In my opinion, what really represents the term "youth" is in junior high school, that is, a person's 13 to 16 years old. This period is the stage when a person changes from a teenager to an adult. From ignorance and ignorance to the beginning of human affairs, emotions and minds also gradually mature at this stage. Growth at this stage will often determine the destiny of a person in his later life, but unfortunately Yes, few film and television works can cast their eyes on this stage of life.
Although it is rare, it does not mean there is no. The American movie "Heartbreaking Past", released in 2004, is the finest among this minority. It locks the lens on a young boy when he was 13 years old, the first time of his youth.
In 1973, teenager Tommy ushered in his 13-year-old. Although his father's death and mother's depression made him very sensible since childhood, it did not prevent him from enjoying his carefree and beautiful youth. In his part-time work and life outside of school, the lively and cheerful Tommy became close friends with the mentally handicapped Papappas who is much older than him. The two of them are inseparable every day, making trouble together, saving money together, in order to buy the long-awaited store in the store. Green bicycle.
13 years old is also a period of human enlightenment. Tommy, who is ignorant of love, met the first girl who made his heart beat, but he didn’t dare to express himself. Fortunately, he also met his life mentor, who was imprisoned. The black lady in the detention center. Through a window, Tommy accepted love guidance from adults, so that he tasted the sweetness of love for the first time when his youth began.
Like all normal story routines, there should be a turning point in the plot at this point, but this turning point is a bit too cruel for a 13-year-old boy. His studies ended, his love disappeared, and his relatives left. The heartbroken Tommy came to the wall of the detention center and cried to the black lady, but what was ushered in was the scolding from the other side. With the suggestion of the black lady, Tommy finally made up his mind to escape, escape from New York, escape from life, and escape from his youth.
A few years later, Tommy’s son living in Paris also celebrated his 13th birthday. Tommy told his wife and children the story that happened when he was 13 years old. With the encouragement of his wife, Tommy renewed Go back to New York City, where I have been away for a long time, to regain everything I met and had when I was young.
Bob Dylan sang in "Gone with the Wind": "How many roads must a person travel to become a man", a person's growth may be ten years or ten days, and here In the film, Tommy’s growth took twenty minutes. The beauty of youth in the first half further reflects the cruelty of growing pains. For ordinary people, if they encounter such a change when their minds are not yet mature, and become outcasts of society, they will grow into a beast in all likelihood, but fortunately, Tommy has his own life mentor and his best. Friends, they are the angels in his life, pulling him out of the quagmire and letting him go the way a man should go.
If it is a general youth film, then this film may only show the beauty of youth in the first half, and the cruel growth in the second half, but the film does not stop there. Its excitement can be described by a line from "The Great Master" Expression: "Looking back at the old ape hanging seal, Guanai is looking back". After escaping his youth for many years, Tommy returned to New York, returned to the city that gave him sweetness and broke his heart, to regain his youthful memories.
In this film, the story of the "Salt Pillar" in the Bible is mentioned many times. The story of the "Salt Pillar" itself is about Lot's life when he led his family to flee the city of Sodom, which was plagued by God. The wife couldn't help but glanced back. She was surrounded by salt falling from the sky and turned into a pillar of salt. When this story first appeared in the movie, it was in Tommy's religious class. Tommy tore off the pages of the Bible and threw them out of the window. And when he came back decades later, the gray-haired Papappas showed the pages of the book he had thrown away in front of it, and Tommy picked up the one of "Salt Pillar" casually. On the pages of the book, there are still graffiti from the past. A man holding lightning like a god said: I told you not to look back.
Don’t look back, this is Tommy’s graffiti back then, and it is also like a flattery to himself. When he was young and ignorant, he felt that it was silly to look back, but when he reached middle age, his life experience told him that it takes the courage to look back. one thing. When you look back with enough courage, you will know how precious everything you once had is.
Family affection, friendship and love are things that accompany a person's life and motivate a person's life. Time can change everything. Tommy turns from an ignorant kid to the editor-in-chief of a magazine, a mentally handicapped Papappas into a gentle and wise old man, and a building into a green space, but what cannot be changed is a person. Good memories of youth, gratitude and nostalgia for family, friendship and love.
A boy must leave to come back as a man. This is what the black lady said when he saw Tommy again decades later. These words are like the common principles we are accustomed to, but they still make people shed tears in the film. This world is full of hardships and dangers, but fortunately there are mothers, black ladies, and Papupas who pushed Tommy at a critical time, allowing him to find true freedom, and because of them, Tommy is dreaming. , Go back to my hometown again. How many roads does one have to travel to become a man? Since the answer is in the wind, let me look for it in the wind, but I will not get lost in the wind again, because there are those who I love and those who love me, who always send signals on the ground to show me the direction of home.
In this film, Anton Yeltsin, who played the young Tommy, and Robin Williams, who played Tommy’s best friend Papappas, both old and young have now passed away. This also makes the film look particularly embarrassing now. The world is evil and dangerous, and things are impermanent. It is the greatest luck to meet someone in your life who agrees with you and points you to the direction.
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