Rock is either grandstanding or self-licking

Ezra 2022-03-22 09:02:11

I was mentally prepared before watching this film, it might be with "Velvet Goldmine". The same is about rock, the same insolence, the same love and sex, the same sex, the same sex, indulging in music dreams and life lost.
Generally speaking, the film can still be watched, and of course it can also arouse a little resonance with me. Of course, it cannot be compared with "The Swan". If the director wants to talk about the relationship between pain and rock and roll, then only the subject of drugs, alcoholism and promiscuity that has been played is really not attracting much attention.
"Youth Pain Story" is something that many movies focus on, and various themes emerge one after another. Rock and roll is manic and restless, venting loneliness and depression, and what it needs is freedom and wildness. Probably this is a portrait of a young man. So this group of little women grew up in rock and roll.
Cris sings "hello mum hello daddy i'm your ccccc cherry bomb" in it. Although I don't hear much American rock, I can hear the pure American flavor in it. Unrestrained, provocative, and somewhat chaotic. Compared with this, I prefer Nordic things, calm and cruel, and always have a noble attitude.
Pull away. The movie seems to be missing something to think about, to dig deep enough. I watched "The Swan" at that time, but I was depressed for many days. Maybe the pain wasn't enough.

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Extended Reading
  • Kevon 2022-04-22 07:01:39

    Drugs, alcohol, tattoos, rock, blood, roaring, moaning, love, erosion, foul language. That's what life at Runaways is all about. In fact, the soul of Runaways is John Jett, but she only lays out the green leaves of Cherry. The last part of Kristen lying in the bathtub was amazing. I don't like Fanning's heavy makeup look.

  • Leo 2022-04-23 07:02:59

    Rock and roll is not something you can play if you want to. When Fanning was in the car listening to slow songs and Christine dismissed it with disdain, I knew they would break up.

The Runaways quotes

  • Kim Fowley: Dog shit! Urine-stained dog shit! Rock 'n' roll is a blood sport, a sport of men. It's for the people in the dark, the death cats, the masturbators, the outcasts who have no voice, no way of saying "I hate this world, my father's a faggot, fuck you, fuck authority - I want an orgasm!" Now, growl! Moan! This ain't women's lib, kiddies - this is women's libido! I wanna see the scratch marks down their fucking backs! Now, do it again. Again. Like your boyfriend just fucked your sister in your parent's bed. Like you want a fucking orgasm!

  • Joan Jett: No man, I like "Airplane" better. "Jefferson Starship" sounds like a fucking Disney ride or something.

    Cherie Currie: My mother's gonna kill me. She's gonna take a gun and kill me. Don't you guys have any kind of curfew?

    Joan Jett: Nah, my dad split. He was the strict one.

    Cherie Currie: Yeah? Mine left, too. Well, he didn't really leave, ah, he was kicked out and replaced.

    Joan Jett: Do you take the garbage out now?

    Cherie Currie: Yeah. Well, me and my sister.

    Joan Jett: Yeah, me too.