other people's youth

Xavier is always talking to himself, my life is like a mess, we can ask ourselves, whose youth is not a mess? Who can live a well-organized and well-planned life at a young age. In the film, Xavier asks Englishman Wendy to go to a club for everyone to get together. Wendy is very interesting - I have to keep a diary, I can't go, I have to live "organized" ". In Europe, Germany aside, the British are the most organized, even if they mostly pretend to be. Then we, a well-organized lady, got involved with an American young man who likes to learn wolf howling in bed. The director is really the finishing touch, youth, youth, youth and orderliness are always two things The insulator is constant contact, constant feeling, constant yearning for the new, constant nostalgia for the old, constant encounters, constant separation, constant want to recognize, but constantly lost, endless joy, and There is an inescapable sadness... It's sleeping on the street after being drunk, it's the musical notes that accompany the guitar full of the square, it's the laughter that accompanies the quarrel, it's the feeling that I will always miss when I grow up.

Thank you ERASMUS for making Xavier this A group of young people can leave their hometowns, get together by chance in a strange place, and start a story that will be missed for a lifetime. Xavier's story unfolds in a small hotel in Barcelona, ​​where children come from the corners of Europa, and everyone stubbornly maintains their character at first: Italian casual, French merciless, Germany cute and rigid, England difficult The discarded pride of the empire... So it is inevitable that there will be running-in and quarrels. Everyone has to adapt to this Catalan-speaking Spain, make various compromises with the past life, adapt to the friends of the north and the south and the characters of the north and the south. Until the end, everyone unanimously ran in the corner of Barcelona, ​​panting, and lied for Wendy together. Until that moment, these young people may start to sit on the sofa and realize that in this world, even if the French can make the Academy (Fac) Become a British grass-mud horse (f**k), but the young people in this world are the same - angry but kind-hearted, different in appearance but entangled in their thoughts.

There is also a line in the film, which is a bit bitter, but so realistic - the love between Xavier and Martine is slowly and gradually cut open by the Pyrenees. In the end, Xavier and Martine kissed all over the street in Paris, but he was wandering on the street with tears in his eyes, "in Paris, but there are no Parisians around". In Barcelona, ​​Xavier also lingered with another woman for a while, they were standing high, looking at the Sagrada Familia, which was built for a long time but still under construction, Xavier put his arms around her waist, she, I think, she I must have been overwhelmed by love all of a sudden... Maybe youth is destined to be surrounded by love, and it must be surrounded by thick and burning love. This feeling requires constant review, so the distance is destined to be insurmountable by young couples .

The film was shot in 2002, the year the young European Union began to issue the euro, and these young faces are the countries behind them. They have gone through barbarism, through each other's aggression and conquest, through each other's enemies and two terrible wars. They began to come together, learn from each other, care for each other, and each country slowly took off its masks and painted other people's good-looking makeup. In the end, their children are French, British, German, Italian, Danish... Abandoning the past and accommodating each other is a means for the young EU to stand up, and it is also a motto for each of our young people.

This is the youth of the European Union and its children. In comparison, our youth is in a hurry for quick success. There is no blue sky and a flock of pigeons in the square... Even if you watch a movie and watch other people's lives, you are still worried about whether Time wasted because of not studying, but what counts as not wasting time?

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