Born in 1981, Kelly Fremont Craig, as a screenwriter, directed her first film "Growing Edge" (2016), which won the 82nd New York Film Critics Association Award for Best Debut Award. Huayi Brothers, as the producer, can be considered to be out of the world. Woody Harrelson, who plays Mr. Max, is no longer the cold-blooded and hippie in "Born to Kill" and "Sex Book Tycoon", with a completely indifferent look, which corresponds to the aggressive and domineering girl Nadine (Hayley). Stanfield).
Hailee Steinfeld, who was born in 1996, played the role of Marty, the little girl in the Coen Brothers' "Earth Thunder", at the age of 14 in 2000. This time, 1,000 protagonists were selected, and she was the one who finally won after she proposed herself. She perfectly interprets the image of Nadine, who she thinks is the most bitter and hated in the world, and has also won her many awards.
American youth movies, full of positive energy, but very hilarious. It's just that this "Growing Edge" is so fun that it is limited to R-rated, and adults under the age of 17 need to accompany it to watch.
The truth is, director Carrie Fremont Craig has made a half-year investigation and home visit to the school, and has mastered a lot of first-hand information. Most of the funny lines in the film are provided by the students themselves. Nadine's mental state and emotional venting can find considerable resonance among the students.
The so-called growth edge is just a kind of "edge" that is taken for granted, which means a bit of self-isolation. At the beginning of the film, it goes straight to the topic. Nadine, a second-year high school girl, rushed to the history teacher Max's office and said that she wanted to commit suicide, and she wanted to die swiftly and heroically. The dying teacher Max listened to her babble and said slowly and slowly that you have too much information, and I was about to commit suicide, and the suicide note was written.
In a daze, Nadine said that I would rather live in the darkness of nothingness. When it comes to the three views, it has to start from my second grade. A self-proclaimed geek, she turned out to be unpopular since she was a child, and her mother only liked her brother Darian. Since she was a child, she believed that there are two kinds of people in this world. One is the one who exudes self-confidence and is born winner, just like her brother, who is loved by everyone, and the other is who hopes that these born winners will be It was blown up by a big explosion.
Fortunately, there is an old and fat father who is willing to be a peacemaker, and will make her laugh from time to time. At the same time, I met Christa, who took the initiative to extend an olive branch. The well-behaved Krista became a "band-aid" to heal her hurt heart. The two were talking nonsense quietly.
That night, Dad, who was considered a talisman, was driving to listen to Billy Joel's songs, or he was too high, and he had a heart attack, which made her very sad. Since then, her mother has been devastated, but Nadine's battle with her mother and brother has not stopped for a day.
Nadine was born to fight. If she had grown up in China's "Cultural Revolution" era, she would have worn a red armband and took the lead in raiding her home and revolting against her mother and brother. Krista was bright and sunny, and she was vicious, mocking what stupid T-shirt her brother was wearing, watching his nipples howl.
The world is impermanent, there will always be changes. When Krista took care of Nadine, she went downstairs to help Darian to do something, and went to his bed while doing it, just to be seen by Nadine who woke up, oh my god...
Christa, you've been in a big trouble, how could you sleep with him, it's like I'm with your dad, helping him jerk off, without me, without him. Freak Nadine was really angry. In the fast food restaurant, she took off her sneakers and threw them violently. What do you think? I don't understand why you like him. You want to take revenge on me, right? Poor Krista was stunned by her barrage of remarks and yelled that I was driven mad by you.
Krista had never yelled like this since she was little. Nadine also felt that it was too much. But after agreeing to attend a party with her brother and Krista, she was completely desperate, no one paid any attention to her, and even when people talked about her and her brother, they were laughed at the mouse brother in "Dragon Brother and Mouse Brother".
She gave Krista an "expulsion order" again, choose me or my brother? But the other party said there was no way, I like your brother. Nadine said that's fine, we can only break up, we're done. What is Gu Ying's self-pity. Nadine seemed to be falling down at this time.
Fortunately, the Korean boy Evan Kim could chat with her a few words. What she liked in her heart was Nick from the pet store, and she always wanted to express her admiration to him. In Max's history class, the movie "Young Lincoln" was played, and she bored a few words with Evan King.
With no choice, she had to reluctantly date Evan King. The two got on the Ferris wheel in Tim's theme park. Jin wanted to kiss her on a whim, but she avoided her. In the end, she said coldly, "You're not bad, but it reminded me of sitting in a wheelchair in a nursing home." old man, wise old man. What the hell is this. If you don't like someone, you don't need to ridicule them like this, fortunately, Jin doesn't take it to heart.
