In May 1968, French students were dissatisfied with the country’s education and economic imbalances and the serious social crisis. Storm";
In 1993, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, a young man was severely injured by police officers on patrolling law enforcement. This caused local young people to avenge the police and eventually escalated into a riot...
In 1995, there were only twenty years at that time. The year-old Masuka Kasowitz has once again focused the audience's attention on the youth of the bottom of France because of his work "The Youth of Rage". In the play, the Jewish youth Vincent (played by Vincent Cassel) is born with the violent personality of Netravis Baico (played by De Niro) in "Taxi Driver". He was caught in the riot the previous night. The police gun lost the police, and even more so, he felt that he could retaliate against the police at any time; his black friend, Yu Bei, believed that there were good people among the police, and often calmly blocked Wenzi’s angry and violent behavior; as for the Arab youth Sa Ideai pretends to be verbal, but when faced with whether he really wants to take the lives of others, he will retreat. He seems to be an observer in the play. He is always unable to intervene when he witnesses what happened.
The movie puts all the stories in one day, and the three of them traveled through the city, seeming boring and aimless, yet they experienced many things. They encountered conflicts between the gang and the police, then ran out of Paris, broke into the drug lord’s mansion, was abused by the police, and fled, and then followed them because they could not catch the last train and were forced to wander late at night in Paris, trying to steal the car home. Finally, in the early morning, I met the previous evil police again... The director used the three foreign and non-mainstream identities of "Jewish", "African", and "Arab" to symbolize the discrimination and betrayal of the French youth at the bottom. A sense of isolation, they are a group that will only cause trouble in everyone's eyes, and they will always live in the fate of tragedy. It was shot from time to time that day, and the movie was divided into sections. As mentioned at the beginning of each floor, when a person fell from the top of a skyscraper, every time he fell, he comforted himself and said, "So far, I "Nothing yet", "So far, I have nothing to do", "So far, I have nothing to do"... But "the process of the fall is not important, what is important is the result", Wenzi was finally dismissed by the police. The gun exploded. After hearing the gunshot, Yubei, who had always been rational, squeezed the police gun in his hand and was handed to him by Wentz for safekeeping, and ran back to point at the police officer. Finish.
In this ending, there is no account of who fell to the ground first. The director used Yubei's confrontation with the police to symbolize the irreconcilable contradiction between the bottom youth (young group) and society. Regardless of the "May Storm" in 1968 or decades later, the discrimination, neglect, oppression, and torture of society against them has not changed, but the students used to resist with stones in their hands, and now they have more. A gun. However, the crazy society caused the police officers’ guns to go out of control, and the most rational Yubei also became angry and out of control. At the beginning of the film, a young man yelled "Murders" at the riot police team that had built a human wall. In fact, it is a rebuke to the system, the suppressed environment, and the trapped situation. The ending of "Young Furious Youth" echoes the first one, deepening the central idea explained in the opening of the film. It allows you to understand that not only a single individual is falling on the top of a skyscraper, but the whole is still in self so far. Comfort a problem society with no problems, no problems, no problems.
The memorable part of "The Youth of Rage" is the insertion of "unconventional" plots and pictures into the conventional narrative. This includes the bizarre appearance of cows on the street, which is a metaphor for all kinds of absurd things in society; the lights of the Eiffel Tower are extinguished, It reveals that the protagonist's uncertain fate will also have "deterministic" consequences that they can expect. In the bathroom, Wentz, Yubei and Said met an old man who told his experience of being exiled when he was young. This is the most bizarre part of the film. The director used the old man’s story to predict the involuntary young people at the bottom. "Falling" fate and ending. "You believe in God, but God does not believe in you." These people are like a group of people who have been abandoned in Siberia. No matter how hard they try to catch up, they cannot be drawn back to the "light" world that moves like a train. .
The director Marsuka Kasowitz (the male protagonist of "Angel Loves the Beautiful" is him), who has participated in many movies himself, pays great attention to the shaping of the characters in the play. He successfully made the three protagonists show different aspects. Personality, especially the irritable Wentz, looks fearless on the surface, but he is actually timid inside. During his escape, he witnessed the shooting of the guard and the illusion of killing the police stimulated by the TV screens, which proved that Wentz was on the verge of collapse mentally; when the three protagonists were arguing with another group, Wentz raised his gun. When pointing at the bullshit boss, no matter how Yu Bei beside him deliberately incited him, Wentz never pulled the trigger. Poor Wentz, he always gives the impression of being "aggressive," but in reality he is also a victim. The director portrayed such a character to more strongly reflect some of the deep-seated illnesses in reality.
The black-and-white images of "Young Furious Youth" not only bring a sharper texture to the internal and external conflicts, but also give the film a layer of tragedy. It uses long shots in many places, which makes people feel that the protagonist is aimless and doing nothing. In many places, it uses the technique of quickly zooming and fixing the lens in one place to re-arouse the audience's attention to the plot. The appearance of the police gun that was found in the scene is to use similar shooting techniques to "remind" us the importance of this "gun" in the movie. Director Masuka Kasowitz once said that he has not received much influence from French literary directors, but likes American directors. Some of his shots centered the characters and then pushed them towards the centered characters, which is obvious. "Betrayed", where he learned from directors such as Spike Lee.
"The Youth of Rage" is considered the French version of "Trainspotting", but I think it is more like "Taxi Driver". The issue of existentialism also fired a shot at a society full of problems. This gun is not only fired by the locals, but also by our city. It asks us to re-examine the generation of the bad relationship between young people and the government. It is not as simple as "society does not provide sufficient opportunities for promotion." The patriarchal party always does not fully understand (satisfy) what the young people want. They sometimes suppress and sometimes deal with it in a perfunctory manner. They think that they can continue to hypocritical if they put up a slogan like a movie shot-"The world is yours." , Continue to lie to everyone.
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