Say the title first. I bought this disc in a familiar audio-visual store in Xinjiekou, and the five words "Paradise Lost by the Bad Boys" are clearly visible on the cover of the disc - what a shit title, if it wasn't for the store owner's highly recommended Under the promise of "you only look at the first five minutes when you go back, you will get it back if you are not good", who will buy it. In fact, within three minutes of stuffing the disc into the machine, I knew I had found another treasure this time. After reading it, I did the next guide, and I knew that it has a Chinese translation of the eight classics: "Your mother too". But this name is really clueless, and it was not until the second or third time that I saw the subtitle of a line: "I not only fucked your girlfriend, but also fucked your mother!" I suddenly realized - the original source it's here. As for "Paradise Lost" (hereafter referred to as "Bad Boy") on the disc cover, it is the Hong Kong translation. You must read "Paradise Lost" (both novel and movie) to understand the mystery. In fact, I really feel that instead of letting tens of millions of brain cells die to guess the meaning of the title, it is better for Suoxing to directly translate it into "I Fucked Your Mom". Look, what a hassle! This is a Mexican movie from 2001, and it was 2006 when I saw it. At that time, there was just a D9 disc, which was more than double the price of the previous D5. And with the arrival of the D9, there is also an eye-catching mass of business card masterpieces that have been known for a long time in film history. However, this topic must be stopped, because it cannot be finished in one day or two nights. What is certain is that this "Bad Boy" is one of the earliest D9s I have collected. Now more than a decade later, I still think this is not only one of the best Mexican films I've ever seen, but the best teen film I've ever seen. It will remind people of the French New Wave, Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days", and even "American Pie" and the like. In the past ten years, we have also had a storm of youth films here, but after a few rounds, there was not even one that was available, and this genre was almost killed. Now re-watching "Bad Boy", I think it's really good, not only makes our youth films feel ashamed, but also dwarfs Hollywood youth films. The reason why "Bad Boy" is so eye-catching is that in addition to playing cards according to common sense, it also does not avoid worldly taboos. It retains the richness of life and is so blunt that it makes one blush to the point of stunned. Although it takes the form of a road movie, it doesn't have the veil of Hollywood road movies in the slightest. Its candor is refreshing, but likely to be uncomfortable for Chinese fans with disparate cultural practices. The two male protagonists of the film—Tai Nuo and Julio—are two 16- or 17-year-old teenagers. They are called "half-sized boys" in Beijing dialect. youthful cuteness Adolescence or rebellious period of youth. Like half the boys of the same age all over the world, these two do dirty work, pick up girls, smoke marijuana and jerk off together. Taino was born in a wealthy family, Julio is a middle and lower class family (also a single parent family). It's summer vacation, their girlfriends are traveling to Italy, and the brothers at home are bored and lazy. At a wedding, they are attracted by a graceful young woman, that is Luisa, the wife of Taino's cousin, so they have nothing to do. The brothers started teasing Louisa, boasting that they knew a secret beach called Heaven's Gate, and that they could take her there. Of course, this "Heaven's Gate" was made up casually, and they didn't really expect to hook up with this sexy cousin. The story that follows seems like a cliché (it's not bad, but we don't know until the end of the film): Louisa's husband (a novelist and college professor) cheated on her grandfather on business (not his first time), and he feels guilty for cheating on him. She called and told her that she was extremely sad and had other secrets, so she accepted the invitation of two teenagers younger than her to go to the beach that did not exist before. The film is based on the travel of two teenagers and a young woman, bringing out big propositions such as growing up troubles and the meaning of life. At the end of this trip, the two teenagers discovered many secrets of life, and also learned some principles of life, such as life is fragile and precious, and every minute is worth cherishing and so on. Of course, both of them were "conquered" by Luisa - in addition to the training of sexual skills, they also learned to accept each other's weaknesses and flaws. It should be pointed out that the Latin peoples of France, Italy, Spain and Portugal are very different from us in many aspects, especially in terms of ethics and morality, and some behaviors are simply unreasonable in our opinion. For example, cherishing life, the "cherishing" in our minds is abstinence, while they are indulgence; we think it is a very serious, even shameful thing, but they regard it as normal, and may also regard it as a passion for life; What we thought was counterintuitive, they