No one likes me, I hate how I look, how I talk, I hate it since I was a kid. The mother, who has been looking for love, suffered repeated setbacks. She was a dentist and a psychiatrist for a while, but they all made her feel disheartened, but she did not invite her daughter's sympathy. Her mother drove her to school, and when she saw Krista getting out of the car, she was out of sight and out of mind, and she let her go around again, not wanting to see the old friend who had broken up. So I confronted my mother, and threatened my mother that if you didn't obey, I would say on Facebook that you pluck the hair on your nipples. There is really a girl in the family who can't be bothered.
Nadine couldn't go to school. She ran out of her mother's office and drove her mother's car. This time she kept doing it. She finally sent a courtship message to Nick. I always like you. I'd like to give you a blowjob. Lips and tongues lick my nipples, I want us to get along, I'm going to your petting garden to do...
Under the passion, Wu Yangyang accidentally posted it. Once it was posted, he regretted it and thumped his chest. This made the other party think of me. People must think I'm a lunatic. That's why she broke into the teacher Max's office. , said I was going to commit suicide.
It was so. The teacher said it was fine. You give yourself a break and drink yogurt. Then you give me the yogurt money. She bought ice cream. The most hilarious thing in the film is that when she is depressed, she runs to the teacher and asks the teacher to chase after her mother. As she was talking, she put her feet on the teacher's desk and acted like a fool. She said our generation is stupid, if you take your phone away from them for a second, they go crazy like epileptics, they can't communicate without emojis, nothing but smiley faces, damn it the fuck...
The problem is, she ended up tearing up with the teacher somehow. It should be like this, in the face of her bitter complaints, the teacher casually said that I miss you, and no one likes you. What? no you like you. She jumped up immediately, you rubbish, look at you bald donkey, you have no hair, no wonder no woman loves you, so you are single so far, because baldness makes people nauseous, especially a person with an annual salary of only 40,000 to 50,000 dollars bald donkey...
This bombardment was enough to make Max "shatter to pieces". The teacher said without hesitation, giving you half a cookie will make you feel better. You are my favorite student I have ever taught. real? Because I say this, you'll be better off. The disciples are reconciled.
Nick received the message, of course he didn't let it go. He drove to pick her up. Don't you just want this. I mean we understand. Know the shit. I see. He just wanted to have fun and didn't love her as much as she loved him. Poor Nadine has always been open-mouthed without practical experience. Now, she was completely disappointed.
Live without love. Where can she go, she only ran to the teacher's house, and then she exclaimed that the teacher had a wife and a baby, which made her extremely ashamed and spit out poisonous words. Her brother and Krista came to pick her up, but they scolded her again. Seeing her brother's extremely disappointed expression, she knew she was wrong. After the teacher sent her back, she told her brother that I was going too far. Rarely, she said emotionally, I always thought that I was the only one with problems. For the past 17 years, I know you have been doing well, my soul has been in the abyss, I'm sorry, I'm so scared.
The brother hugged her tightly. She said, did you know that when my father died, you cried wet holding the pillow, I secretly changed the pillow for you, and I cried all night holding the wet pillow. It was rare that the siblings finally reconciled.
The next morning, Nadine took the initiative to greet her brother and Krista, and she went out happily after seeing her new face. Krista reassured Darian that it was wonderful. When the mother got up, she pushed open the door of her daughter's room. She couldn't believe it. It was clean. She was afraid she had gone to the wrong place.
Yes, Nadine finally has the direction of love. She specially picked a small yellow flower from the roadside and came to watch Evan King's comic movie. The story is exactly the story of her going to the private swimming pool of Jin's family. Unexpectedly, Jin not only has a good character, but also has such talent.
After the movie, when she gave him flowers, she said you were amazing, and I knew that was me. No, not you. This made her stunned for a while, completely unacceptable. But he couldn't help laughing. You used to make fun of me, and I'll fool you this time. This made her feel better. She is really afraid of losing now.
Unlike the title "Edge of Growth", the film has undoubtedly become a pleasing mainstream. Although the ending of the film is as happy as the usual thinking of American youth films, it has a different taste. The so-called growth edge is mainly a solidified state of inner lack, which comes from the cognition of a child who believes that he is inferior to others. This is the negligence of love, and it is also the abnormal state of normal life. Fortunately, Nadine finally came out of her inner haze.
The fun of the film lies in the successful construction of a group of characters that complement each other, vivid and moderate: the mother who doesn't know how to love her daughter at home is chaotic and impatient, the brother is calm, confident and excellent, but was "blocked" by Nadine, who has been turning a blind eye to her. Sita's bright and blindly accommodating, teacher Max's cold and lenient face, Evan King never cared about her tyranny, and faced the sunshine (this almost perfect role is reminiscent of the production of Fang is from China), these characters who get along with Nadine day and night have finally achieved a very unreasonable but lovely image of a female hanging silk, which is really appetizing and invigorating.
2017, 2, 15
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