We were all clumsy lovers. When we first started our love affair, the palms that were always sweating, looked incoherent and nervous, and wished we couldn’t make love with each other in death--yes, at that age, apart from a flourishing life, what could I dedicate to it? Favorite person? No name, no money, only a heart that is wholeheartedly good for you and can die for you. Also, this clumsiness also lies in the fact that people at this time have only one lover in their eyes, and everything else can be sacrificed.
There was a girl in college. She was beautiful, generous, and well-behaved. Many boys liked her. When the club had dinner together, she was always the focus of the universe - even though she might not realize it, a group of boys naturally scrambled for her. Poured Coke, served her vegetables, talked and told jokes with her, the girl sitting next to her, and the boys, laughed and made trouble, drank a lot of wine, and left drunk. A boy told me that a girl is so mad when she's drunk. We ate together again many years later, and she told me that I was sad that day, so I drank a lot. Although no one did anything wrong, I also felt guilty. Now that I think about it, this is the clumsy love of adolescence, pure and warm, but it can also hurt deeply. At that time, we didn't know what love was, how many landscapes and reefs there were in the journey of life, and we didn't even understand that love was not just a kind of recklessness.
Alice Wu's "half of it" is such a movie, a very peculiar love triangle, which happened in a high school in the beginning of love. The material is very interesting, including homosexuality, ethnic minorities and other politically correct factors, but I believe the director did not do it deliberately, her previous film "saving face" (face) is also a same-sex theme, and the protagonist finally came out of the closet together. The ending of this movie is open, and their relationship may be just the vague and vague feelings of teenagers. The two of them have their own reasons for their depression. The former is the inferiority of an Asian single-parent family, and the latter is a strict religion. Puritan-style repression in the family, in this special environment, I have never experienced the love of the same sex or the opposite sex, so it is "unknown and deep," and moved to cry when the mind of youth is understood. Maybe that's not love.
The performance of this puberty love is similar to "Blue Door". This "Blue Door", which turned Gui Lunmei from a Ximending girl into a star, is very classic because it shows the troubles of young men and women so delicately and deeply. At this time, the trouble for girls is that I don't know if I will love boys, and boys' little secret is just "I pee with a fork".
It is said that in the few seconds of a person's death, the joys and joys of a lifetime will flash back one by one. In this way, death is not painful, at least the last few seconds are happy. Whether it is film or literature, it is a successful work that can awaken the joy in people's heart. Teen movies can be very successful if done well (eg The Girls We Loved Those Years) because they give a dying experience.
I read the director's notes and she said the first time her heart broke after coming out was not because of a girl but because of a straight guy. This straight man is her best friend (Lan Yan confidant), she helped the boy chase the girl, but finally broke up, the boy said, you know, she is Lala, don't get me wrong, the girl said: I know , to be honest, I don't mind your sleeping, but I mind your intimacy. Love is selfish and full of jealousy, even for a good friend of the other half.
On this basis, Alice wu conceived the script.
I learned about Sacramento through "Lady bird", and I learned about Squahamish through "hafl of it", these two small towns in California, the scenery is quite different from the United States. A very interesting detail in the movie is that Paul's mother sees the child searching: how to judge whether she is gay, thinking that the child is gay, in the church he suddenly stood up and said a paragraph, his mother mistakenly thought he was gay, hugged him Say, boy, even if you're a gay mom, you still love you. He said, I am not. Mom said, oh! Thank goodness. Then he said, I think our family's sausage recipe needs to be changed, and his mother was furious: You can't change it, it was left by your grandma, and the recipe of our ancestors can't be changed! Then start beating him. Laughed at this part.
The actors' performances are all very good, but the actor who plays Ellie's father is very familiar. It is actually Chang Wei Zou Zhaolong in "Nine Pins of Sesame Official". He is gentle here, and even some aspects are a bit like China's Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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