leave, stay young

Ollie 2022-03-26 08:01:01

British screenwriter and director Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are old partners who have a tacit understanding of cooperation. Back then, an "Office Story" went from England to the United States, and it also made Ricky Heather. Weiss won the 2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a TV Series, Comedy or Music. With the prosperity of their careers, the age of the two also increased, and when the age grows to a certain point, a feeling called nostalgia will inevitably arise in people's hearts. So, the two came to the place where Gervais grew up in the 1970s, and presented this British-style youth film "Cemetery Crossing", which is not so much a youth film as a "post-youth film". It tells about the choices of several people who have entered the society and at the key point of farewell to adolescence. Some people leave, some stay good life.

Freddy, Bruce, and Snooker, the three friends who have a blue-collar job, belong to the stage when they are entering the society, but they have not yet lost their youthful youthfulness and nonsense. This stage is often a stage of hidden variables. From playing with no different playmates, to starting to engage in different jobs and beginning to take on more and different responsibilities, they must go to separate fields and make their own choices. Freddy is full of ambition, trying to stop spending too much energy on seemingly worthless drinking, fighting, picking up girls, and becoming an insurance salesman. Bruce is a typical blue-collar worker, but still has the charm of adolescence. In his cynical life, what is actually buried in his heart is a resentful heart. Snooker can be said to be the cutest of the three. He is bold and small, can't speak, and often a few words scare away the rising girls who are chatting with the three. His life-threatening display of vulgar tattoos is even more impressive. Speechless, he appeared to be the most unsuccessful, but with the most spontaneous happiness. Originally, the three lived a carefree life, and then under different choices, the choice of path must also conflict with them.

Freddie chose to follow a mainstream struggle path, and like many young people, he has his own inspirational idol, the successful insurance entrepreneur in the town, and also deliberately imitates their way of doing things. Even, he has to gradually try to integrate into the circle that is incompatible with his current living state, to try to accept the values ​​that make him feel uncomfortable instinctively. In the process, he gradually began to lose the simplicity of his body and the blue-collar background of his life. To put it bluntly, he seemed to "forget about this", which also caused the conflict between him and Bruce. Bruce's candid life has a trace of contempt and disdain for the upper class, and when Freddy opens his arms to welcome the circle he despises, a contradiction arises. The basis of friendship is often based on the common ground between each other. Many times, people form friendship because of one common point, such as social foundation and value orientation, but after that, more common ground actually makes each other's friendship more solid. solid. However, when there is a disagreement on one of the common points, the two sides often ignore other more remaining friendship bonds and argue endlessly over this point, which leads to continuous disagreements and eventually destroys a friendship. This is exactly what happened to Freddy and Bruce. The difference in career choices made them quarrel constantly, until at an insurance company party, this contradiction broke out in the incompatibility between Bruce, snooker and mainstream society.

Bruce is a microcosm of the unstable state of youth in the film. He is like a time bomb that may explode at any time. In the film, he is the most charming, but also the most paranoid, violent, and resentful. When his mother left his father, he took anger at his father's incompetence and incompetence. Humble, ignoring his father's love and tolerance for him. Bruce is in a dangerous state, and he makes you feel like he might end up in jail tomorrow, or die on the streets, or just go down forever. The interesting and tender part of this film is that it makes the choices of youth seem so unstable, but it leads to a state of hope. Freddy originally planned to stay in the small town and achieve success with his hard work, but he finally couldn't stand the hypocrisy of this so-called upper class circle and was shaken, and his old love, the boss's daughter Julie, made his shake even stronger. In the film, Julie's mother is an important catalyst, and both Freddie and Julie see the pessimistic future of high society love and family from this housewife. And Bruce, who was restless and wanted to leave the town, finally understood his father's distress and the grievances of a responsible man under the distressed roar of his father's old friend after he got into trouble again. With the greatness, he returned home and patted the scene of his father handing over a bottle of beer. The scene was silent and sound, and the warmth and reconciliation were repeated many times. Therefore, he chose to stay and continue to assume his responsibilities in this small town. The most gratifying and surprising thing is snooker. His tattoos are finally appreciated, his jokes are finally listened to, a girl let him experience love, and he can have a serious attitude towards life.

The choice of youth is indeterminate, and each choice is different from different perspectives. Choosing to leave can be said to be ambitious and ambitious, or it can be said to be reckless and ignorant, escaping reality; choosing to stay can be said to be Pragmatic and solid, with family at heart, it can also be said that he has no ambitions and does not know how to forge ahead. The choices of youth have their own reasons, and they know the joys and sorrows. At least in this film, those who wanted to stay chose to leave, and those who wanted to leave chose to stay. Behind their choices, there is a period of self and surrounding environment. Re-understanding and growth, and this is the most important life experience. Therefore, leaving and staying are both youthful. What remains unchanged is the continuous exploration and discovery of ourselves. There are still many intersections on the road of life. At the next intersection, we all have the opportunity to choose again: leave or stay; continue Go forward, or turn.

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Cemetery Junction quotes

  • [first lines]

    Mr Kendrick: Frederick Taylor. Freddie Taylor. Welcome to Vigilant Life Assurance. I see you grew up in Cemetery Junction. Went to Stone Meade, the worst school in the south of England.

  • PC Renwick: [in his face] Can I help you?

    Bruce Pearson: Wow yeah, you can start by brushing your teeth. What have you been doing, sucking a toilet bar?