The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Jesse Andrews. The story is as clear as the name of the movie. It tells a story between high school student Greg and his only friend Earl and the checkmate girl Rachel. The story takes place in Pittsburgh. Greg, a 17-year-old high school boy, is a little autistic or even neurotic. Like other children, he is afraid of not being able to integrate into the surrounding environment, so he works hard to show his cheerful side, and carefully interacts with the various circles in the school. He maintained friendly relations with his classmates but refused to make friends. Even Earl and Greg, who grew up with him, described them as "collaborators." As hardcore movie fans, Greg and Earl spent most of their spare time on spoofing classic movies, until Greg was unwilling to take his mother's order to visit her female classmate Rachel, who was suffering from cancer. Everything changed. Greg The most fragile, beautiful, and gentle part of the heart was turned page by page. Gradually, they became friends. Amidst this change, Greg found his own way of looking at the world and had to face Rachel's departure.
This story is about friendship, about healing, about death, about the dreams of lost youth and obsessed teenagers. There is no abortion and complicated love relationships in domestic youth movies, and there is no extra sensationalism. It wraps the shell of an American youth film, locks a heart of comedy, and conveys a tapestry-like texture in a familiar way, with a bit of absurdity in freshness, a bit of thinking in healing, and a sincere control of the audience in humor. Emotions make you laugh even when you should cry, but still hit the softest part of your little heart and move you in a mess.
This is the youth of most people who can resonate with us. Friendship is always occupied much earlier than love. There is no imposing love between men and women. It is pure and true. The method of directing the speech story is unique. It is unfolded in a unit mode of broken thoughts, and the time is compressed by the flashing method. The clay animation endorses Greg's inner world, brisk music, unsaturated fresh color, unique feeling, rhythm, The fusion and interweaving of the atmosphere attracts our souls like a hand-made.
Alfonso Gomez's shooting methods are more unconstrained. He prefers "poetic" sports shooting. He likes the freedom of hand-held shooting and the natural effects of shaking. He uses lively lens narrative style to subtly manipulate our viewpoints and enter scenes with narration. , There is a little bit of mystery and a little expectation, and at the same time it brings us to the core of the film narrative. In the early days, we used a wide-angle lens to extend the distance between people, a large number of special angles and lenses, and even completely inverted composition, in a slow or urgent manner. During the movement, a relaxed and humorous tone is imprinted on the picture. This unique emotional perspective and style forces us to make specific responses to what we see and feel the magnified absurdity.
Like the way the director plays with the camera, the film is lively, relaxed and even a little lyrical in its emotional processing, delicate and full but not sensational, and it carries a huge emotional weight with the most common gratitude. The youthful breath and brilliant colors of the movie run through, searching for oneself in healing and being healed. Although there are contradictions and uncertainties, these are exactly where the adolescence lies. What happened to Greg because of Rachel may be very subtle. Internal changes, but profound changes in his external behavior and lifestyle, Greg warmed Rachel's last time, and Rachel also changed Greg's life.
In the admission essay, Greg wrote nervously, "I really want to go to college. I was not gregarious at all in high school, because of my rodent appearance, and because I have not been able to change my swearing habit. It’s totally unrecognizable. You just have to look at me and your dog’s eyes will be blinded immediately.” Rachel changed it to “When I was in high school, I was not used to showing my true self. In fact, I have never liked myself very much, but I think This is because I’m not mature enough, and university can help me grow.” In the first half of the film, Rachel has really started to walk into Greg’s heart, watch his movie and get to know him. The movie did not interpret Rachel’s small universe until she died. Later, Greg understood what Rachel played with the scissors to create. In the atmosphere where the director was not pretending to be sensational, the tear ducts began to relax when he saw here. With Rachel's narration, we saw a spiritual girl, she Her dream is to become a squirrel, eager to run into the forest. Human life has a continuation. After her death, Greg discovered so many new things about her, such as paper sculptures, squirrels, and the "spirit in the sky" in her mouth. ".
I really like the coloring of the scenery in the movie. The furniture layout and decoration are very good. The fresh pink, yellow, green and blue, the growing colors, and the visual effects are unified to fit the theme. In the later stage, the low saturation or blurred light and shadow colors are used to express delicate and intimate Relationship. The fascination plot of the movie fascinates the young people who love movies, and the design of the fascination complex happens to be an interesting angle of interpretation of the theme of the movie. I think every fanatic has a Greg in his heart, hoping that there will be a "collaborator" like Earl and an "audience" like Rachel. The director pays great attention to details, and the film is full of ingenuity. For example, when Greg called Rachel for the first time, "Taxi Driver" was shown on the TV, and Travis was also calling Betsy; for example, Uncle Hugh really came to do it. Put the sound string; for example, the final shot including the composition, a tribute to the 2001 Space Odyssey.
Both the male and female protagonists play well, and there is a kind of spoiling for the male protagonist's narration. As a means of expressing temperature, the perfect combination of the childishness in the early stage and the gentle emotion in the later stage makes Grey handsome after listening to the voice. Ps, Greg’s film for Rachel means blood and cells. The extraction and reorganization is like a small life longing for rebirth. It is a metaphor for a warm hope for the cure of Rachel’s “blood cancer”. Some people think that this movie can't afford the Sundance Double Awards, but I think it is the most perfect independent movie I have seen this year. Finally, I sigh, the young people who play art are so charming!
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