Beautiful and innocent

I really like the little cool brother Ricky in the film. In his deformed family, such a staid father who is full of "rules and order" can press his mother into a living wooden clay sculpture, but he secretly lives so well. Delicious. He smokes marijuana, not to mention it, but also sells it, so he became a successful juvenile drug dealer, well connected, and saved a full 40,000 yuan when he was a teenager. He knows how to pretend to behave, and he knows how to deal with his stodgy father. He knows how to use words to greet his father’s mind. If that’s all, he can only be said to be a wicked kid, but he knows beauty very well. He uses DV to record the beauty he encounters at any time. In his eyes, The dead pigeons are beautiful, the plastic bags dancing in the wind are beautiful, and the girl next door who is gloomy all day is also beautiful. Under his lens, life presents a unique vitality. Everything seems to have life. The real life is surrounded by people who oppress themselves. Everyone is lifeless and lives by inertia, instead of being full of beauty. It is the seemingly ordinary but ubiquitous small objects, as if the real vitality has been sucked away by them, leaving behind the human seemingly high but most empty body.

Indeed, in this movie, we are shown some

vainly high lives: middle-aged employee Lebster, who drives a Toyota car and lives in a big house all day long in suits and leather shoes, but under the glamorous appearance is gradually fading. Lebster’s family life and seeing the dirty and degraded workplace; Lebster’s wife Carolyn, a seemingly successful real estate agent, a strong woman, obviously hates and despises her husband, secretly affair with others, but keeps on working hard Create an elegant, harmonious and interesting family surface; the

girl Angela brags about her rich sexual experience all day long, never forgets to seduce every man she meets with beauty, and admits that she is still a virgin when things happen. The image fell apart for a while, and she also showed her fragility and loneliness in front of people for the first time. The narcissistic and arrogant expression in front of people actually did not originate from the extreme fear in her heart. She could say loudly, "At least I am not ugly at all." Secretly wondering what else I can have besides beauty;

Ricky’s father has followed the rules all his life, and he has also formulated untouchable rules for his family’s relatives. Under the surface of his extremely disgusting homosexuality, he has been distorted for a lifetime of authenticity. When he misunderstands that his son is homosexual, his desires follow. An outburst of grief and indignation, he sent his sacrifice to the other party-the old man next door who "ugly defiled his son". I believe his heart is full of relief at this time, a sense of relief only once in his life.

Since when did that little Anqi with a sweet smile and chubby voice and fat arms begin to lock herself in her room all day long, she said "leave me alone", hoping to not have to talk to her parents except for meals. Meet and talk; since when did that beautiful, crisp, romantic and enthusiastic charming girl learn to smirk, and care about the 4,000-dollar brand-name Italian sofa more than a beautiful intimate contact; and since when As soon as the relatives sitting at the same dining table could only wait in silence, the air was so stagnant that no soft music could be inserted.

Perhaps, at the moment Lebster saw his daughter’s classmate Angela, his pursuit of beauty began to awaken, but no one had ever told him that the beauty that really belonged to him was the beauty that he had skipped before he died. In the past, he almost forgot how to remember and ask for it. Fitness, resignation, and tit-for-tat confrontation with the indifferent wife are positive and changeable, but also painful and hurtful.

It is Lebster's daughter Janie who is much lucky, because she met Ricky and had the opportunity to fall in love with someone who truly understands beauty. Two people watch Ricky's DV works together. It is about to snow, and a plastic bag is dancing solo in the wind, very happy and urgent, as if a child is urging others to play with him. There is so much beauty in life that it is even unbearable. When people face-to-face but are so indifferent, the beauty of life takes advantage of the emptiness and has the opportunity to completely defeat the overwhelmed soul. Beauty is innocent, and the crime lies with people.

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