"If I want to whistle, I will blow" and Romania’s "April Three Weeks and Two Days" in the previous two years, "Love When the World Collapses", "12:8 East of Bucharest", and "Nothing to Trust" and other films, in Many film festivals have won awards and are known as the "Romanian New Wave." This is also a fresh and powerful creative wave of Eastern European films that ushered in after the 1990s. These works have different styles, but all have outstanding personalities. A generation of young directors.
The film is adapted from the stage play of the same name. It tells the story of a young Silviu who can finish his sentence in five days, but because he is worried that his elder brother will be taken to Italy by his mother who comes back suddenly, he takes risks and resorts to violent means to try to prevent it from happening. In just five days, freely encountering hormones, it was a mess.
The hero of the film Silviu is played by the amateur actor George Pistereanu. According to director Florin Serban: He has the ability to "close your eyes" and has a very jerky side, so his performance is very direct. Indeed, as a consistent method of New Wave movies, the film also boldly uses new faces. Although he is a new actor, the actor's performance is remarkable, especially in the kidnapping part of the second half of the film. The actor's performance erupted with emotions in this kidnapping scene, full of tension. A large number of hand-cranked shots were also used during the filming to follow the natural movement of the actor's head and shoulders. This technique also allows the audience to blend in with Silviu and feel the depression and struggle in prison together with Silviu. This is also a feature of the film's distinctive personality.
Due to Romania’s historical evolution, the Romanian "Golden Age" under Ceausescu’s administration has been repeatedly described in many Romanian New Wave films. In reflection, some works still describe that period as a terrifying and absurd centralization politics. Therefore, many people think that the film “implies the psychological impact of the great changes in Eastern Europe on Romanians”. Indeed, in the late period of Ceausescu’s personal dictatorship, the Romanian economy became increasingly depressed. In 1989, the Timisoara incident ignited the fuse of the Romanian revolution. President Ceausescu and his wife were shot and the Romanian Communist regime officially fell. . However, democratization did not immediately bring about the improvement of Romania's economy. Due to the transition to a market economy, the unemployment rate has risen, and the people's living standards have not improved. Some people still miss the time of Ceausescu or lay flowers to his tomb. Romania has a large population of people working in other developed regions in Europe. The Italian where Silviu's mother is going to take her young son is mentioned in the film as the first choice for Romanians to work. At the same time, it is precisely because of the large number of adult workers who go out to work, the education problem of young people is increasingly worrying, and it has gradually evolved into a social problem. Therefore, people's interpretation of the film's attempt to reflect the social reality of Romania is not unreasonable.
However, the director Serban does not approve of this interpretation. He believes that the film wants to arouse people's thinking about what kind of world these children are in and let them lose their freedom prematurely. The reason for this interpretation may be because the film lacks strong dramatic tension or profound ideological connotation. However, in fact, the film does not lack many shining points: the young Silviu has a youthful yearning and young impulse, but he The life attitude of being bold and doing whatever one wants, but it is touching. When he tried to whistle back to his dear brother, the other party did not look back. The kind of loss is the scar of the unrecovered dream of freedom in the heart of the teenager, and it is also the violent hijacking that he later staged under the birth of youth hormones. The initiator of a romantic date. When Silviu kisses his beloved girl Ana and strode to the cruel fate known to him in the second half of his life, the monotonous roads, the empty sky, and the quiet world seem to open his arms in the sound of his footsteps, indicating his heart. His calmness and freedom, even though a police siren cut through the sky, taking away the last trace of warmth in our hearts. Since then, the chariots and horses clamored and the world continued to rotate, as if this cruel scene had never happened.
If the audience can use a calm heart to follow Silviu to experience the depression of those teenagers facing the loss of freedom, the anxiety of deprivation of love, the ups and downs of his tense and sensitive nerves in the abnormally depressed prison, and finally caused by the impulse of youth The violence and the unprovoked romance of this one-and-a-half-hour movie are actually not a bowl of warm water. Because the minds of those directors who try to speak truthfully are all in it. If you want to come to the adult world, you may never have the innocence and permissiveness of "I want to whistle".
PS: From 2007 to 2008, the author conducted several trainings for juvenile delinquents in Beijing, and also recorded programs with them in the uncensored prison. There have been many face-to-face meetings with these teenagers of my age. get in touch with. Apart from lectures, I talked about things and opened my heart even more. Young people should take the cloud in their minds. Their open-mindedness and unrestrainedness of "I want to whistle" and the collision with the reality of being deprived of freedom are exactly what touches my heartstrings the most. The experience of communicating with them and writing to Feihong made me feel more about this film.
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