In fact, I knew about this movie more than a year ago and wanted to watch it desperately. The reason is that the plot introduction is too attractive-the kind of wandering, confused and helpless mood output between words.
Therefore, I also developed a strong curiosity about Cai Mingliang's works, and even bought his collections to read, and learned about his unusual personality.
The first movie I watched was "Long Live Love", and I felt that the style of painting was very similar to Kim Ki-deok's movies: they were all full of calm atmosphere, lacking the dream-making sense of the movie, but like a fly that was shot to death on the wall Life is boring. Yes, it's really boring. But this is the kind of film that finally won the Venice Grand Prix.
Later, I learned about "Your Face", a film made for the French embassy, and I was very impressed that there was a woman in the film who used up a whole roll of black tape. Naturally, such a long and tedious film was not popular with audiences.
Also because of the attractiveness of the plot introduction, I also learned about "The Unbreakable", which described the scene of the old cinema the day before its closure, as well as "Dark Circles", which was lost in a foreign country, and "The Hole", which also won an international award. Although I don't see him much, but I have a grasp of his understanding.
Moreover, this director, he has never changed actors. That's right, it's such a long-term relationship, and the male protagonist is always Li Kangsheng.
And the origin of his encounter with Li Kangsheng is also so dramatic. To put it simply: Li Kangsheng was "picked up" by Cai Mingliang from the amusement park.
And this "Youth Nezha" is the result of the first chemical reaction between the two after the young Li Kangsheng was discovered by Cai Mingliang, who was the first guide. Perhaps it was God's will that the film shined and made Tsai Ming-liang famous.
From the point of view of plot alone, "Youth Nezha" is a very nonsensical, even incomplete movie. But this is an emotional movie after all. Therefore, from the perspective of artistic conception and other aspects to experience the feeling, this movie has already won more than half of it.
In many people's teenage years, there has been a wet stage in the heart.
Full of desire for sex, crazy temptation to the adult world, wanting to do irresponsible bad things, even sneaking out for a night without going home...
Teenagers are like this.
There were cockroaches stabbed to death on the table by Xiaokang with a compass, the pornographic video that was constantly playing on the hotel TV, the wet and cloudy teenagers and motorcycles, and the scantily clad girls.
These young people who are not utopians should touch and talk about things, but maybe the utopia of this society is too full to accommodate so many people. Neglected teenagers are always depressed and inexplicably restless, and the hormones of puberty make them prone to anger.
So their youth became like this, accompanied by the smell of sexual fluid and blood, living in such a city that was always damp and gloomy.
If you've ever been sad, you'll love this movie.
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