teenager, he read Jin He Zai's novel, and there was a sentence in it: Don't die, and don't live alone. "Lonely", how gloomy and treacherous these two words are. A child in a single-parent family is lonely, and what he expects is to meet another person who can share that loneliness with him. Using these two words to describe "Never Come Near", I think it is the most appropriate.
How can you deny it? Lack of love, no friends, weak personality, often bullied, only the seeds of black belly grow quietly in the heart of the protagonist. "Scream! Scream like a pig!" When 12-year-old Oscar stood in the snow in the twilight, he kept poking at the tree in front of him with his knife, as if it was his mortal enemy. The trees won't resist, but the little boy's weak voice highlights his powerlessness.
"What are you doing?" The appearance of the girl Ellie made Oscar turn around. "I live next door to your house", "I can't be your friend". Ellie emphasized "impossible" and left. This is really confusing.
"Impossible" is relative, in fact many stories in life happen from "impossible". And Oscar and Ellie are tied together by the red thread of fate.
Oscar, a lonely 12-year-old boy. His personality is not eccentric, but he is always alone. His hobby is collecting news of various homicides in the newspapers. Waving a knife to vent his anger in the tree. He longs for friends, but has no friends. He probably doesn't know the reason for this himself.
Maybe we can talk about loneliness. It is not a very literary word, nor is it innate. The king is lonely because no one dares to despise the powerful; the murderer is lonely because he is rejected; the idealist is lonely because he is not understood; the inferior is lonely because he does not want to face life directly; Oscar is lonely because he is too ordinary, bullied, and ignored.
In a way, loneliness is far more terrifying than guilt. People who have no real experience of loneliness may not be able to understand why death is relief, nor can they understand the crying of a seemingly normal person every night.
Oscar's loneliness is passive loneliness, a loneliness longing for love. He is cowardly on the outside, doesn't know how to resist, and has an inexplicable hatred for people in private - but he hasn't put it into practice.
The second time I met Ellie, the distance between the two was obviously narrowed. A small Rubik's cube becomes the carrier of the emotional transmission of the two children. Of course Ellie is also lonely, because she is an immortal vampire, and she doesn't even have someone to communicate with except the blood collector. She said to Oscar "I can't be your friend" because of her identity. "Impossible" does not mean "I don't want to". Oscar said to her, "You smell weird." The girl said she didn't mind, but she lowered her head after the boy left.
The third time, Oscar asked Ellie "Have you never received a present?" Ellie said "no". Without friends, there are no gifts. Of course Ellie knew, but when Oscar wanted to give her the Rubik's Cube, she said, "That's yours." At that time, they had just known each other's names and were not friends.
For the fourth time, Ellie said to Oscar who was bullied, "You have to fight back". "But there are three of them," Oscar said. "Then you have to fight back harder," Ellie's eyes were firm, "I will help you." At this time, the old phlebotomist was standing in the window looking at the two children. We still don't know what he was thinking.
Oscar's way of fighting back should start at this time. Of course, there are some other emotions sprouting between the 12-year-old boy and the girl. It might be a bit inappropriate to say that, because Ellie just looks like she's only 12 years old, and no one really knows how old she is. And the "she" I used became suspicious at this point. Oscar hugged Ellie, and Ellie said something: If I wasn't a girl, would you still like me?
That's right, in not pretty words, this movie is actually about the love story of little transgender vampires. But this sentence doesn't fit at the beginning of the article, as if we shouldn't know Ellie's background from the beginning of the movie. Vampires, killings, comrades, minors... The dull feeling of the film seems to dissipate immediately. Years of viewing experience let us know that the more foreshadowing and hints, the better the ending of the film.
But since it is a horror movie, the ending of the movie is really scary enough. Before that, let's take a look at the little boy Oscar's "counterattack", which I would like to call "lonely counterattack".
"to flee is life, to linger, death" - Ellie said that leaving is freedom and staying is death. Killing is just for survival for vampires, and in the human world, there is never a lack of killing. Ellie's inner struggle and helplessness can be seen from her performance. She is not the devil because she is extremely restrained in front of her little lover. Speaking of this, I suddenly thought: you, me, everyone is very ordinary people, if one day you find that everyone ignores you, everyone hates you, then there is a person, he / she teaches you Hate the world, help you when you are in distress, and even kill or entrap your enemies, what do you think?
"So lonely!" One day, when you are crouching alone in a corner of the world, will you remember that someone once shared that loneliness with you? Ever since I was a child, I always sympathized with the villains when I watched movies, thinking about the tragic past of the so-called bad guys: what’s wrong with being out of tune with the world? Is it your fault or my fault?
When Oscar first met Ellie and asked her "Who are you?" "I'm the same as you." Ellie replied. Yes, that's right. I am like you, we are equally alone and abandoned by the world.
We watched vampire movies, with the struggle of Interview with the Vampire, the unforgettable 400 Years of Horror, the thrill of Van Helsing, and the innocence and childishness of Twilight. But there is no movie to express loneliness.
Oscar discovers Ellie's true gender inadvertently, and the wound on Ellie's body shows that "she" will stay forever at the moment she was castrated. "Be me a little," when Ellie looked at Oscar, her face became old, and the loneliness and loneliness of more than 200 years were all written in the wrinkles on her face.
Love has nothing to do with age, gender, race! 12-year-old children, can you say that they do not understand love? I'm afraid they know more and more deeply than you. One is a 200-year life, and the other is a 12-year-old heart full of anger at the world but eager to care.
Once again, Oscar finally fought back in the face of the bully, and beat the opponent severely with a stick. This resulted in a near-death at the end of the film when Oscar was retaliated against.
In the swimming pool, the teenager was pressed into the water, which was the cruelest revenge. The price of counterattack is such that there are so many cowardly people in this world. Ellie's appearance saved Oscar, but it also brought her to a point of no return. The birth of a new phlebotomist seems to be a little different from the old phlebotomist who has died-"Kiss you", 12-year-old Oscar sat on the train, his fingers tapped on the box in front of him, the window was vast The land and the blizzard, the silver wrapping of Stockholm has been far away from the world of the two since then. At that moment, I seemed to see the eyes of the old phlebotomist in the window: I can't change anything because I'm old.
Of course, I don't think that Ellie's taking Oscar is a conspiracy, and Oscar's new "blood-drawer" identity will not affect the feelings between the two children. Compared with the original book that clearly stated that the old phlebotomist was not Ellie's past lover, I prefer to see the old phlebotomist in the movie as Ellie's past lover - obviously, the director did not do this, the old phlebotomist took blood Failure, Ellie is angry, and there is no trace of emotion in it. But the old man paid a lot. He disfigured himself before he was caught, and before he died, he was willing to be Ellie's last supper... He said, "Don't go to that boy," with jealousy or something else in his tone.
"Never Come Near" won the highest award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008, the Best Nordic Film Award at the 2008 Gosenberg Film Festival and the Kodak Best Cinematography Award. In 2008, it really surprised the world. Although there is not much comparison with "Twilight", it has to be said that "Twilight" has been quite bloody since the second part.
To say a few more words, in about half an hour of the film, the moment Oscar picked up the Rubik's Cube from the snow, the light control of the film was really perfect, and the boy's face was very soft on the screen.
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