dark night,
I can see my color,
a clean child,
without despair,
because broken,
looking up to the sky.
——The inscription
"The Years of the Dog Face", this Swedish film directed by Lesser Holstrom and filmed in 1985, really attracted itself at first because of its unique title, which is full of historical vicissitudes for the years. The most bizarre metaphor I have ever seen comes from a poem by Taiwanese poet Yan Xian in "The Abyss": "The years, the years of the cat's face; the years, the years of clinging to the wrist, the years of semaphore." Therefore, for such The name that draws people's hearts drives me to decide to take a look at it.
During the nearly two-hour viewing process, I was completely moved by the sincere and warm prose-like story of the film. It is undoubtedly a classic, and today there are differences in both countries and age levels. , the film can still be widely recognized by us. Its success lies in transcending those vulgar melodrama models, abandoning sensational narrative methods, and using a child's perspective to gain insight into the world of the surrounding adults, thus making this children's film full of more humane care.
In life, we are always running all the way, and eager to find a face similar to us in the crowded crowd, hoping that he has a similar fate to us, then we can see the reference of our own life in him, where to go from now on, No longer so rushed. In "The Years of the Dog Face", on the eleven- or twelve-year-old child named Ingmar, we seem to see the shadow of our childhood, and relive the points in our childhood that have disappeared in the long river of time. Bit by bit.
It turns out that we all used to be those melancholy, strong, intelligent or stubborn children.
When we were young, our mother Lei Ting was furious because of our recklessness and got into trouble, chasing and beating us all the way;
When we were young, we also had an inexplicable affection for the little girl or boy next door;
when we were young, we also liked to play "playing house" with our companions and excitedly acted as each other's little bride and little groom;
When we were young, we looked up at the starry sky and wondered what kind of mystery the unreachable universe had.
We also told our beloved mothers our interesting stories when we were young, and we still remember them to this day. Her hearty laughter; when we were young, we
had a vague understanding of "sex", and listened to the older child's serious introduction to relevant physiological knowledge;
A profound sense of helplessness, fear and anxiety.
The film observes the world of adults through the eyes of Ingmar, a child. At the same time, in this process, he also becomes an adult little by little, and in this process of change, he will experience the bitterness and sorrow brought by his growth one by one. .
He often thinks that it is wrong to send the dog named Laika to space just for the sake of human progress and cause it to starve to death at last, neither asking for its consent nor giving enough dog food;
He often thinks that if his mother didn't read so many books and think so many questions, she wouldn't get sick, she could still lead him and his brother to play with laughter and hearty laughter, and she could still see her beautiful and moving mother on the pale golden beach his smile;
he often comforts himself by means of comparison, always encouraging himself that there are many worse things in his life, that he is still lucky, and thus mustering up the courage to face life again;
just like youth movies always start with Love comes to enlightenment, and death is a sign of growth. For a child, two catalysts are often needed in the process of growth, one is the explanation of love, and the other is the enlightenment of sex.
In the former, Ingmar has always been missing. His father was carrying bananas near the equator. He has always used this reason to comfort his young heart for the regret caused by the lack of father's love; the sick mother could not control her emotions. , Because of his naughty, he is often angry, crying, and almost hysterical; his brother often teases him. In such a family, he cannot get the tolerance and tender love he deserves.
Sending him and his brother away may be the best way for his sick mother, and it was in that summer, in the small town where his uncle lived, that he spent an interesting summer vacation and met various people in the town. Such anecdotes: Fang Song, who drives nails on the roof one day at night, has a grandfather Avicson who is lying in a hospital bed and asks him to read advertisements for women's underwear in magazines without letting others know about it, and a sculpture who does not give up his artistic pursuit. At home, there are playmates with green hair, beautiful female workers who act as mannequins in factories, and fire workers who perform bicycle acrobatics for the people in the town every day. They are kind and simple, and their happy and harmonious life infects him.
But what he kept talking about was still the dog Sika and the mother on the hospital bed. He still remembered that time when he couldn't wait to call his mother, but because there was not enough coins, he only said a few words and then disconnected, put down the receiver, he was lost. He walked out of the phone booth slowly, and the warm and humid memories of being on the beach with his mother reappeared in the gray air.
All this child needs is love. But the scene about mother's love on the beach has become his eternal memory and a dream that cannot be relived again. Before he sent out the toaster for his mother's Christmas gift, his mother left forever. Since then, his world has been lonely and wandering.
I returned to the town where my uncle was once again. Grandpa Avison passed away, Mrs Avison moved out, and the basement was rented to a few Greeks. Uncle said the house was too crowded and asked him to live with Mrs Avison. Accidentally learns that the pet dog Sika, who has always been in love with him, has already died in the kennel. Yes, that summer was fleeting and everything was different.
Once he projected himself as his pet dog Sika, in order to escape the impact of the outside world and protect himself. It was not until he became clear about the fact that Sika died in the foster house that he bid farewell to his childhood in a real sense - his childhood as a dog.
For the latter, from the former little playmate "Little Frog" to the beautiful busty female worker in the factory, to Shajia, who likes to disguise herself as a man and has an extremely athletic body, his gender consciousness is awakening little by little. There, from her hostility to gender to the point of deliberately delaying the arrival of normal female developmental traits, to eventual self-identity and, in the process, her fondness for Ingmar, it is in her During this process of development and change, as Ingmar, who has always been there and accompanied her, faced with the fact that the girl's sexual characteristics have changed more and more, he really began to face up to the problem of his own identity, and he was able to grow up slowly. stand up.
In the process of growing up full of pain and parting, he lost the most precious thing in his life, and then slowly found a new focus in his life and rediscovered the things he should cherish. There are escapes, confusion, and confusion. , as Mrs. Arjunsen said in the film: "It's good to have a partner. We will depend on each other in the future. Sometimes life is difficult, and it's hard to be alone." In the crumpled white paper, some things can only be done by one person; some barriers can only be passed by one person; some roadblocks can only be walked by one person. After all, we will have no one to rely on and nothing to worry about. , our own sadness, only come out by ourselves, we can only grow up slowly alone, and experience the brokenness in the growth.
At the end of the film, a match between the Swedish and German football teams is being broadcast on the radio, and the Swedish team wins, and the men of the town burst out of the house, cheering "Long live Sweden", while Ingmar hugs Sha Jia fell asleep on the sofa listening to the radio, and Fang Song, still returning to the roof, continued to work on the clouds. Maybe this is the original appearance of life. Although pain and thorns are indispensable, everyone has to face it and grow up, because life goes on.
In our ordinary and vague growth process, it is not only easy laughter and fun, but in the slow progress of time day after day, there is a lot of pain like pushpins, as the rolling rings are Digging into our hearts, we have all left stains in the years of growing up, and we have also been rebellious, reckless, and reckless in the process of growing up.
The process of growing up is really miserable. The innocent and romantic smile we once had will suddenly disappear without a trace on a sudden day, and there will be a day when the thin figure we once had bumped in the sunset. In the faint dusk, I finally couldn't find myself. But I have to admit that this is the price to pay for growth. Maybe this is what "The Years of the Dog Face" wants to teach us. Our life is to continue for the sake of forbearance, to lose for growth, to gain a little bit in the loss, and to enrich ourselves a little bit in the confusion.
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