It took a lot of hard work to finally watch Struck by Lightning, and when I was sitting in the theater, when the first act came out, I was so excited that I wanted to cry. I know this is a sad story, so I want to cry even more, and I have a lot of mood swings today. As a result, I cried all over the place. At the end of the last scene, I actually wanted to burst into tears, but I managed to restrain myself from making a sound, but ended up lying on my friend's shoulder and crying until I couldn't stop crying.
This is a movie that is not afraid of spoilers (and I won't spoil it here, of course), but don't worry, even if you already know what the story is about, it won't affect your viewing of this movie at all. Because the focus of SBL is not the plot and the outcome, unlike the Hollywood blockbuster, it will only make people think "what's next?" "What's the outcome?" But SBL tells you the end of the story from the very beginning. . It is even said that the ending of the story has long been known, which is an open secret. No matter how well you know the mere plot and ending of the story. These have little to do with what Chris's film wants to express. So rest assured, please, enjoy every second of this movie.
Every minute is so wonderful. Too many details to make people laugh and move. Every tiny detail makes me feel pain in every nerve in my bone marrow. The sense of resonance allowed that sadness to permeate my whole body, and I looked at the screen as if I was watching my own story. After the movie, my friend E said to me: The scene just now always reminds me of you.
I didn't know how to write at once, there was so much to say, and there was so much to express in this film.
First of all, since this is an independent film, it is very different from the Hollywood blockbuster in the theater. The most direct feature is that there are a lot of dialogues and monologues. Hollywood commercial blockbusters will focus on "what the audience wants to see" in the production; while independent films will focus on "what the creator wants to express". So perhaps in many cases, independent films do not have such a wide audience, but their artistic value increases due to the dedication of their creators. So SBL is the same. SBL is not created to "get the audience's attention", but Chris himself wants to express the story he created and the feelings he wants to show. Therefore, the plot setting and ending setting of SBL will not be specially set to satisfy the audience. More than that, chris wrote it because chris wanted to. I'm obsessed with movies like this because they're not about winning the hearts of others, they're more about showing individual charisma, and SBL really shines brightly.
The script itself is undoubtedly one of the biggest highlights of SBL. There are a lot of dialogues and monologues. Most of the dialogues are witty and humorous, and most of the monologues are slightly melancholy and thought-provoking. The previous scene also provoked the audience hahahaha, the next scene immediately jumped into a sad tone, and the next scene immediately made the audience laugh wildly with the next line, so connected, so repeated and so reincarnated, just like, real life. Such a script is completely Chris's style. Chris is such a person. When he mentions a heavy topic, the next second he will immediately have a joke to make the atmosphere of the session (although there will also be a cold joke). The narrative mode of the film is also completely in this style, and the camera is also happy and sad, watching the audience laugh and cry for a while, overwhelmed. He put a lot of effort into the dialogue, and the laughter throughout the whole place was full of laughter, which is true. Almost every sentence, every shot will have a laugh. Although it is an independent film, not a single frame is wasted. The lens connection is also very tight.
The storyline also runs through multiple lines, [mainly the school line and the family line] several lines complement each other and influence each other. It is not convenient to spoil the details here. Also very interesting is the portrayal of the characters. As Polly said on Panel Talk before, each character is alive, very full of its own characteristics and complex personalities, each character is very representative, each character represents a type of person, you You will always meet such people. They may be you, your relatives, or your close friends. You will always find the resonance you know in those characters in SBL. Then you look at their stories as if, looking in a mirror, are as real.
For me, who is already familiar with Chris Colfer's acting skills, I am still shocked by his acting skills in SBL. First of all, Carson is a completely different character from Kurt (nonsense), Chris is an actor who has his whole heart on whoever plays, he just lends his body to the character, and then tries his best to show everything about the character, so that the audience can Feel that Carson is not just a character on the screen, but a living person standing in front of you. You'll be as stunned and stunned by such a real person as any other character on the show. Chris uses his acting skills to pull the audience into his film. You are not just an audience. You are one of the characters in this film. You look at Carson in front of you, and Carson looks at you. You know, that's real.
Although this is only a movie describing a life of a high school student, the expression and content of this movie have overwhelmed those high-grossing commercial blockbusters, and what this movie shows satirizes contemporary society and society. most of the people living in this society. He uses his own way to tell you what is most important in life. [I can even feel chris' beliefs, (chris went to church with his grandmother since he was a child, and he must have received a lot of religious education, so I think he recognizes the existence of religion. But chris has his own ideas since he was a child, he Trying to express his thoughts. Although he knows that religiously, death is the end for everyone. But the end is not the most important part of life, it is how the process of life blooms.)] Just like the beginning of this film, Carson was struck by lightning. This is the beginning and the end. SBL tells you the ending at the beginning. He is saying: the ending of the story is not important, the important thing is... the
process.
Years later, when people recall the past, the most impressive thing is often not the results, but the process of continuous efforts. In front of the process, failure and success have become extremely small.
However, contemporary values focus more on results. For example, reading a story, people will be more eager to focus on the results. Relatively neglected blooming of the process. Therefore, the process of these stories has become to serve the result, and thus forget that the most important thing in everything is not the result, but the process. In fact, the result is nothing more than success or failure, but the process has twists and turns, going through thousands of times.
SBL is such a movie, it has nothing to do with the outcome, what SBL blooms is the whole process, the whole process. The whole year of Carson Phillips' life, every minute and every second. So even if he was struck to death by lightning in the last scene, he still smiled, because his life process had already blossomed, and he had no regrets, and everything turned out to be clouds.
People will eventually die. The difference is, in this fleeting life, whether I have fully bloomed my own color, the moment of life is like a flash of lightning. life
comes at you fast
it runs though your body
and
tries to escape
and be expressed in any way possible and
tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible it
's a lot
like
lightning , is your life blooming? No regrets.
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