This is a very sad story, which is embarrassing.
About this movie, all I think of is loneliness. When I saw the protagonist's life course explained at the end of the movie, I suddenly realized that the original protagonists had become lonely individuals after the end of that adventurous summer.
Wien has lived a stable life without adventures or dreams. This seems to be a very suitable trajectory for his life.
Teddy did not get rid of the influence of his native family. After his dream of enlisting in the army was shattered and spent another year in jail, the kid who once dreamed of becoming a brave warrior is now living like a stagnant pool.
Chris became a decent lawyer. Ironically, when the kid who was regarded as a problem teenager grew up and tried to persuade people with reason in an argument that had nothing to do with him, he got it. The tragic ending.
Gordy realized his dream as Chris said, but since the end of that summer, he has been lonely, and he has reached the middle of his life.
I sigh with the changes in the world, things are different, and I miss the adventure summer that belongs to the four boys. They are equally lonely, sensitive, and equally innocent and kind. They pretend to be rebellious and overbearing, but they know that they are unpopular poor guys.
One person, you can only take care of yourself, but if there are four people, you can report to the group for warmth.
When these four boys came together, what they had to do, even if it was just a boring pastime like looking for a corpse, had a little simple heroism. In what they call an adventure, they face their weakness, rebellion, entanglement, and loneliness step by step, even though they didn't intend to.
Regarding adventure, this is a very simple thing. The idea of finding the corpse and proving courage is a typical childish idea. The corpse is just a witness. It can be everything else that can be replaced. Maybe, no one Really care how he died.
But in the end, they all grew. With respect for life, buried him. This is a scene full of ritual sense. Facing the distance between life and death, precocious teenagers can feel the dignity of life and the weight of growth.
Gordy, who leaned on Chris’s shoulder and cried, moved me. No one understood that this young brother, who died because of his death, was very sensitive to the boundary between life and death. And the ones who can really comfort him are the same traumatized partners. They hug each other to warm up and lick each other's wounds. Nothing is more sad than this.
People die by nature, or die in the world, or die in the hearts of people. After that summer, the four boys all died in the vicissitudes of the world, whether physically or mentally, like the corpse they saw, they were lonely and wandering in the world.
Perhaps a little pessimistic, but from the perspective of loneliness and growth, perhaps Chris left something precious for Gordy, but it was just a consolation.
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