Germany can. This lazy boy dropped out of school. Yes, he was lazy, he felt tired and felt the need to stop and think. The cause of this "laziness" is gradually revealed in the slow-paced development of the film. Because the world is giving him some kind of meatballs that he doesn't need at all; the world is looking through the cardboard boxes of his personal belongings; the world is making things difficult for him for no reason, so that he can't get his driver's license; the world stops his credit card , told him to learn to be independent; the world's broken ticket machine, but harsh inspections; the world could not forget its fat past, and pushed him away with extreme enthusiasm and sensitivity; the world is a hypocritical movie, the history Mixed in a kitsch plot; the world is an old man who suddenly died, a boy crying in "Crystal Night"; all he wants is a sober cup of coffee, but the world always delivers crazy spirits. Structurally, Ah Boy is more of a road movie.
It is not difficult to see some metaphors of the director. The father corresponds to today's Germany, the fat girl dancer and the old man who died suddenly correspond to the history that cannot be forgotten. The situation in Germany is a bit similar to ours, and there is a problem of how to view history. But again, because I guess few people in Germany miss the Hitler era. Years ago, a kid wobbled on the street with a bike much bigger than himself. In the blink of an eye, the child had gray hair and a wrinkled face. He couldn't understand the words of the young man, and he died suddenly on the street as soon as he went out. From the moment a stone smashed a window, an entire generation was lost.
There is a brief moment of tranquility in the current state of the film, which is Bach's "Church Psalm". Germans are always on the "don't let others laugh at you" string. But in fact who dares to underestimate Germany? Yes, Germany gave Hitler, but Germany also gave Bach, Beethoven, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Einstein, and Goethe. This is the answer given by the director. However, this young man cannot lie on the easy chair of music and religion and wait to die like the grandmother whose grandson sells drugs. And the neighbor at his rental house, a middle-aged man who is the exact opposite of the boy's father. Full of failures. Everyone has their own specific predicament, and in the middle-aged, he can only waste his residual passion in the basement. The boy couldn't help him, and he couldn't even eat the balls he gave, because it was definitely not the result of a good marriage.
The situation of the boys in the film is also the situation of young people all over the world today. Primo Levi said in "Submerged and Saved": "For the young people of the '80s, these were just their grandfathers: distant, vague, 'historic'. These young people are Surrounded by different, pressing social problems: the nuclear threat, unemployment, resource depletion, population explosion, they must adapt themselves to the frenzied and frequent technological innovation. The structure of the world has changed extensively and profoundly.” From the boy’s father In our body, we can also feel that the whole world is in a hurry and lacks enough kindness and patience for young people. The previous generation will forever use their own worldview as a textbook and impose it on the next generation. If you don't follow his rules, it's unreasonable. Just like the father's generation, the young man was born with a pure heart, but the world the two generations faced was completely different. Therefore, the communication between them is also full of fundamental barriers.
"This is not the way I want to go." The boy said to his father, but he didn't even know what kind of way he wanted to go. Just like coffee, there were too many choices and it was confusing. At the end of the film, the boy finally drinks the kind of coffee he wants, the simplest coffee. It was a bright ending, and in the early morning, the boy drank his coffee and saw clearly the way he was going.
Published in "Watching Movies Midnight"
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