Hope that one day you can tear down the wall and see more suns in the bigger world.
Wallflower is a kind of stubborn herbaceous plant that can live on old walls, rock layers or mine surfaces. Originally it was a girl who was sitting in a corner at a dance or party and no one cared about it. Later, it refers to the lonely, introverted person who can't get along with everyone!
The beginning of the film is a long and dimly yellow tunnel. I don't know where to go, and the lights keep flashing in front of my eyes, like that period of adolescence that doesn't know the direction of the future and is disturbed.
This is a film about the pain and growth of adolescence. The film is presented through two lines, involving various issues such as "school bullying", "drug use", "sexual orientation" and "childhood obscenity". The bright line mainly tells how the male protagonist Charlie stepped out of the gloom of the past, opening up his heart to accept others and forgiving himself; while the dark line explains the hidden character Aunt Helen’s life caused by Charlie’s fragmented memories of his childhood. Influence.
Charlie is a sensitive, timid and autistic high school student. He even felt that high school life was just 1385 tormented days and nights. When I was a child, on Christmas Day, Aunt Helen had a car accident on the way to get him a birthday present. This thing lingered in his mind like a nightmare, and he always had some strange hallucinations ever since. When he first entered high school, the introverted Charlie couldn't make any friends at school. He was like a backlit wall flower, no one cared about in the dark corner until he met the brothers and sisters Patrick and Sam.
Patrick is a gay. His secret lover is Brad, the most popular captain on the school football team. Although the two like each other, Brad has no courage to make their relationship public. So even if they met in the corridor of the library, the two had to pretend not to know each other. Unlike Brad, Patrick is not shy about revealing his identity in front of his friends. He is confident, free and easy, witty and humorous, and looks unpretentious at all. Many people in the school call him "Nothing", but he doesn't care at all, and will laugh at the other party for "not creative at all, still talking about that old-fashioned joke." He will paint on his face with a watercolor pen. Putting fake beards to imitate the teacher in class (when other senior students are bullying the freshman, he teases the teacher), and threatens the teacher at the end of the manual class, "If you don’t pass me, you will pay it back next semester. You have to teach me."
Sam is Patrick's half-sister. This beautiful girl has a rebellious character and longs for freedom, as if she was born with a spotlight, and has many things that Charlie Gerry didn't have. At the same time, she was very thoughtful. Charlie told her about her friend's suicide. She instantly realized that he might have no other friends. However, under the seemingly strong appearance, there is a scarred, sensitive and fragile heart. At the age of 11, her father's boss took her "first kiss." She longs to be loved, but always meets people who don't care about her.
At the school dance, Charlie, who had no partner, stood alone in a dark corner with a wine glass. Looking at Sam and Patrick in the middle of the dance floor, they were enjoying the music and lights, dancing wildly. It seems that after a mental struggle, Charlie poured himself a sip of wine, his awkward body followed the beat, and walked slowly into the dance floor like a cockfight.
The boy’s bravery was rewarded, and that night, Charlie attended Patrick’s party. When Patrick was holding a wine glass and welcoming him with his friends, he seemed to understand what Mr. Anderson said: "You should learn to participate."
After the party, on the way to send Charlie home, three young people suddenly heard a beautiful rock song in the car, but no one knew the name of the song. Sam suggested going to the tunnel, but Charlie didn't know why. Under Sam's soft and hard foam, Patrick changed the direction of the car.
When the crazy and rebellious girl got out of the car, stood at the rear of the car with arms outstretched, accompanied by the unknown "Tunnel Song", "flying in the wind" in the tunnel of light and shadow, Charlie felt it for the first time in his life Here comes the sense of belonging. "I feel infinite!"
One night when he went home, Charlie found out that his sister Candace was arguing with her boyfriend. During the fierce quarrel, her boyfriend slapped her sister. Charlie angrily wanted to stand up for his sister, but Candice prevented him from telling anyone. This matter has been haunting Charlie's mind, and he suddenly thought of Sam and Aunt Helen, who had also been with some people who didn't care about them.
——"Why do nice people choose the wrong people to date?" (Why do great people choose the wrong people to date?)
——"We accept the love we think we deserve." (He thought he was only worthy of that kind of person.)
Soon, high school life is about to pass. Patrick and Sam have both received college admissions invitations. Charlie was able to bravely raise his hand in class. The once "wallflower boy" finally began to get rid of the dark and dampness. The corners spread towards the sun.
However, in terms of love, he still didn't learn to take the initiative, all those ambiguous emotions were hidden in a small tape or a melancholy book of poems, and they were given to Sam. But Sam didn't know about it, after all, Charlie had never dated her.
The night before Sam was about to leave, Charlie stayed to help her pack her bags. Thinking of his previous bad relationship experiences, Sam suddenly felt that he was so small that he couldn't catch anyone.
——"Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing?" (Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing?"
——"We accept the love we think we deserve." ((Because) we only accept the love we think we deserve).
Sam can't help but ask Charlie, why don't you ask me? It turned out that she also liked Charlie, but Charlie's stagnation made her think that no one likes herself with a bad past. "You can't just set there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love." ) Looking at Sam, who had been secretly in love for a long time, Charlie finally couldn't help kissing him.
Originally thought that Charlie had been able to walk out of the gloom of the past calmly, but when Sam and Patrick were driving away from the car, Charlie was a little out of control, and he found that in the end, he was still alone. (Always, when he was alone, the memory always came to be particularly ferocious.)
He returned home in a daze, and the painful memories that had happened before his eyes emerged at this moment-the dispute between his sister and her boyfriend, the break between Patrick and her boyfriend, the car accident of Aunt Helen...
An emotional rainstorm hit him like a bullet, and he desperately tried to hold back his sadness, "Don't cry! Don't cry!" But the huge wave of memories drowned him, and at that moment, Charlie broke down. . He walked into the kitchen and looked at the fruit knife lying on the cutting board.
In childhood, Aunt Helen once lived in their home because of emotional dissatisfaction, and molested him at an age when Charlie was still ignorant of innocence. Later, Aunt Helen's car accident left a huge shadow on Charlie. On the one hand, he hated the trauma she brought to him. On the other hand, he felt sad for her death, and even blamed himself for it.
At the end of the film, Charlie finally solved his knot with the help of the doctor, and Sam and Patrick also came back from school to visit him. In the cool summer night, the three people drove to the tunnel. The song "Heroes" that they had been looking for for a long time was placed loudly outside the car. Charlie got to the back of the car and learned that Sam opened his arms in the tunnel, feeling youthful crazy. "And in this moment, I swear! we are infinite"
Through the dim light and the long tunnel, we will have an infinite sky.
Written by: Yizhai; Picture: "Wallflower Boy";
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