The bad boy and the good boy look up to the same sky

Vanessa 2022-01-21 08:03:07

I wandered on the roof, where Ma Xiaojun’s day was bright and sunny. I saw the past at Xinjiekou. The young man in the sea soul shirt carrying a beer bottle was still there, never getting old. I wandered around Guling Street, imitating Xiaosi's indifferent expression on my face, but found that the world was working as usual.
"He wanted to go back to his childhood, back to the beginning years full of metaphors and mysteries."
Truffaut said, Antoine was who he was once. The child's questioning eyes let out a silent roar at the world. Why do adults lie? Why does mom no longer just kiss dad alone? Why is the teacher always indiscriminate? Why are my cherished friends the "bad kids" among the large population? Finally one day, the child no longer doubts, he becomes withdrawn, indifferent, and numb. All his feelings were suppressed and hidden. Yang Dechang talked about the motives of filming "Guling Street Juvenile Murders", "I just want to go back to that period of history, those that are different from what we learned in history textbooks." Jiang Wen's "The Devil Is Coming" also has this layer. Express. It seems to cross, but it is like the intention of all directors of realism, to use the scalpel of image to cut through the heart of society, and to present the naked truth to all the brains that still have doubts. Restoring a gloomy and chaotic history, it is not so happy that it was born under the red flag and grew up in the spring breeze, nor is it unforgettable for the family of the country. It is just our youth, or passion, or sadness. Family mission, teacher's expectations, and the power of social change, these terms are so boring for "bad kids." So they chose to avoid or confront.
"The best resistance to life is to live well."
A group of young people in "Alpha Dog" are the carriers of different time periods in their lives. The protagonists who are addicted to parties, picking up girls and other activities to vent their desires are empty and unable to extricate themselves. Just like the beginning of all road movies, a group of hippies drove their parents' cars to find freshness and excitement. But on the way, he had an argument with others and shot and killed people impulsively and frightened. Xiao Zhengtai, who witnessed all of this, was full of unknowable fear of the future from envy of this group of lust animals at the end. The children are very angelic, and they wishfully believe that there is only one feeling in this world called "pleasure." But as they grow older, they find that they are far away from this feeling, and when they get close again, they may also be close to heaven. All individuals who gave us knowledge when we were children confuse our vision to varying degrees, and they will say that the truth we see is false. They never fulfilled the promise we heard. They will say, don’t ask too much for kids. It's like a fishbone choked in the throat, it never disappears, but the foreign body sensation is always there. In fact, this fishbone has been stuck in their throats, but it has been softened, and no one has really solved it. Just like the last sentence before the death of the girl who was killed by Xiaosi in "Guling Street Juvenile Murder Incident", "It turns out that you are just like them, just want to change me. I tell you, I can't be changed!" This world can't be changed by you!" So Xiao Si killed her with a dagger. She destroyed the fantasies of a pure idealist, as if trying to destroy him. There is also this kind of drama design in "Everything About Lily Zhou". The handsome boy found out that the netizens who were connected with his soul and sympathized with him were actually violent teenagers who bullied him every day. The moment his fantasy collapsed, the boy ended the life of the instigator in the chaos.
"I won't hesitate anymore, because from now on I will be truly free."
The pain that Miscanthus slashed across the back is not enough to describe the true cruelty of youth. Some of those children will sooner or later become the walking corpses they have ever despised and hated. At the age of seventeen, I have seen a little bit, but haven't experienced some. At that time, I would say that the days when I hope to become those people don't come too soon. However, there are still some adults who stubbornly ask the "rules of the game". As a result, some are kitsch, and some are still calling out the true power of the powerless. Those bad boys of the past, present and future, in fact, you and those good boys look up to the same blue sky.
"Truth belongs to mankind, and fallacy belongs to the age."

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  • Susie 2022-03-20 09:02:48

    Not as good as imagined, a period of rebellious youth is a bit painless and tepid. Although he understands what he wants to say about youth and loss, it is not profound. The final conclusion says that youth has just begun-inexplicably, I didn't see it.

  • Blaze 2022-03-18 09:01:07

    Only after watching "Bad Boy's Sky" do you understand why Kitano took part in "Xiao Wu" and Jia Zhangke. Before entering society, to be precise, before having a career, children are all the same. Kitano's autobiographical work satirizes education in the form of his familiar "manual talent", and at the same time questioned the secular moral concept of "grouping people by group". The two "bad boys" who escaped from the classroom are both saboteurs in the education system and legislators on the art stage: they emphasize order while ignoring order. In Kitano's view, the pros and cons of education are obvious. The bad side is that the norms take away human nature and possibilities; the good side is that the disciplines can prevent you from going astray. In the Shura Field, which is countless times larger than the school, all industries teach you to foul within the rules, and those who don't adapt can only be eliminated. Destiny is as problematic, and the children in class are confused and at a loss. Who doesn't yearn for a free playground? Who doesn't expect a different ending to his story? Therefore, just like "Guessing the Train" in 2009, this is ultimately a movie about choice.

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