Text | Yao Xin
We have read through many European youth illustration books: "Great artists have to leave this island, and the rest are depressed and become alcoholics", the cruelly budding teenagers and music in "The Love Song of First Love"; "Oslo, 8" Anders in "May 31" is trapped in the confusion of post-adolescence; also from Finland, the crazy and persistent rock youth in "Leningrad Cowboys", which makes people laugh... European youths brewed in the beautiful scenery Personality and temperament always make people thrilled, and their situation always seems to make us feel sorry for each other:
Unwilling to mingle with everyone, instead you enjoy staying in your own room. In order to get closer to the spirit of rock stars, you have long hair, or you can form a band with your youth and frivolously, indulge in black and white movies, but Yu Yu walks alone along the way.
But you see your persistence and small dreams, being eroded and smoothed by the wind under the blowing of time, scattered in the dark adult world like burning sparks, you can't help asking:
Do the things I chase, the ones I love, really make sense to me?
With such doubts, the protagonist of "Heavy Metal Embarrassment" walked towards us from the Nordic style painting on a small bicycle. And the first soundtrack in the film that sounds like a hero has passed away, suitable for ending, laid the film's "non-mainstream" route. To call it non-mainstream does not mean that it draws a line from the mainstream crowd due to the themes of heavy metal music, but from the plot to the characters, there is a deviation from the audience's tacit understanding of heavy metal music that is full of darkness and violence, pain and death:
Turo, tall and mighty, but with her waist-length hair, is a shy male caregiver who has a crush on a florist girl, and plays the lead singer of a heavy metal band outside of work; a guitarist, heir to the reindeer slaughterhouse, has a thick beard, but has A "sexy" wavy blond hair; bassist, comparable to heavy metal Sheldon, from image to stage name, dedicated to fulfilling the spirit of heavy metal, but can only play Amway Metal music in the time of the library work; and eager to perform on stage, the experience of death is extremely rich The drummer of, sounds like an extreme heavy metal player who is "practical", but the "cause of death" seems to be reckless greed and carelessness.
Confined to a Finnish town that has never looked at them seriously, confined to the popular Finnish pop music in the small town, confined to the basement, rehearsing for 12 years, and singing for 12 years, they have never performed on stage, never Your own work. Although he inherited a heavy metal mantle, he flinched and never expressed it bravely. The four heavy metal musicians under the director's lens are not like heavy metal enthusiasts hanging on the roof, but like some young middle-aged teenagers who love heavy metal music but are very young and fresh.
The joy of heavy metal in these four young people is obviously not just a factor that makes them different and out of place. A mixed inspiration flashed, the band's first single was born, and what they were looking forward to was also their long-awaited performance opportunity at the Norwegian Heavy Metal Music Festival. The news quickly spread throughout the town, and the indifference of the residents turned into praise, and ridicule turned into high hopes. They named the band "Straight Up" and took photos of the band by speeding illegally. It is more like Taobao sellers tagging their products through search volume and exposure, and they exaggerated and proudly disguised the band's style as "post-symphony enlightenment." Record rolling reindeer blasphemy against Christian extreme warfare pagan Fenos Kandia Heavy Metal", get the car ready to go on the road frantically and fearlessly. This trip can make the band popular, and the heavy metal journey that can justify its name should have gone smoothly and lived up to expectations, but the fact is not the case.
The severe stage fright of the town’s premiere, the separation of teammates, the return of support and recognition to indifference and ridicule, those doubts once again flooded into my mind, and the deafenings: those I chase, what I love, for me, really have Does it make sense?
Finland, which ranks first in the world in the number of heavy metal bands, continues to export heavy metal culture to the world. Just like the protagonist in the film, the young people of heavy metal in Finland are not only a popular and dominant music genre, but also an opportunity for them to get out of the town. Encouraged by the florist girl, grave digging, sailing, religious beliefs, and armed conflicts all appeared in a joking and violent way under the guidance of heavy metal music, and the heavy metal spirit finally officially debuted.
Here, in "Heavy Metal Journey", the theme of heavy metal music is no longer the excessive indulge in death and pain, no longer the noisy and violent postmodern aesthetics, but the outlet of life and the catharsis of entanglement, it is release The beast under the skin is a constant trial and error that is not afraid of results.
Just like the consensus in our hearts: music is the language of the world, it has no communication barriers and no cultural cost. In "Heavy Metal Journey", heavy metal music, attitude and spirit are tacitly integrated with the minority dream story. With the tension of Finnish comedy, alternative culture is presented in the form of laughter and curse, and the music is also eliminated. Genre boundaries.
And as we have seen in the film, the guitarist is facing the reindeer stuck in the meat grinder showing a bewilderment and roar that everyone understands, Turo staged the scene of the zoo version of "Wild Hunter", and "Even if you have diarrhea, don’t live forever." "Constipation", even if it is messed up, does not hold back. The life creed that echoes the group name "Go straight to the rectum", we seem to be closer to heavy metal:
These primitive, violent, and seemingly excessive reactions and behaviors, these heavy metal scenes and moments that gain inspiration through release, or gather beliefs, are how similar to the journey of life?
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