Drive
out of the city
Away from
the crowds I thought "Heaven can't help me now " So Nothing lasts forever But this is gonna take me down But this is gonna take me down but the reality still makes me unstoppably depressed - "Wildest Dreams" escape, maybe the end of the old, maybe the new beginning; maybe the cowardly escape , or perhaps quite the opposite, is our terrific effort to get out of our bad reality. As Taylor Swift's "Wildest Dreams" sings, it's only in an uninhibited dream that we can live the life we aspire to. But we don't live in dreams forever, so escape can only be temporary. A perfect escape must begin with chaos and end with new hope. Alice, the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote a short story called "Escape", about the heroine Carla escaped from her existing life under the dual pressure of marriage and livelihood, but finally found that life ends. It's life, whether you like it or not, you can't escape, at least change it within your ability, or try to adapt to it, try not to be overwhelmed by the weight of life. It is a pity that many people can realize it, but they are unable to change it. They either go with the flow or passively avoid the world.
"Summer King" tells such a story about escape. In the face of irreconcilable contradictions with their parents, adolescent young people choose to escape: patriarchal tyranny, difficult to understand our way of life, and it is useless to reason with them, either resign or walk away. The protagonist in the film chose the latter. The three boys leave home in anger and build their new home in an untouched place. At the beginning, I could only position them as three arrogant children with strong hands-on ability, and three angry youths who were extremely dissatisfied with reality: searching for construction waste, picking and choosing, and working hard to build a hut in the forest; but they still had to Stealing tools from the house, then looting their father's wallet - in short, they can't make any changes to reality except to escape independently.
As the plot gradually develops, the boys encounter various difficulties: they can't find food, they have conflicts with their friends, the house is damaged, and they encounter poisonous snakes... Like most youth movies, they overcome all kinds of difficulties, and they finally end up with their parents. Reconciliation, back to real life. Life in the woods in summer is like a fresh and charming dream, and at the end of the summer, the boys must wake up from the dream.
Everyone has had the fantasy of escaping, and although it is another matter to put it into practice, it is also very interesting to reminisce the dreams of these three boys, as if I were in their dreams, Live that free life with them. From the interesting "kidnapping letter" designed at the beginning to the declaration when the hut was built, these seemingly small details fully reflect their creativity and gradually formed sense of responsibility.
"We solemnly swear by the pain of losing our friendship that we will never talk about this to any grown-up, and we will never reveal this location and all participants. From now on, we will hunt by ourselves, build our own houses, and be our own masters."
This is The strongest voice of young people is also the code of conduct for boys in the future.
The picture of "King of Summer" is very beautiful, and the composition and light and shadow of each frame reveal a strong literary atmosphere. Although it is a somewhat crazy summer story, under the lens of director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the film is tranquil and quiet, which is very suitable for watching quietly when alone, and then letting your thoughts drift to a time and space of your own , where it becomes its own master.
There is a very interesting "pole dance" in the play. Three boys who are kings of the mountain beat the rhythm on the abandoned steel pipe in the forest, dance freely, and release their nature. The boys were free to commit 2 in the forest, pretending to be mature, giggling, and then growing up. This should have been a long process. The director shortened such a long process into a summer, into the most vibrant season, and then told us: growth without being stupid is not normal growth, cherish the moment, be fearless, You are the king of summer.
The ending of the film is that Piaggio, who was acting weird in the eyes of the audience, after asking his father about friendship, he stood between the poisonous snake and his friend to protect his friend, but was accidentally bitten by a poisonous snake. The three friends were in Piaggio. In the case of poisoning, I realized how precious the time they spent together in the forest was, and finally released the previous suspicion. I have always been curious about why the screenwriter wanted to create such a taciturn and strange character as Piaggio. It is obviously difficult for such a person to integrate into the group, but only later did I understand: without a worldly vision, you don’t need to care about the group, the summer woods are an absolute A free Utopia is a wonderful place we should all aspire to!
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