Daniel wants to find his father, who has never been masked, but Clark has no goal. The only driving force that drives him to flee with Daniel is the fear of his father's fist. On the way, they met a stripper named Joel. In order to let Clark and Joel have a spring night, Daniel spent the only cash on them. The desperate two people participate in a striptease contest held in a local bar, but Daniel's hard-working performance on stage is greeted with booing. It turns out that this is GAY, no matter how MAN he looks, he is GAY. In a hurry, Daniel pushed Clark onto the stage. This fat man covered in flesh was completely immersed in his own world on stage. When he woke up, he not only won a $50 bonus, but also welcomed an angry father. .
I haven't watched movies about youth for a long time, because they are either too bitter or too exaggerated, and they are too far from my youth. My youth is bland and tasteless. I envy the ups and downs of youth in the movies. I don’t want to watch it because I’m so envious. It probably doesn’t matter. I thought Dirty Girl was the story of a rebellious girl who braves the world, but when I saw Daniel trying so hard to look like a good girl in order to meet his father, I knew I was wrong after all. Daniel finally accepted this society's default norm, otherwise what else could it be? The father who was looking forward to seeing her already had a happy family. She could only hold back her tears and return to her mother, who had always hated her. She cried and said, "I'm so stupid."
The changed Daniel had a cowardly and dodging look in his eyes, the principal allowed her to return to the normal class, she just smiled reluctantly, perhaps not happy with the decision. She misses Clark dearly, singing his favorite songs in a tone-deaf voice for him at school concerts. She told everyone that it was a song dedicated to the father of the child.
In the end, the story had a happy ending to most people. Clark was picked up by his mother from the military school and sang the song "Don't cry out loud" with Daniel. They fled the scene quickly after the show, and Clark was dissatisfied with Daniel's conservative outfit. So Daniel messed up his hair and put on exaggerated big sunglasses. They drove off campus with their favorite music playing, just as they had set out with "Joan."
The future life of Daniel and Clark may be on the right track as their parents hoped, and the mania and confusion of youth will eventually be washed away by the years. Maybe life is like this, we fought and compromised all the way, and finally completely compromised. But youth, like the pattern tattooed on the body, cannot be completely removed no matter what. Until the old age, there will still be faint traces left on the aging skin.
The mother character in the movie is also quite interesting. Mila plays Daniel's beautiful and somewhat stupid-looking mother, and at first I thought the setting of the film would be that her frivolity, debauchery, and irresponsibility caused Daniel's hatred of her. But aside from dating an older Mormon man, she doesn't seem to have done much. In fact, after finding out she was pregnant, she made a strong choice to raise her daughter alone. Seeing this, I kind of understand why men mostly like women without brains, probably because they pay more attention to the happy aspects of life rather than the sad things.
Clark's mother is my favorite character, but unfortunately the director didn't dig deep into her, so her attitude change seemed a bit sudden. Maybe it's because I like the bloody plot of Housewife's counterattack too much, and the process of her counterattack is too smooth, so there is no bright spot.
Finally, what is the significance of the bag of flour named "Joan" in the film. To say it didn't play a big role in the return of Daniel and Clark, it was just a bystander, a witness. Its quietly changing expression records the youth along the way.
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