Once more movies are written on such a theme, they will write the dreams of this group of people as extremely unrealistic. A person who has just been robbing and stealing for food is instantly ignited by a dream and becomes incomparably noble. Or, he is uncontrollably exaggerating the suffering and sorrow of a class, forcing people to reflect on the social system from a populist perspective. unfair.
In fact, if you really want to shoot such a subject well, you must put the perspective in a plain way. To normalize their suffering and their dreams, not just look at this class with a curious attitude. They are not alien specimens independent of "normal society", but people who also live around us.
"Mist and Pete Must Lose" describes the dream story of a bottom man. What's more difficult is that it's almost a children's play. The protagonists are two children of ethnic minorities. Black Mister and Korean boy Pete. Their mother was a drug addict, unemployed, living on welfare and living in a neighborhood full of street crime. Pete's mother had no time to take care of her son, and put him in foster care at the Misters home. One day, Mist's mother was taken away by the police. In order not to be sent to a child welfare home, Mist and Pete start their own lives. They dealt with the patrolling police, trying to get food, stealing other people's relief cards... Always, Mist never forgot his dream, he was going to Beverly Hills to audition for an actor in a drama.
The film designed a structure that echoes the beginning and the end. Initially, Mist left school and returned to the dilapidated block after arguing with the teacher because of his poor grades. But before he left, he took the audition advertisement from the school's locker box and kept it on his body. In a sense, it is the intermediary between him and the "civilized world". He lives humbly on the streets with a high crime rate, stealing, cheating, and robbing for a bite of food every day, but he has never forgotten his dream of becoming an actor. At times, he devoted himself to imitating scene after scene, which became his brief escape from harsh reality.
Almost all the characters in this film are full of mutilations, violent drug dealers, ruthless policemen, mentally handicapped people who are instigated to be thieves, and unkind convenience store owners... Against their background, these two children Although he occasionally breaks through the bottom line in order to survive, his heart has always been filled with a sense of morality. Mist is given a positive image by the director. He understands the boundaries of justice, fairness and law, and how to adapt to the hot and cold world. He is also at a loss when faced with desperate situations, but he never despairs.
That's the beauty of this type of American film. They describe an outlawed land, a moral wasteland, but never set any overlooked perspective or deliberately exaggerate the rampant crime and the underprivileged. There are many such examples, such as the remake of the famous American drama "Shameless Family", which perfectly reflects this tradition of American film and television dramas. The instinct to strive upwards. They want to get out of this class and have dreams of striving for a better life. Similarly, in the film "Mist and Pete Must Lose", children at the bottom have the same efforts, abandonment, wavering and perseverance as those glossy middle-class people. The only thing that can be avoided is the attitude of complaining and breaking the jar, and there is absolutely no unrealistic glory of elevating human nature.
Mist eventually went to the audition site. After learning that there was no agent and no parents to accompany, the interviewer reluctantly told Mist after expressing sympathy that there was nothing she could do. This is another true description. The real logic of this world is that sympathy is sympathy, and rules are rules. The director has always avoided the bloody trend caused by the overflow of sympathy. And the movie still gives a relatively warm tail after all. Mist eventually returned to school, and the teacher asked to write about what he had experienced over the summer. As a representative of the middle class, the teacher gave examples to the students and talked about the themes of travel and birthday parties. And Mister confidently wrote the story of survival that summer.
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