'oh, boy'
1 hour and 25 minutes in the movie, a day in Niko Fischer's day,
It was also the 1 hour and 25 minutes that my mind wandered freely with niko in Berlin's Friedrichstraße neighborhood.
The movie pictures based on black and white are not as gorgeous as colors, but instead make people pay more attention to the things that happened to this boy.
The storyline of the film is also presented with the boy as the carrier:
Confusion and loneliness and the desire to be understood are the norm of youth.
But maybe at a certain moment of the day, you suddenly seem to have grasped something real. The lazy and ethereal mentality disappeared in an instant...
The coffee with white smoke on the table heralds the beginning of a new day.
Niko is a young man in his early 20s. He was supposed to be in his second year majoring in law, but he dropped out of school because he was thinking, he wanted to think.
His day starts with a move: he's done placing cartons large and small on the floor of his new home.
The effervescent tablet to flush the water, the toaster to light the cigarette, the letter that the driver's license was detained, and the failure to catch the bus downstairs is what he looked like in the morning.
Helpless, depressed, and puzzled about the life around him is the normal state of his daily life:
I wanted to buy a cup of black coffee but was told it would cost 3.4 euros.
I went to the ATM to withdraw my card, but it was swallowed.
The ticket vending machine of the subway was broken, but the staff found that the ticket was evaded without buying a ticket.
He gave the change to a homeless man and got it back when he found himself penniless, but was looked at by passers-by
He said he had a busy day with a lot of appointments:
The new neighbor upstairs came to visit and welcomed him with a big bowl of meatballs made by his wife,
He and his actor friend went to the set to visit another actor,
He accompanied his actor friend to pick up "goods" from a drug dealer friend's house,
He was invited by his elementary school classmates to watch a play.
The neighbor's visit is not all about enthusiasm, but more about a lonely but burning soul wishing to speak to another soul.
His actor friend is extremely talented, but he refuses to play any role, in order to wait for a role that can match his talent, but in the end he only plays tricks on the set.
The drug dealer friend's room is filled with punk heavy metal atmosphere, while the grandma in the next room listens to Bach on the multifunctional recliner bought for her by the drug dealer grandson.
His primary school classmate, Julia, used to be a fat girl. After losing weight, she seemed to gain self-confidence, but deep down she was still afraid that she would be despised and laughed at by everyone like others in primary school.
He doesn't understand, he thinks people are weird:
Since the neighbor has such difficulties, why doesn't he ask his own friends to tell him?
Why is my friend who loves drama so reluctant to devote himself to the career he loves?
How could two such different atmospheres, to which grandma and his drug-trafficking grandson belong, exist under the same roof?
Why did Julia turn around and confront the hooligan when she could turn her head away after being provoked by the hooligan?
He looked at everything around him with confused eyes, and he wanted to know the reason and meaning of everything that happened around him.
Every time he felt he was close to the answer,
But will be interrupted by all kinds of things.
Like he craved coffee four times a day and couldn't,
It's like borrowing fire from passers-by every time he pulls out a cigarette.
He was woken up by a friend who came in while he was resting on the multifunctional massage chair, and was beaten by passers-by who came to borrow a few cigarettes when he was about to express his inner doubts to his elementary school classmates whom he had not seen for a long time. Cut off the conversation between the two:
The answers he was thinking about, the answers he was looking for, even a moment of quiet time for "thinking" he expected, was like the coffee that was unavailable and the cigarette that couldn't be lit.
How many answers seem to be coming out, but still can't come out.
But he didn't seem to want to know the answer so urgently, he just stared lazily at what was happening in front of him.
When the boy walked into the bar near his house in the middle of the night, he was about to put his confusion, laziness, and confusion all day into the spirits in front of him. The old man didn't wait for the boy to agree, he sat beside him, pulled the boy, and talked about his past...
In this stream-of-consciousness movie, the emotion in it is just the right amount of restraint. No cure, no depression, and even some ironic humor. There is no need for an inner monologue, just one look, one expression, and one word from Niko can understand all the activities in his heart.
Looking at it, the boys among them are so much like themselves in life, even the embarrassed smile, the decadent look, and the attitude of giving up halfway are exactly the same.
Huh, the embarrassment, white eyes, and confusion of the little angel Xilin are all angelic
Niko talks to different people, trying to understand the "strange" world in his eyes, and at the same time, he wants to be understood by the world as "strange".
He wants to find the direction of his future life through the positioning of himself and others to himself as an individual.
I don’t want others to see through me completely, but I also hope that there are still one or two people who can understand my own contradictory and diverse inner world.
I found that there was an opportunity in the process of chatting with strangers, and I immediately let go of my inner thoughts and thoughts, even though the voice in my heart told me that the stranger could not be the one who could solve my inner confusion and satisfy my inner desire to be understood. key.
It's Niko, and it's me, and maybe it's you.
At the end of the film, Niko starts the day with a hot cup of coffee.
So did he think about his answer in 1 hour and 25 minutes?
I think there is.
The gray-haired old man came into the bar, and Niko changed from being impatient at first to listening attentively later; after the old man fell to the ground outside the bar, he did not walk away, and after calling an ambulance, he stayed in the hospital all the time; After the death of the old man, he persistently wanted to know the name of the old man...
The confused and lazy look in the boy's eyes was gone, and his eyes were no longer shrouded in fog, replaced by a hint of firmness in his clear eyes.
Niko may have also discovered that those answers had already spilled over on everyone he met. The answer that left Niko baffled and confused was actually showing up everywhere.
A solid hug from grandma, and a sentence to take care of yourself, tells Niko to live a warm life.
After his father stopped his credit card, he only left him 100 euros, because he told Niko that he couldn't find the answer he wanted by "checking things" every day.
Julia fought back openly in the face of the rogue's indecent provocation, telling Niko that everything she felt, whether it was pain or other, had to be expressed so that it would be heard and understood.
After repeatedly asking "Do you understand", the old man yelled "No, you don't understand" even though he got the answer of "I understand", telling Niko to be confused and confused. Even a 70-year-old has it in his heart.
But what we should learn is to coexist with all the "don't understand" in our hearts,
Understand that no matter how many "don't understand", and maybe even to death, you still have to push yourself forward.
Many answers don't need to be searched for, and when you go forward, the answers will come unexpectedly.
When he recalled what he had experienced during the day, in the white smoke of the hot coffee in the morning, he may have found that only by actually experiencing something can he reach the distance that he thinks.
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