■In the evening, after watching Leonardo DiCaprio's early juvenile crime drama "The Basketball Diaries" (US/1995), a film that fully interprets what is called "a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers" Youth acting masterpiece. At the age of 21, Xiao Lizi moved director Baz Luhrmann with his excellent performance in "The Diary of the Edge" and made him participate in the later famous punk version of "Romeo and Juliet", which eventually attracted the attention of the director. Under the eyes of the director James Cameron, he starred in the world-shaking "Titanic" and gradually entered the ranks of Hollywood's first-line male stars. It can be said that this 1995 "Edge Diary" has many similarities with the famous British movie "Trainspotting" in the same year. It also tells about the rampant drug abuse in the city, and also aims the sharp lens language at the degenerate streets. In contrast, director Scott Calvert's performance approach is closer to the inner monologue of the ignorant juvenile era and the practical significance of the event. This biographical film, adapted from the events of real people, reveals the struggle and redemption of four Manhattan basketball teenagers in a Catholic school after they stumbled into the vortex of drugs. , The unscrupulous instigation among bad friends, the bad influence of distorted social people on teenagers, all these temptations and tests make a young mind who is desperate to grow but fearful gradually lose its original rationality. Xiao Lizi's mature acting skills beyond his age at the time, surprisingly, he interprets a dark youth that does not belong to everyone but deserves everyone's awareness. It can be said that this film is simply a tailor-made model for Leo's acting skills. A young and frivolous with the face of an angel, bright and immature, but falling into the world in the most embarrassing way, until the gate of hell is opened, the young and mature Xiao Li Zi tells a piece of ignorance in an emotional and accurate way of interpretation. The most painful "where to go" behind the spirit of youth and rebellion. 【Score: 8 points/10 points】
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