thought it was just an attempt at healthy living. This is especially true for teenagers. For example, in many parts of South America, teenagers get their sexual enlightenment and sexual skills from married teenage women older than teens (see Neruda's memoir "Looking Back at the Vicissitudes of Life"), not like us, either blindly touching the elephant, or simply relying on Books, or by virtue of porn. Therefore, the sexual skills of South Americans are generally superb, and can even be said to exceed their football level, which can be proved by scientific survey data. No wonder even the battle-hardened Madonna candidly says: Latin lovers are the best lovers in the world. Knowing this, it is not difficult to see that "Bad Boy" is not a conventional "sister and brother love" story, but a teenage exploration of life. The story of the road to intellectual and psychological growth. However, the story of the growth of young people is only the surface, and its depth is a metaphor for the "growth" of a country. With this story, director Alfonso Cuaron expressed his political aspirations and understanding of his country. Cuarón believes that as a country, Mexico is also in its teenage years and has to go through many difficulties and troubles to mature. The film is rich in detail and has many seemingly casual shots, and through these "random scribbled" glances, the audience sees all aspects of Mexico. For example, Julio and his sister borrowed a car to pass through the crowd of street demonstrators; a construction worker was killed by a car while crossing the highway because the overpass was too far; no one claimed the body until four days later; the military police exchanged fire with drug dealers on the roadside; The "queen" (actually a witch) in a remote country collects tolls... The film has a clear class analysis color: Tai Nuo's father is a corrupt official who has to flee to Canada to avoid trouble because of trouble selling moldy grain to farmers; At the wedding, dignitaries gathered, the president came, and even "more bodyguards than guests"; when the camera turned to the countryside, we saw general backwardness and poverty. Even in the "Heaven's Gate" of Meiruo Paradise, the director did not forget to make a point: the beautiful beach has been bought by the boss and will soon be turned into a resort, and the fishermen who have lost their livelihoods can only work as hotel cleaners. This class antagonism is even reflected in the buddies Taino from a wealthy family and Julio from a middle-class family. When the brothers quarreled with each other and exposed each other's scars, in addition to "I fucked your girlfriend", it was Attacking each other's social status - Taino never touched the toilet seat with his hands when he went to the toilet at Julio's house. When he made fun of Julio's ugly JB, the latter didn't respond. Maybe Julio's subconscious Li felt inferior. The ability to integrate social elements so skillfully in such a youth film must be attributed to the talent of the director. Before this, Alfonso Cuaron was favored by Hollywood because of a black comedy called "Love in Hysteria" (with a small range of success), after he came to Hollywood, he directed two adaptations based on famous books. Movies: "The Little Princess" (1995) and "Great Expectations" (Chinese translation "Love the Storm"/1998). The former is acceptable, while the latter is substandard. After returning to Mexico, after a period of silence, he recovered his artistic vitality with this "Bad Boy", and then was invited back by Hollywood... I don't need to tell the following story - "Gravity" and "Roma" let me He was crowned twice on Oscar night, but I personally think his best movie was 2007's Children of Men. Of course, among them, photography master Manuel. Lubezki is invaluable. It can be said that without Lubezki, there would be no Alfonso Cuaron. "Bad Boy" was released in Mexico in 2001 and became the country's annual box office champion. The following year, it successfully entered the United States (Spanish is the second largest language in the United States after English, and states bordering Mexico, including Florida, have more Spanish-speaking populations than English-speaking populations) theaters, and also achieved considerable success. , and became the box office champion of Spanish-language films in the United States for a time, which was not broken until five years later by Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth". Nevertheless, the Hollywood industry believes that if there is no company in Hollywood, there will be no company that will let Cuaron make a movie like "Bad Boy" - First, Hollywood loves and fears the sexual scenes in the movie, and is eager to try it. Fear of being labeled R-rated (by the way, there are two versions of "Bad Boy", R-rated and NC-17); second, Hollywood has no interest in class analysis. There are many narrations in "Bad Boy", and this model is also derived from the French New Wave. In fact, the plot of "Bad Boy" is also unexpectedly reminiscent of Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" (1962). Most of the shots in "Bad Boy" are hand-held photography, which is smooth and natural, and the editing