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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The Chumscrubber quotes

  • Officer Lou Bratley: Okay - so, now, you want to tell me about this fight at the mall?

    Dean Stiffle: No. Not really, no.

    Dr. Bill Stiffle: Dean, make an effort for me, please. I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation for all this, officer.

    Officer Lou Bratley: I'm all ears.

    Dr. Bill Stiffle: Dean?

    Dean Stiffle: ...The guy at the mall was Billy. He and the other two forced me to steal drugs from my friend, Troy.

    Officer Lou Bratley: Troy? Who's this Troy?

    Dean Stiffle: Troy Johnson. He's dead.

    Dr. Bill Stiffle: He committed suicide, sir.

    Officer Lou Bratley: I don't understand.

    Dean Stiffle: I told them no, so to force me to do it, they kidnapped my brother.

    Officer Lou Bratley: Wait a minute, are you kidding me? You got a son who's kidnapped?

    Dean Stiffle: No, wait a second, listen. They got the wrong kid. And they said if I didn't get the stuff from Troy, they were going to kill him.

    Officer Lou Bratley: Oh, you just said Troy, who's dead.

    Dr. Bill Stiffle: He is, officer. Dean...?

    Dean Stiffle: So I did it, only Charlie - my little brother, Charlie, switched the drugs on me. And I wound up with a bag of my mom's Veggie Force.

    Officer Lou Bratley: Veggie Force?

    Dr. Bill Stiffle: It's this vitamin line she hocks.

    Officer Lou Bratley: Veggie Force! I know that stuff. Right, I know, Veggie Force, right. Okay. Yeah... you wouldn't happen to know if they make a weight gainer for kids?

    Dr. Bill Stiffle: I can check I guess.

    Dean Stiffle: ...Anyway, that's why we got in a fight. Cause he wouldn't let the kid go.

    Officer Lou Bratley: Which kid?

    Dean Stiffle: The kid who was kidnapped.

    Officer Lou Bratley: Okay. I think I understand. You were fighting at the mall with a guy who's kidnapping and drug smuggling with a guy who killed himself.

    Dean Stiffle: ...Yeah.

  • Officer Lou Bratley: Well, that's great Dean, you know? Only there doesn't happen to be any reports around here of any missing kids, so how do you explain that?

    Dean Stiffle: I can't... I can't explain that.

    Dr. Bill Stiffle: [Interrupting] Officer, can I...?

    Officer Lou Bratley: Well, I mean, what's his name? This missing kid, this kidnapped kid, what's his name?

    Dean Stiffle: He's called Charley.

    Officer Lou Bratley: Charley what?

    Dean Stiffle: Charley Br...

    Dr. Bill Stiffle: [Interrupting again] Officer Bratley, could you step outside a minute, please? I'd like to talk to you in private.

    Dean Stiffle: ...O-Officer Bratley?