If I die young bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song
"Baby Teeth" is a lively girl's film, which consists of a poetic diary subtitle, a character model filled with youth hormones, a bright and lively image style and a short and delicate narrative structure; but in contrast, it tells the story of It is a story about a surging middle-class family composed of a terminally ill girl who is self-exiled, Milla, and her parents who are neurasthenic, drug-dependent and suspected of cheating. Along with the emergence of the social youth Moses and the death of the girl Milla, it eventually goes to ruin. The light-hearted narrative style contrasts sharply with the desperately morbid character core, making the film a fragile work of art.
Milla seemed like a cute girl when she danced carefree to a record at a music teacher's house, but she lied in front of her parents, kissed a bastard several years her senior, and acted without any scruples The style makes people quickly discover her abnormality - she is like a child without pain, addicted to piercing the veins with scissors and watching blood flowers for fun. Moses is a wicked and magnanimous bastard, and when he comes out, he takes on the excess hormones that the bad boy aura induces, and makes the pure Milla fall in love with him at first sight. One of the two has an irresponsible and irresponsible emotional upper hand because of their age and social experience, while the other is as innocent as a blank sheet of paper but is not afraid to expose her innocence.
This early love made the parents who were deeply in the middle-aged emotional crisis very opposed, but they were not able to solve their own problems, and they could not stop their daughter from wanting to fall in love with this social youth who cheated her of money and stole medicine from her home. What's more, they both feel indebted to Milla, who is terminally ill, and want to give her the whole world. In the too-good-to-be-hidden Just Another Diamond Day segment, they almost absurdly accepted into their family this thief and liar who had another girlfriend, abstaining from alcohol and tobacco, and drug addiction. In this way, four unlovable patients, each with a lot of trouble, form a deformed web of hopelessly dependent on each other.
When Milla appeared, she wore a student uniform with long platinum blonde hair and a top student skirt. Later, Moses shaved a weed-like short hair and turned it into a small bald head. In the second half of the film, as the narrative distance gradually narrowed, The camera penetrated deeper into the fragile and broken inner world of the girl. She put on a seaweed-like blue-green wig and a long silk dress that her mother bought for her to attend the dance. The more life burns to the end, the more brilliant and unreserved sparks burst out. In the party scene, the soft and gorgeous light balls alternately fell on Milla's face, and at the moment of kissing the stranger, a firework light and shadow bloomed on Milla's side face, and the romantic ambient light seemed to be blessed by the gods.
April is the cruelest month, says T.S. Elliott. Milla's mother told Moses when they first met that Milla had a baby tooth. At the end of the play, Milla begged Moses to help her commit suicide and failed. The baby teeth fell out in a suffocating kiss, and a painful growth that ended in death finally came to an end. The family moments on the beach at the end of the film somewhat dispel the intensity of the tragedy, making the naive and cruel calm narrative distance of the previous film seem a little sticky; the director seems to realize this, so the film finally freezes on the fixed-camera shot of the empty scene. , the waves washed away the remaining youthful vitality and the emotional entanglement of despair, one after another, and ended up in a white land that was really clean.
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