is extremely sharp, never sloppy. Another example is those sex scenes. There is neither the romance of filters and soft light nor the boringness of pure pornography. It is like the current teenagers, there is a kind of exaggeration and humor in the straightforwardness, unrestrained and free. The two male protagonists must be praised. Although there are a lot of nude scenes, there is no twist. Every scene is performed so well that it even makes people think that what happens in the movie is their daily life. In real life, they - Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna - were kids and good friends. Before that, the two made their debut in "The Sweet Smell of Death" (1999) and "Love is a Bitch" (2000), and the emergence of "Bad Boy" has undoubtedly added more to their acting careers. Chance. There is not much to say about them here. Interested friends can check/look at them. However, the most glorious performance in this film is undoubtedly the heroine Marieville Berdue. She expresses the different emotions of the heroine's restraint, provocation, indulgence, etc. very appropriately and in place. She is the backbone of this peculiar triangular relationship, especially It is the faint sadness that flashed between the eyebrows, which not only paved the way for the ending of the heroine, but also increased the thickness of the characters. By the way, there is Maryville. There are at least two masterpieces in Bell's films, namely "Beautiful Era" in 1992 (another translation of "The Lover of Four Thousand Gold", which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) and the aforementioned "Pan God". maze". In terms of themes and themes, "Bad Boy" also reminds me of Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days" from time to time. The two films capture the rebellious and restless youth very accurately, and both have a frivolous and humorous kind of "juveniles who don't know the taste of sorrow" (not the hypocrisy in the original poem). But there is also an obvious important difference between the two films: "Sunshine" looks back on the past years with nostalgic eyes and emotions, while "Bad Boy" is always filled with the detachment of "the present is drunk and the present is drunk". At the end of "Bad Boy", the two teenagers unanimously chose the path given by their elders. go their own way in life. "Bad Boy" is not just a youth film, it has a deeper background. It reveals the process by which the subject unconsciously discovers himself, understands himself, searches for identity, searches for others and the world at the turning point of fate, and finally establishes individual dignity and value of life. The corresponding tone of the film is sad and tragic. The actions of the two teenagers are not without ridicule, and the final outcome expresses the absurdity in life. Moreover, through the film, the director conveys and promotes the self-determination of the Mexican nation and the independence of cultural identity. The most prominent feature in the form is that the whole film is always run through a calm and objective third-person narration, which represents the perspective of the omniscient and omnipotent author. , the unique use of narration in the film creates a style similar to the narrative of a novel. Grass in 2008. Organized in February 2020 deeper background. It reveals the process by which the subject unconsciously discovers himself, understands himself, searches for identity, searches for others and the world at the turning point of fate, and finally establishes individual dignity and value of life. The corresponding tone of the film is sad and tragic. The actions of the two teenagers are not without ridicule, and the final outcome expresses the absurdity in life. Moreover, through the film, the director conveys and promotes the self-determination of the Mexican nation and the independence of cultural identity. The most prominent feature in the form is that the whole film is always run through a calm and objective third-person narration, which represents the perspective of the omniscient and omnipotent author. , the unique use of narration in the film creates a style similar to the narrative of a novel. Grass in 2008. Organized in February 2020 deeper background. It reveals the process by which the subject unconsciously discovers himself, understands himself, searches for identity, searches for others and the world at the turning point of fate, and finally establishes individual dignity and value of life. The corresponding tone of the film is sad and tragic. The actions of the two teenagers are not without ridicule, and the final outcome expresses the absurdity in life. Moreover, through the film, the director conveys and promotes the self-determination of the Mexican nation and the independence of cultural identity. The most prominent feature in the form is that the whole film is always run through a calm and objective third-person narration, which represents the perspective of the omniscient and omnipotent author. , the unique use of narration in the film creates a style similar to the narrative of a novel. Grass in 2008. Organized in February 2020
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