Watching movies is the second category. Even after throwing it away for a long time, when I look back and plunge into it, it is still very warm and comfortable. That feeling of relaxation at home that movies can bring to me.
Today I watched "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl". After watching it, I scanned a three-minute short video, which is a dialogue between the director and Martin Scorsese, about the movie's parody and tribute to the classics. The appearance is a spoof. For example, A Clockwork Orange becomes A Sockwork Orange. In fact, I think it can be matched with the word that Greg and Earl repeatedly emphasized, and then evolve into Wow Orange (A). Suckwork Orange).
And the Clockwork Orange I mentioned, there are many similar posters and shots. The spoof of Rashomon is also quite interesting.
After watching it, I dragged the progress bar and hurried through it again. I wanted to count the number of classic adaptations that appeared in the film. It turned out to be much more than the first time I watched it. After carefully reading the legendary 42 works, I found that the director probably liked Kubrick, Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese mentioned at the beginning. Many of the books on the shelf are from the above. director's work.
Earl and Greg, did all the work of the portfolio, director, screenwriter, photography, service, and even the actors. If there is one missing link, it is probably Xuanfa.
Later, their team came to a tap-style announcement. It's the girl who invited Greg to the graduation prom, the girl who smells of ripe and sweet oranges. She suggested Greg make a movie for Rachel. And thanks to her and Earl's efforts, Rachel knew about this plan in advance - and it seems that it was gradually known by the classmates. Greg's desire to be invisible begins to shatter.
Four months is not a short period for a short film. Greg's "team", after experiencing external and internal difficulties, finally presented the short film to Rachel ten hours before her death. Then she began to faint and died.
Arbitrarily and without confidence, Greg's team's 43rd film should be the best he's ever made. One made him willing to take it out. Although it was still whatever, it was finally not a part of sucks. When Greg, Earl, Dennis, all the people who loved Rachel came out on the screen, they laughed, drank drinks, made the usual expressions and movements, and the flow of colors, clay, confetti, strips of cloth, Everything is in harmony with the melody and rhythm. When a little bit appears in front of you, Greg's identity as a movie fanatic, and the love for movies it contains begins to have vitality.
Movies are the magic of time. Last year was "Boyhood" and this year is "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl." The film presents the story while freezing time. The two times on and off the screen are separated from each other and blend in with each other. She makes you forget and sink you.
The girl who encouraged them to make a movie for Rachel was amazing. The glamour of the movie is very moving when Rachel takes off her wig. Great gift.
The subject of terminal illness has become a big hit in China this year, that is, the prosperous tumor gentleman a while ago. The first person of Tumor Jun is Xiong Dun who has lymphoma. And the first person of this film, that is, the owner of most of the narration, is not Rachel, a leukemia patient, but Greg, who hates him very much.
—because this is not a hospice story. It doesn't teach us how to overcome despair, it doesn't teach us how to be a good terminally ill patient. It still cares about the topic closely related to time, and also the topic that has never been abandoned by the movie - youth.
American teen movies are always fascinating. Or not teen films, because they express more than just a focus on teens either. It's more of a state of compassion and love for a fragile state. Many similar movies suddenly appeared in my mind. When I watched it, I couldn't put it down without exception. When I recalled it, it was roughly the same mentality as when I opened a movie: the sense of security of being understood and sympathetic.
Adolescence is difficult to define. The memory is always biased and extremely unstable. Sometimes I feel that the sun is overflowing, and sometimes I find many traces that are not without weirdness. At this time, many moments that have been occupied by inner demons began to emerge from the ground, as if ghost. A ghost that doesn't appear in the sun most of the time. A movie that makes you empathize is a movie that brings ghosts to life and sings a quiet song that turns those black shadows into pearly whites.
Greg hates himself so much. This has been said before. Later, he hated himself less and accepted himself the moment he put on the suit. The shift was actually the same as his first conversation with Rachel, not me doing you a favor, but asking you to do me a favor.
- If you don't promise to play with me, my mom will talk about my lack of sympathy to the point that I'm going crazy.
Rachel has always had enough courage to face the doomed part of her life. Greg's involvement graces the ending but complicates the process. This episode, which is subtitled "Failed Friendship" in the movie, helps Greg even more when the dust settles. It was Rachel who did him a favor, first freeing him from his mother's scolding and ending by letting him out of his own cage.
By the way, I don't understand why Greg doesn't love himself so much. The director did his best to make me meet a very lovely boy.
After Greg sent his work to the school, he received a gift from Rachel. A card, and a book. The inside pages of the book were hollowed out to make a book sculpture with "I", Earl and the dying girl sitting on the steps. He also found many such book sculptures in Rachel's room. Each book opened is a story, the kind of story that can be seen and touched, and has a very real feeling.
Just like the movie, those book sculptures are also casting magic on time, the existence in this universe that never stops for anyone. They are working hard to make the lives that have left us still leave some traces in this world, so that the living who love the dead can continue to move forward on the timeline.
As the history teacher said, many people's lives are gradually unfolded after his death.
The director wrote at the end of the film that the film was given to his deceased father. Come to think of it, this mystery has also been discovered. In the days after his death I heard new things from him one after another. Compensation for lost time.
With that in mind, there's no way not to love movies. So I also understand why every time I sit alone in the middle of the movie theater and face the huge black screen, I don't feel lonely. I also know why on every gloomy afternoon or night, when a person opens a movie, crying and laughing under the glow of the notebook, thinking about it, he will not feel any self-pity. Instead, it feels like being surrounded by the same tenderness as a mother. It is a thorough, understood, and deeply empathetic experience.
Because that's what the movie is trying to do. Time is limited, what she brings to you is the other side of time, the side you haven't had time to see. The pain is not healed, but it will not be easily forgotten.
Another thing Rachel said in the movie flashed through my mind. They always said that I didn't look ugly when I lost my hair, but they didn't know how sad that would make me. The youth that loses hair due to chemotherapy is undoubtedly ugly. This kind of ugliness will not become beautiful because one more best friend accompanies you to cut your hair with you. Always a hopeless death. It is in these details that Rachel's optimism is revealed, she frowns and laughs, but never laughs and weeps—never makes that pathetic look of pretending to be strong and optimistic. Terminally ill and bloody, but here, everything about Rachel is as kind as everyday. We are willing to accept it as a part of life.
Movies are mothers. In your stagnant wallflower teenage years, give you a space to settle down, turn back, sigh, and continue walking in the rush.
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Also, because of this consolation, even if you are a stranger in a foreign land alone, you will happily look at the moon and say that you will be together for thousands of miles.
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