When I first saw the director alternately confessing Alyssa and James through the two-line narrative, I thought it was a "when I first saw him, I flipped" style love story, but replaced the protagonist with two more socially marginal The characters are at best the level of "Pulsating Heart". Until, he finally killed the first person, and the painting skin of "Punching Heart" that deceived the audience faded away, and the end of "Poor Mountains and Bad Waters" and "Born Murderer" appeared to be the original form, and the situation became more and more wrong, when the last When the camera clearly pays tribute to "Four Hundred Strikes," the director's heart is clear.
"We are getting better, but the world feels that we are sinking"
The panic of adulthood and the harm caused by the original family continue to oppress and urge them to flee. "Escape" seems to be a typical motif in Western narratives. It is the first step to growing up. When everything is under their feet, they are unrestrained. They sing and laugh and experience this moment of freedom, but after a brief joy is Endless questions are just like the smiles that fade away at the end of "The Graduate". The fire from the car in the third episode separated them from their past lives. At that time James knew that he could not go back; killing the perverted second fire made them less likely to be accepted by society; they were crushed to death. The puppy’s last fire was Alyssa’s despair towards her father, the last person to prove her connection with society, and they finally abandoned society completely. "The end of the fucking world" and another movie of the same theme I like "sing street" coincidentally chose to take a boat to the far side as the ending. The "sea" here symbolizes the ceremony of "baptism". After crossing this sea, it is rebirth and wash away all sins. They can go to foreign countries, to places that no one knows about, they can treat it as it never happened, and they can do it all over again. However, in the director’s interview, the original design ending of "sing street" was that they were drowning in the sea. In "the end of the fucking world" he ran on the beach, seemingly wide without borders, seemingly free sea, But it is like a cage, and there is no way to "get through" only the endless despair. In "Four Hundred Strikes" Antoine stared straight through the heart, the last shot in "the end of the fucking world". It's the hand that strangles the throat, making people unable to breathe.
They are clearly getting better. In this deformed and simple relationship between Alyssa and James, I gradually saw James actually start to have feelings, and I also found that Alyssa could also say "I'm sorry". They miraculously licked the wound and rescued each other. These protective films that were supposed to be composed of parents, teachers, and society have become thorns that bind and hurt them; people who were supposed to treat and help them have become the driving force behind them. In the world of adults, they have no stories, no changes, only evidence and no emotions, only adults or minors. What's going on in this world, these so-called adults really understand the meaning of being human better than eighteen-year-old children? Just like Antoine ran non-stop at the end, all the panic in the adult world remained in Antoine's eyes. Just like the sentence in "the end of the fucking world": "In a chaotic world, the crazy person is the only one who is sober." They may be sober, they are the world's medicine.
Violence, marginal protagonists, road trips, these stylized elements deconstruct and soften the serious issues of this film, but we put aside these eye-catching elements, what we see is a "problem youth's lack of education" . A truly outstanding movie always has extremely prominent aesthetic tastes, including color matching, music, and clothing, but the core theme it tells must be universal and thought-provoking. I think "the end of the fucking world" did it, I like it.
As a digression, I really like the heroine saying that black and dad don’t use vowels /ae/, and don’t need to mobilize facial muscles (that is, those muscles that make smiles). You only need to be full of anger, open your mouth and send out /^/, extremely decisive and full Resolutely again. Beautiful British English.
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