Sofia Coppola also dabbled in this genre. Directors who have a soft spot for such subjects often have an unruly youth or an unruly heart. "Jewelry" adapted a blockbuster teen burglary. Several teenage students successfully ransacked the villas of several Hollywood celebrities in Beverly Hills, including Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Megan Fox, Rachel • Bilson et al, who stole over $3 million worth of valuables. It's a pity that the reputation of this movie is so mediocre that it's hard to believe that this director has ever made "Lost in Translation." And "Lost in Translation" shows the emotional scene of a man and a woman who want to talk and say no, and refuse to welcome.
The overriding problem with "Jewelry" is the film's ambiguous approach to juvenile delinquency. Since it is the subject of juvenile delinquency, the film needs to give an attitude. Even a film with a zero-degree perspective like "The Elephant" also brings an uneasy feeling to the audience through handheld photography. Although Sofia Coppola claims that she wants to express the story objectively, there is no objectivity in feature films. The choice of story, the way of narration, the style of video, etc. all represent a certain attitude. When the teenagers successfully steal, attend classmates parties, take drugs and dance, and their shallow hearts cannot hide their huge passion for showing off, the film uses a long slow motion, maybe the director wants to convey a decadent atmosphere. However, the frequent slow motion, close-up, and fragmented scenes like MV not only failed to convey the original intention, but made us feel that the director was not recording or objective, but was appreciating and showing off his wealth. Close-up of those beautiful faces for a long time, coupled with slow motion, we do not see the director's sympathy or criticism, but what we see is the obsession with youth. Here's the problem, you can be neutral about this juvenile delinquency subject matter, but you can never appreciate it. Moreover, looking at the whole film, the director's attitude is obviously inclined to criticize this side. So, when the movie tells us that this is not good, and at the same time can't help but stop and admire it, the audience starts to be at a loss and can't figure out what the movie is going to say. The split values will inevitably fail to organically unify the film into a whole.
Literary and artistic creation is not like our literary criticism. Literary criticism has its own set of routines, and all the achievements of our predecessors are valuable resources that we can use. Literary and artistic creation is just the opposite. All previous paths to success are traps. What we need to do is not to continue, but to try to avoid the successful experience of our predecessors. But can it be successful just by avoiding it? maybe. If "Jewelry" penetrates into the hearts of teenagers, digs out their motives for crime, criticizes their money worship, and then criticizes the impetuousness, short-sightedness of the whole society, and the harm of the entertainment industry to teenagers, it may be able to shoot deeply and justly, but it There are no features. Sofia Coppola may be trying to avoid this cliché, but she has fallen into another misunderstanding. She took this story very superficially. You see the glittering surface, but you can't see the heart of the person. There is no essential difference between the thefts in chronological order, we do not see any difference between going to Paris Hilton's house and going to Lindsay Lohan's house - both are luxury villas, both It's a house full of brand names; and no change in the relationships between the teens - no more intimacy, no more estrangement. After stealing, the same is a party, the same is a show of wealth, the same is a drug-addicting dance. Perhaps when the director piled up the material, hoping to deepen the sins of the teenagers, it backfired, making the first half of the film monotonous and lengthy.
So, the film gives us the feeling that the director is fascinated by the appearance of the story, unable to think deeply and find his own way. Maybe she thinks that the thieves have all stole from Paris Hilton's house, they all stole from Lindsay Lohan's house, and even Lindsay Lohan, who is also guilty of stealing, lives with the thief who stole her own home. In the same cell, isn't such a story enough to catch someone? Isn't it sensational enough? Do you need to dig deeper? But appearances are appearances, and they can only be superficial, not deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
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