Billy Elliot grows up

Crystal 2022-03-21 08:01:04

"Actor"
because he likes "Out of My World", so he has been paying attention to Jamie Bell (Jamie Bell) who plays Billy Elliot. I especially remember that when he danced uncontrollably, there was also a kind of tension on his little face, a fusion of restraint and publicity and eccentricity.
Since "Jump Out of My World", he seems to have been living in the historical dust created by the movie. Dickens's hard-working boy, the soldier in the trenches of World War I, the little sailor who went to Skull Island, the little soldier who died on Iwo Jima... Except for him in Green Day's "Weak me up when September ends" MV Outside of his cameo, I've never seen him in modern form.
Finally, in this film, Jamie Bell is a young man of the moment. Silent, self-suppressed, the first to witness the suicide of his best friend, would rather take the pills prescribed by his father, a psychiatrist, than share his emotions with others.
I think his face is really suitable for such a role, mixed with childishness and seriousness, mixed with confusion and stubbornness.
I'm really surprised at the background of this low-cost production. Although the actors are not big names, almost all of them have a head and face.
Several teenage protagonists, in addition to Jamie Bell, the other is Lou Taylor Pucci, who won the best actor in Berlin with "The Thumb Sucking Man", and one is also familiar, and after thinking hard, he remembered: This is not "The War of the Worlds" Tom Cruise's eldest son.
And adult characters almost invariably make you feel neurotic. The cast includes Ralph Fiennes, who I love, Glenn Close, who always plays bad women, Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks' wife, and Kerry Fiennes, who plays Trinity in The Matrix. Annie Moss, blah blah blah.

The computer-animated beginning of the "Style"
film reminds me of games like "Sim City" that I have played. The building is built on the ground, the house is built up, expanded, and beautified, and finally it becomes a dreamy color. town. It's like the kind of small town with a fairy tale style that is too bright to be real. However, under the bright and illusory color packaging, it is an alternative and dark story.
The title of the film, The Chumscrubber, seems to be taken from the name of a video game. The protagonist of the game woke up one morning and found that his head was not around his neck, and he walked around with the head in his hands. A person without a head coincides with the beginning of the film, the suicide of the young man and the free state of the protagonist.

The music of the "Music"
movie is quite nice, especially when the subtitles appear at the end of the film, "Our House" by Phantom Planet sounded, such a warm and soft voice, with a youthful taste, immediately attracted people.

"Feelings"
This brightly colored film is actually quite eerie.
The indifference of the adult world is chilling. Even under the same roof, they don't know what's going on inside their child's closed door. A mother thought her son was shutting herself in a room, but it was empty and her son had been kidnapped for two days; a mother only heard the loud music coming from the room, but did not know that her son was destroying inside. smashed everything; another mother was in the garden chatting with guests at a party, not knowing that her son was hanging his young life on ropes in the next room. These kids are forgotten, no one cares what they are doing, thinking, existing or not.
Billy Elliott grew up, he was like a walking corpse with his head in his hand, fighting alone, walking in this non-human world.

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Extended Reading
  • Crawford 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Film noir, unspeakable shock, except for the slightly old-fashioned ending, I like all of them. All sick, twisted relationships, bloody alienation suffocating. I'm not dead, but who could call this a life?

  • Roderick 2022-03-21 09:03:31

    "violent" neighborhood

The Chumscrubber quotes

  • Mr. Peck: Who put that knife in the wall?

    Billy: I did.

    Mr. Peck: You're going to fix that.

    Billy: It's my room...

    Mr. Peck: No, this is not your room. This is a room in my house. This is my room.

    Billy: ...Then you can fix it.

  • Billy: [to Charley] Hey, shitballs, come here. I want to show you something. Now, when you get to high school, if anyone tries to kick your ass - well, you're probably gonna get your ass kicked anyways, but if you weren't such a pussy, you could try this. Come at me, hit me in the chest.

    [Charlie weakly hits him]

    Billy: No, really come at me like you got a pair.

    [Charlie lunges at Billy, who tosses him across the room]

    Billy: Good! That was good!

    Crystal Falls: Oh, my God, Billy! Are you hurt, Charley?

    Lee: [Interrupting] He's about half your size, man!

    Billy: Are you fucking kidding me? We're fucking kidnapping this kid! Am I the only one who fucking remembers that?

    Lee: You're such a dick, Billy.