Solving the most difficult equation in the world in class, shocking the class can only be thought of in a dream. He has never been a genius teenager with a top ten grade, a tall stature, and a good basketball and guitar extracurricular activity. He just, it is a pity, a man with glasses who can write some scripts, often can't take care of his studies. The principal commented that he is "the most difficult student in the school", and he has new ideas every day: starting a variety of wonderful clubs, building an aquarium, and criticizing Latin courses. It didn't take long for him to try to restore the original class... , Nothing great was achieved in everything, on the contrary, it consumed all of Max's energy and even made him dismissed by the school. But Max was still young, and everyone forgave his impulse and blamed it on the passion and blood of the young man. I think this is the outlook on youth conveyed by Wes Anderson in "Youth and Youth": Youth is a period of time, you have countless ideas and plans, and each one looks so attractive, making you willing to run for it, even if it has already been exceeded. Range of capabilities. In youth, everyone feels that he is a genius, or that genius is only in youth.
Among all the youthful impulses of Max, the secret love for the teacher Cross [1] may be the most vigorous and absurd one. Max matures earlier than his peers. His business cards and suits can tell that he wants to be treated as an adult; showing love to adult female teachers, and moreover, will all his club activities, hobbies, and hobbies be a way of declaring his self-maturity Way? He stood among a group of people to direct the drama, personally finalize the details of the costumes, and took a small attendant. Obviously, he enjoyed the opportunity to prove "Max Fischer is unique" as a leader. In Wes Anderson's movies, there is always a precocious young man who is not gregarious and does not play cards according to common sense, trying to prove his existence to this chaotic world, like the boy scouts and girls who elope in "The Kingdom of the Moon Rising" , The little fox who is scumbag in front of his cousin in "The Great Daddy Fox"... On the contrary, there is always an immature adult who is deep in trivial daily anxiety, dissatisfied with the desire for life, and tries to find the glory of the past. Like the bachelor sheriff in "The Kingdom of the Moon Rising", the father who has a deteriorating relationship with his children in "The Genius", or the school manager Blume who is dragged down by his two sons in "Youth and Younger".
At the birthday party of the two sons, Blume was sitting in a chair and looking across the pool. The camera initially focused on his face, then zoomed to his sight. Family and friends were playing, and he refocused on what he didn’t like. The face seemed to isolate him from the family a few feet away, laying the groundwork for the subsequent derailment. After a while, he dived into the water and was completely separated from the land: the noise on the land disappeared, and a child swimming by his side only heard the muffled noise of the paddling. This is one of the most beautiful shots in my mind. Diving into the water is very suitable to symbolize the alienation between the characters and the environment. In "The Graduate", Benjamin is very reluctant to put on the diving suits given by his parents and dive into the swimming pool. He cannot see the expressions of relatives and friends on the ground, or hear their screams, as if the world suddenly has nothing to do with him. . Even if the sun is shining, the light blue tiles on the swimming pool wall are shining, but it only makes the audience feel the depression of diving into the deep sea.
Max’s relationship with Cross is also somewhat similar to Benjamin’s experience, but Benjamin’s love is more out of confusion-he doesn’t know what he wants, what kind of life he wants to live, and he is tempted to go to bed step by step, and Max just happens to He is too mature and knows exactly what he wants. As mentioned above, he is eager to enter the adult world through a love, but he hurts the people around him.
Max is not alone. In the public school, he met another himself: Margaret, who is also a man of extracurricular activities and has a unique idea. Margaret told Max that the results of the Science and Technology Festival were forged by her. She thought the results would be like that, but she didn't. I wonder if Max saw her own shadow in it. They are all extremely self-confident people. They have ideas but lack sufficient ability or luck. Often the results do not meet expectations, and they can only be supplemented by other means. Margaret introduced the results of the experiment to the Navy, and Max introduced the barber father to Cross as a "professor in a senior hospital", or believed that he was the most suitable female teacher.
But in the end they were relieved. In the last slow dance, what the audience saw was the confident and stubborn Max, but he might be able to let go of something that he requested prematurely.
Please be kind to the weird things around you like Max. They may call themselves genius, rampage, weird and paranoid, but they are not geniuses, let alone lunatics, they are only in their youth.
[1] After the second brush, I suddenly had an idea: Max and Cross once said in a chat that his mother had passed away when he was very young, and it was later discovered that his father did not marry again. Freud believed that in adolescence, people will empathize their feelings for their parents to other adults, thereby generating admiration, and that people who lack parental care in childhood will rely more on this feeling. Many of the so-called "uncle control" and "yu sister control" come from this way. Could Max's feelings for Cross be a kind of psychological compensation for his absence from the role of mother?
(Also: the time is relatively long, the character's name is hard to remember, it may be misspelled and ignored)
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