to enter society prematurely. HONEY, understand that Xiao Si is liking his girlfriend, but he didn't go into a rage and didn't hurt others for Xiao Ming again. Because he understands that Xiao Ming is "loving" the little fourth in front of him, not just to seek a "sense of security" as he did when he loved him. Only HONEY really understands Xiao Ming. However, he still died, dying in the murder of the adult world. HONEY said, "I'm only afraid of two kinds of people. One is not afraid of death, and the other is shameless." After saying this to the "Liang Yao Guai" boss, he was obviously The shameless boss who violated the rules of the rivers and lakes was pushed under the wheel... lamenting that this ignorant, frivolous, and reckless teenager does not understand the rules of the adult world.
Third, it is naturally the ending of the story and the director's final count.
Xiao Si finally understood that Xiao Ming was more than a boyfriend. When HONEY fled, she used to be with "Slider"; when her mother was sick, she relied on the "little doctor"; when she dropped out of school, she moved into the house of Ma Sling's son "Little Ma"...Finally, Little Four The sharp knife that was about to stab the pony pierced Xiao Ming's body, shouting, "You will be looked down upon like this, you are not worthy, you are shameless, you are not worthy,..." Xiao Si's love received no response. , Ignorant of the depression hidden in my heart, the blood that spewed out found the way out and came to an end.
In the end, the cat took the record he recorded to visit the prison, but the ruthless guard threw it into the trash can...Elvis' song "A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY" sounded again...This is also the English name of the film.
The film ends, and the youth of the little four generation also ends, bearing the imprint of the times, heavy or sorrowful, time flies, leaving a sigh...
It took three days to watch the four-hour movie twice, and it was written, but it became more and more sad for this supposedly pure girl.
I kept thinking of Xiao Ming’s words, "Being good to me is to exchange my feelings for you with me, so that you are safe, you are too selfish and want to change me... I am just like this world, this world is It won't change for you...". For Xiao Ming, she was once disappointed. Like many viewers, hating iron is not a steel - she has a good relationship with every boy who chased her around her, and she can throw herself into the arms of others at will. But HONEY’s death completely took away Xiao Ming’s “sense of security”, and the youth that was once brilliant because of the love of Xiao Si inevitably died... If you say, in the youth of Xiao Ming turning from bright to dark, Xiao Ming It was his last bright color; then, in Xiao Ming's long dull youth, Xiao Si was her only bright color.
Yes, the obsessive little fourth still didn't understand the girl's heart in the end. Loneliness makes them unite, and loneliness separates them; they are unwilling to change themselves, but want to change each other to prove themselves...
Forever young, always tears-the memories of youth are vivid, and the price of youth is heavy
Yes , blooming coquettishly in the sweaty sunlight like poppies... "I have been skeptical about what I learned in history class because it is different from what I personally have witnessed. People have been there for hundreds of years. It’s terrifying to live in this state of unclear truth. Fortunately, many wise people have left enough clues in their art, architecture, music, and literature, so that their offspring can rebuild the facts and recover the truth. Confidence in human nature. Movies should have the same effect on future generations."-Yang Dechang
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