(Text/Yang Shiyang)
Perhaps every rock music fan will smile at this "Heavy Metal Embarrassment", more or less, these four cute and tough boys will let many fans see their shadows and recall their youth. This is a comedy, a story about a heavy metal band in a small town. In fact, it is more about dreams and reality, obstacles and persistence. You see, these contents are just clichés, or even clichés. It has been reduced to chicken soup that is elusive, but if you write in another way, everything is completely new.
Putting the protagonist in a difficult position and then turning against the wind is a typical telling mode of this kind of story. The same is true of "Heavy Metal Journey". Its outstanding feature is that it deliberately does not emphasize the resistance of these protagonists when they are misunderstood and ridiculed. These people don’t even seem to resist, but they insist on rehearsing and get together to discuss their little world. They are not frustrated or angry, but just keep on doing what they like, and they don’t give them grandeur. significance. Understand, this kind of writing about dreams is most afraid of compulsory elevation and non-stop mentioning of meaning. "Heavy Metal Journey" has always only narrated events dutifully, and meanings emerge automatically, but they are deeply moving.
The four young men are absolutely anomalous in this small town in Northern Europe. They have long hair, wear leather jackets, and play grumpy music, but they are usually gentle ordinary people. The lead singer is doing cleaning in a mental sanatorium. Gong, the bassist is a well-known librarian, the guitarist inherited his father’s career as a reindeer butcher in the family workshop, and the drummer was always eating with over-enthusiasm. These four people all have the appearance of reckless people. In fact, they are all standard "social panic sufferers." They are not good at speech, introverted and shy. This kind of aggressive music sometimes looks like a channel for them to vent, and sometimes it looks like Sharp weapons and shields are used to maintain one's delicate heart. The band, which has been rehearsing for 12 years, decided to write their own songs. By chance, they met the organizer of a large music festival, and they started to have the courage to get out of the town.
"Heavy Metal Journey" actually contains a lot of rich details. Those details come from close observation and deep understanding of real life. They are sometimes responsible for being funny, and sometimes they are used to laugh at themselves or ridicule those worldly powers. The guitarist’s father was The chainsaw cut off the middle finger and ring finger, and the hand out of it naturally became a metal gesture. The drummer was speeding time and time again and was captured by the camera. In the end, he simply used the camera to take a photo of the band’s makeup. It was provocative and humorous. , There are many such details, which together lay the natural and vivid background of this comedy, and if the surface veil of this funny and inspirational story is removed, a more classic story model can be dismantled. Its motif is actually about predicament and escape. The four members of this band live in this small town. People around are drinking beer and watching boring performances. They have fun to tease the young people in the group. These four people want to escape through music—— To be spiritually separated from the present, and the body also wants to go to a larger, more tolerant, and more tolerant place by going to the music festival. In addition, the flower shop girl who has a secret love with the lead singer, who was The men who were confined in a mental hospital but were redeemed by heavy metals are all working hard or inadvertently completing their own escape journey, fleeing from the jurisdiction of the patriarchy, fleeing from the guardianship of the hospital, in the final analysis, the core and foundation of this story is that moving people. The response and pursuit of freedom instinct.
This story is actually full of absurdity besides being hilarious and moving. It even included the terrorism threat that Northern Europe is facing today and all kinds of people’s reactions to it. Instead, it responds to the advancement of the story and smoothly completes its own functions. After all, these protagonists are just boys who have a longer adolescence than ordinary people, silently guarding their dreams, facing death, pursuing freedom, reaping love, breaking through the imprisonment, regrouping, and finally shine.
There are no real villains in "Heavy Metal Journey". Everyone is very kind. Even the young people who mocked them on weekdays expressed their sincere respect when they learned that they might go to the music festival. And envy, and the florist girl’s father, the policeman only wanted his daughter to have a stable life, and finally abandoned prejudice, and the little lie of the band’s lead singer was just to maintain self-esteem, let alone fulfill his promise in the end, so he said , This is still a story of a happy reunion. Even the coffin of the drummer who died unexpectedly was moved to the performance site by his teammates to help him fulfill his wish. Come to a consummation. It is not so much about the story of musicians chasing dreams, but rather about the growth of each person. It tells every ordinary person the attitudes they should have when facing adversity and falling into prejudice.
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