People will "die" many times, like the end of every journey. Childhood is dead, it is a teenager; a teenager is dead, it is a youth... These phased deaths in the journey of life will be burned in our minds. Years later, when you look at the photos of traveled far away or stare at yourself in the mirror, the past will always reappear. Thinking back to those playmates and stupid things, you will laugh and cry.
Growth is a compulsory course for every death and rebirth in life. This "knowledge" is continuously transmitted in the body and time to help us complete each inadvertent transformation. One death is the beginning of one rebirth, one rebirth heralds the next death, and so on, until the flesh is exhausted and there is only nostalgia.
Unfortunately, this nostalgia is really only remembered after death. When the poet died, he remembered the homesickness; the singer died, and wanted to listen to that song; the actor died, and he thought of the role; the director died, and he would go and watch those old movies... When you learn about your playmate Dead, it was rekindled in the mind of you who was sitting in your mind once again when you were a teenager, even though it is so ordinary.
"Along with Me" is such a film about the growth of young people in the context of death. Its good thing is that it is difficult for many youth films to escape its shadow. The adult teenage playmate died accidentally, reminding writer Gordy of an adventure with three buddies during the summer vacation at the age of 12-ordinary teenagers from four troubled families left home for two days and went along the railway to find another one in the legend The corpse of the young man wants to be a hero and get rid of the difficulties they face.
For me, who is accustomed to complicated movies, "Along with Me" is too simple but I like it very much. A straightforward record of an adventure of four children with different personalities. They flashed trains, ran viaducts, crossed puddles, spent the night in the wild, and faced the challenges of older children. These small problems that older children completed in a short while driving the car were magnified several times by the simplicity of the teenagers. Those who have never walked out of the small town, the weird ideas in their minds stem from their fear of the outside world. When they walked outside, they found out that the evil dog at the waste station in the legend is actually very ordinary, and he can also make older children. Fear of shrinking.
After experiencing the hardships of the journey and finally finding the bloody corpse just like them, the four of them did not have the excitement of being a hero, but were silent for a long time. Inadvertently, they completed the adventure, confirming that the death of a teenager also announced the end of their teenage years, and also completed their farewells to each other. They are just passersby passing by each other in a flash, pulling and growing up with each other before separation.
In the movie, Gordy said: "We only left for two days, but when we came back we felt that the town had changed and become smaller." It's like many years later, when you return to the elementary school campus, you can't run to the end when you are young. The playground has become so narrow. And the little classmates who you pushed me to reunite can hardly be reunited except for appearing in the old photos.
Looking back at myself, I admire the pure teenagers. They are ordinary and simple. Everyone has "hidden" a lot of unspoken secrets to keep the youthful and innocent youth.
Thinking back to that movie again, it's like many years later, when you met your childhood "born to death" playmates at the intersection, you just greeted them politely, and then left each, wishing that no one would think of another.
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