A kind of youth called gloomy ---- see Cai Mingliang's "Youth Nezha"

Mercedes 2022-03-20 09:02:55

I do not know why at this time, in an inopportune time, to see a film called "green
juvenile us" movie. If we say that to see "The Accidental Spy," "first intimate contact" such as fire
burst and selling films can I find a reason to justifiably criticize others ---- and later can be on the bbs
curse go. But what about "Youth Nezha"? Is it because of Huang Shujun? Or Cai Mingliang?

Remember that this title was first in Huang Shujun's archives: he had
composed music for films such as "Youth Nezha", "The Lonely Heart Club", etc., and won the 29th Golden Horse for "Youth Nezha" in 1992 Award
for Best Film Music. Later I learned that the director of the film was Cai Mingliang, who had written and directed "Long Live Love". I
have seen a comment that his film is a film that confronts the reality of Taiwanese people. I've always wanted to see it. In
that, with two curious: Huang Shujun What kind of music will be accompanied? What kind of people will Cai Mingliang photograph?
into this movie.

At the beginning, the two scenes switched alternately:

on a dark night with heavy rain, A Ze and A Bin slipped into the telephone hall, opened the coin box with an electric drill, stole
the coins inside , and ran into the arcade room in Ximending...
at the same time. Xiaokang was reading in his room, preparing for the entrance exam, but was absent-minded. Seeing
a cockroach crawling across the floor , he picked up the compass, prodded the cockroach, and pinned it to the table. Then took it from the window
and threw it out the door, but found that it would only cockroaches posted on the outside of the glass. He wanted to pat it down, but hit the
broken glass cut his hand ......

so movie titles appear. Huang Shujun's music appeared. A curious landed. It turned out to be the
prelude to "Who Am I ". In that low and decadent music, in the dim blue light of the morning, A
Ze and A Bin drove home on their motorcycles.

This music and this time the light and color constitute the entire movie theme and tone, and theme music pass
through continuous development, variations, six, seven times to reproduce, put a few youths at the broken messy living
space series together.

Do not think this can be a thug Taiwan, Causing loss of lives with a bunch of bloody shot to bake
great image of a juvenile delinquent sloppily care of. There is not much violence and blood in it, and all the shots
are focused on the depressing and gloomy lives of those teenagers, as well as the details and bizarre
intersections they have experienced in their lives . And Tsai Ming-liang deeper intention is clearly not a simple performance, but a question: them
what to encounter that kind of life?

Cai Mingliang didn't seem to want to give a so-called answer, or he didn't have an answer either.
However, the title of the film couldn't help but make me think it was a metaphor, "The person Nezha hates the most is his
father Li Jing". In the nearly 120 minutes, Xiaokang only said three words, none of which was to his
father. One of the episodes: His father drives a taxi. Once I picked him up from class, I
told him on the way that I wanted to take him to the movies. "I have not had to see the movie. A child, your mother and I often
take you to the movies, remember?" Well-off with a strange look back at the head of his father's inquiry
light. Movie here becomes a way of communication, and alienation between the two generations, has long structure
built up walls of hostility.

However, another thread without the image of the father told me that such a gap is not only between two generations.
Azer's kitchen often gets water into the sewer pipes. He tried to block the pipes with a towel, but it did
n't work. So he slowly got used to walking numbly in the room full of water. Cai Mingliang uses special
Write to describe such a detail, not to bad performance humble house and living environment, and
points to the hero's inner world. Beneath the calm exterior, there is a
constant overflow of feelings that cannot be channeled due to estrangement , until one day, people finally turn a blind eye to such a flood. They want the anti-
anti wanted to get rid of this dilemma, but it has no direction. The girl Agui asked Aze: "Take me out of this
place!" "Where do you want to go?" "What about you?" "I don't know"... The

last scene is black: Xiaokang goes to make friends on the phone . But when he sat before the desk phone to hear the electrical
time constant, then the bell rang, he deadpanned no response. After drinking the drink in
his hand in a very strange gesture , he turned away. The outside world is a dark blue sky...

Maybe I shouldn't watch this movie because I just feel depressed after watching it. I listened to
the whole song "Who Am I" . It was probably in this film that Huang Shujun brewed his darkest ideas
and melody so far . Two years later, he shaped it and put it into the album "Who Am I". However,
Huang Shujun , who studied classical music , played the prelude variation in the film vividly and interacted with the film, comparing
his later songs into almost bright works. So I turned dark and there is a sense of the collapse of Joy
Division's "permanent" took out, listen to "love will tear us apart", Jane
straight to die depressed.

However, if I was given another chance, between those harmless movies and "Teenage Nezha"
, I would still choose the latter without hesitation. Because it gives me a chance, a state of mind, on the run
to avoid and face up between this world, how to select and face.


Wed Jan 10 20:34:49 2001

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Rebels of the Neon God quotes

  • Hsiao-Kang: Hi, Dad.

    Mother: You actually remembered to come home. So where were you the last few days? You are too much. You are getting out of hand.

    Father: He's not coming in!

  • Ah Kuei: I think I'm the unlucky one.

    Ah Tze: Why?

    Ah Kuei: Because I met you. I woke up last night all alone in the hotel room. Do you know what that feels like? I've never felt like that in my life.