The movie begins with a comical desperation, Billy has nowhere to go out of prison, but there are walls everywhere to go to the toilet. His parents are selfish and irresponsible; his mother doesn't remember his allergy to chocolate, and doesn't care about the story of his encounter with Leah. In his heart, he is not as important as a football game; his father gave the only dog he loved when he was a child to cruelty and left, He wanted to lie to his mother to live the Fancy life, but in fact lived a terrible life of being framed and imprisoned for his obsession with getting the love and care of his parents.
Billy met the girl he fell in love with in middle school, the girl he knew in kindergarten, who used to wait for her to look out of her window to see him, and still put her picture in the "past" locker, but she was getting married , happy like a madman, every word and every laugh of hers was a mockery of Billy. Billy's best friend is also the only friend who appears in the movie and only "Silly Boy", and Billy also said on the phone that he was called a silly boy because he was stupid and ugly, and why did Billy and silly boy Friends or even good friends, friends who understand teenage communication will know that Billy himself is also the object of being excluded and ridiculed by everyone. This can be seen from Billy's shy appearance in the hotel, he doesn't like others to touch him, pays attention to privacy, and hugs himself tightly in the bathtub.
Billy hides himself, hides his sensitivity and cares with anger, and his past, which he is proud of and remembered can only be hidden in the locker of the bowling alley. He can only get that little sense of fulfillment and control over his life by yelling at idiots, by giving orders to Leah, and the only bowling ball that knows how. The painful cry he cried in the toilet of Dany's restaurant was really heartbreaking, and the words "help me" and "no, I want to die" were what he really looked like under his hard exterior.
Watching Buffalo 66, Billy's feelings are always mixed with sympathy and hatred. This is also Billy's own feelings about himself. He feels helpless for his bad life, but unconsciously uses anger and sharp thorns to control others. Get the security and control you need.
What I like most about the whole movie is the way the director conveys Billy's inner feelings. Billy kept repeating his request, so much that I wanted to turn off the player. "Shut up" and "Do you know what a luxury car is?" kept repeating during the hijacking; "It's always at you, it's always at you." at the dinner table at home; "It's always at you, it's always at you." June's, sandwiched between May and July is June"; and "Don't make a face, I just want the photo to look like we are in love, we are having fun" but he himself is full of grief . He was confused, he didn't know what to do, he thought killing the man who put him in jail would make him feel better, he wanted to make his parents proud and praise him for giving him the love he never got, but he didn't Knowing what to do, he felt like he had to do it, but he was telling himself that it couldn't be done. But this is probably the feeling that the director wants to convey, Billy's psychological feelings - irritability, overwhelm, wanting to "turn off the player" but also know that "turning off the player" will not help, the irritability and other emotions are still there Your heart will not go away.
The movie focuses on Billy as a character, and Leah is as impractical as the love that saves everything, whether she is on the scene or accompanied by Billy all the way down. The character change of Billy is set three-quarters of the way through the movie, and despite the foreshadowing ahead, it still feels too abrupt.
I don't know if the ending should be a cure or a disappointment. Seeing the stop-motion photography of Billy shooting the blood out of his brain at the moment, the artistic effect is self-evident, and the dark humor of his parents' unrepentant appearance in front of his grave is also very interesting, but he actually used this film The characteristic appearance of subjective imagination broke this ending and gave an ending that turned into dust in seconds because of the love storm. Such an ending is "positive", but perhaps why I sneered at it and hated it. Now society advocates positive energy every day, but does not provide practical guidance on how to solve "negative energy". Can it really be eliminated just by adjusting emotions, just like the influence of Billy's childhood on him in "Buffalo 66" Is it true that an unexplained "love" that came suddenly and annihilated ashes? I refuse to accept such unrealistic beauty floating in the air. (That's why I didn't take this movie as a movie about "the greatness of love" at the beginning.)
This could have been a movie with a strong impact and a realistic social theme, but it was rejected by the final fairy tale. The ending was broken, and it turned into a touching movie that you can't stop crying. If possible, I'll pinch off the back of the movie to make you feel sad.
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