I tried to recall the video, typing these words on my phone.
On a rainy night, Xiaokang, who was preparing to take the university entrance exam, bored a cockroach with a compass; in another place in Taipei, A Ze, who was about the same age as Xiaokang, brought his buddy to steal, and went straight into the game hall to play a game. overnight!
However, the beginning of the film does not tell the two groups of characters whose names are who!
It can even be said that the protagonists at the beginning of the film are not these two groups of characters, but the background sound: the sound of rain.
The sound of rain engulfed the two groups of characters everywhere!
Among other things, the opening cross-cut reminds me of Hitchcock's "Stranger on a Train."
The beginning of Xi Fatt's film foreshadows that the two protagonists will eventually meet.
The beginning of the film "Youth Nezha" also heralded that the two protagonists will eventually meet.
Both films are dual-leader models, which Hollywood often uses. Either the two protagonists fight against each other and represent different values, and often the correct value wins in the end; or the two protagonists attract and help each other, and finally complete a certain task together!
But this film slipped in a direction that we were very surprised by!
After introducing Xiaokang and Aze (remind again that their names are not introduced at the beginning of the video).
The next morning, Azer rode a motorcycle to bid farewell to his friends and returned home. I met Agui, a girl who just finished having sex with her brother (as written in the script). A Gui catches up with A Ze and asks A Ze to take her to the work place on a motorcycle. Azer agreed. So far, we believe that A Gui and A Ze will be together like other Hollywood films, but what kind of couple is this! Ah Gui just finished having sex with Ah Ze's brother!
At the crossroads, A Ze, who was carrying A Gui on a motorcycle, and Xiao Kang, who took his father's broken taxi to the cram school, met unexpectedly!
Note the visual contrast of the whizzing motorcycle and the broken taxi here.
Xiaokang seems to be attracted by Azer whose life is completely different from himself, just as we expected.
But, what kind of character is Azer?
Did you find that A Ze's only parental brother in "Youth Nezha" did not appear in the film, we only know that his room was next to A Ze, and he had a one-night stand with A Gui.
We can think that the lack of parenthood is what led to Azer's confusion, such as stealing!
But Xiaokang's family is complete, he has a father and a mother.
Although this family is still living in the past, or this is a standard traditional Chinese family.
As the film continues to develop, I can say that even in a well-off family, parents are missing, although his parents have always appeared as secondary characters in the film!
Why do you say this way?
Because of the estrangement between the parents and Xiaokang, for example, Xiaokang and his parents have withdrawn the tuition fees of the cram school without discussing; the mother mistakenly thought that Xiaokang was the reincarnation of Nezha, and Xiaokang actually pretended to be Nezha and pretended to be a ghost in front of his mother. From this aspect, Xiaokang's parenthood is also missing, and he cannot use his parents as idols to learn traditional things from them in order to adapt to the surrounding society.
Therefore, Xiaokang and Azer are the same. They all need idols. In the film, totems about idols often appear, most notably the posters of Schwarzenegger in "The Terminator" hanging in the arcade.
Back to that intersection again the next morning. Xiaokang and A Ze met, Xiaokang looked closely at A Ze who was carrying A Gui, but his eyes fell on A Ze.
Azer has also become a well-off idol.
How did Xiaokang learn from his idol? People with two different values in Hollywood films often compete or learn from each other. At a glance of the film, Xiaokang and Azer live completely different lives, and it seems that their values are also different.
Xiaokang withdrew the money for the cram school (without discussing it with his parents in advance), and used the money to follow Aze, but he did not go home for a few days.
We were shocked by what Xiaokang did next. Xiaokang stayed at the same hotel where Azer and Agui had a tryst, and deliberately destroyed Azer's motorcycle and even rode his own motorcycle to follow Azer who was pushing the destroyed motorcycle. see.
Why is this happening?
This has to be said from Azer's tryst. A Ze always chatted with A Gui with a smile on his face. As I mentioned above, the two will inevitably come together, or we must foresee that at some point after the film, the two will inevitably have a one-night stand like Aze's brother and Agui.
One night stand happened at this tryst. We'll find out what a one night stand this is! Without passion and no moaning, A Ze was panicked, lost, and confused when he wanted to have a one-night stand with A Gui, just like Xiaokang.
How could Xiaokang learn from Azer? ! Because both are confused people!
Hollywood's learn-as-grow model breaks in this film. This is also the confusion we watched after watching the film. In modern society, each individual confronts this society with his own soft body in confusion, there is no answer, no means!
At the end of the film, once again early in the morning, Xiaokang appeared on the overpass in Ximending on the streets of Taipei, seemingly unable to find a way out.
Thinking of another great youth-themed movie "Resistance Without a Cause" also ended in the same way, the next morning. The three protagonists in "Nothing" are painful and shouting. The three have learned from each other to some extent and have grown up. The director used the early morning as the ending to indicate that they may have a happy ending.
But what about "Blue"? The two protagonists didn't shout, they were just in pain and lost. Xiaokang and Aze, who are in the same state at the beginning of the film, haven't changed, neither has society, nor has the ending, we guess.
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