My friend recommended this movie before, but I have been faintly worried about the word "checkmate" in the title. I feel that it is too heavy to be watched until now, so that I missed this good movie for so long.
This movie has a lot of similarities with "Get Out, Tumor". The theme is death and companionship, and both have a certain comedy treatment. When I watched "Tumor", I felt that it was already a top-of-the-middle work in mainland movies. , The movie-watching experience is very satisfying, but after watching "Me and Earl" today, I was quite shocked in my heart: other youth films are already at this level, what are our youth films still studying? People's life and death discussions have reached this level, and we are still busy with sensationalism.
There are no abortions, no pains, no gimmicks, no big scales, or even love in this little fresh and youthful movie. The three high school students have a very plain tone, each character has a personality and a bit of a weird temperament, but they are all very cute. The girl was seriously ill, and the boy was forced by his mother to accompany the girl. The two got along better and better, but the girl became more and more ill.
Boy and black partner Earl’s biggest hobby is to make short films. When they decide to make a short film for a girl, they feel that the film is not good at all. What the final short film looks like is also a suspense throughout the second half. In the end, the boy was in a neat suit and took the filmed short film to the hospital for the girl. The white walls of the hospital were colorful, like a curtain call to life. The girl opened her eyes and exhausted her last effort to watch the game. Movies only related to her, and then passed away. This section is really too powerful, like spectacles, the spectacle of life and images, the illusion and colorful pictures on the wall, just like a beautiful life, all the changing pictures are like magic, The boy standing in the picture has also become a part of the girl's life. From here, I couldn't control my emotions at all and cried loudly.
In retrospect, there are many dying dialogues in "Tumor". Rather than saying that the lines are brilliant and sad and jerking, it is better to say that the situation dictates. In "Me and Earl", I strongly feel that the film is the art of sound and light. , The amazing charm that the video can convey. In the last part of the girl's curtain call, the dialogue is not needed, and the creator did not deliberately sensationalize. However, the scene image is so powerful that it has such a strong shock and impact, it is enough. The power hits your heart, leaving you powerless to resist, and you can only surrender. This power is far more turbulent than the line dialogue.
There is a movie I have never had the courage to watch the second time. It is a Taiwanese movie called "Seven Days of Father and Daughter". It talks about death at a funeral, but it is a comedy with laughter and trouble, and "I and Earl". Similarly, this movie has the ability to hit you hard in an inadvertent moment. I remember the girl in "Father's Seventh" went to the photo shop to get the portrait of her father. It took a lot of effort to study how to get it. There is a comedy effect, but when she carried the portrait of her father and went away on her motorcycle, she was filled with sadness for an instant. The shock was too strong, there was no language, no sensation, and only the pictures were enough. It was so shocking that even though I have not had the courage to watch "The Seven Days of the Queen Father" again after so many years, I will never forget it and I will often recall this scene.
Life and death are the most difficult to survive. When the theme of a movie is related to death, it is actually a lot of psychological pressure. Sensation and restraint are also problems for creators. Frankly speaking, "Tumor" is already in China. The film language can be regarded as a work of restraint, if other directors shoot, it will definitely be a "tear-gas artifact", unrestrained (see "Tangshan Earthquake"), but compared with "I and Earl", this The film is not only a little worse in state, but also several blocks in restraint.
The boy’s lie in "Me and Earl" throughout "Don't worry, she survived, she recovered, everything is fine for her", is to make the tone of the film more relaxed, I also believe this lie, and always take it easy To watch, the more relaxed the front, the more shocking the end.
And in the end, the girl’s book world was opened, as if she had met this person again, what a good girl this is, how could she die, how cute, how ingenious, how patient, why only A movie time to get to know you? Too little.
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