I really liked the part where Connor chatted up with the heroine for the first time despite the dark circles under his eyes that he just got hit.
[—Do you want fire?
- No, I'm about to quit it
- I have no fire either]
Connor says in the film, "I'm a futurist". Don't look back, just move forward.
I want to hook up with a girl, but she looks so cold, it doesn't matter, I just walked over and said what I thought; I want to form a band, but I don't know anyone when I first came to school, it doesn't matter, start with the people around me; I want to make a video for a new song , no experience, no photographer and makeup artist, it doesn't matter, I still shoot and take inspirations; I want to develop further with the girl, but the girl already has a mature man driving a car as a boyfriend, and Connor is a riding It's alright, bike boy, Connor proudly told him that I'm a "futurist". In Northern Ireland in the 1980s, the economy was depressed, and people's lives were numb and uninteresting. Connor's band is like a flame in the bleak winter. They don't care about external troubles. When they are uncomfortable, they write songs. No worries, don't look back, just move forward. The glasses guy in the band complained to Connor "I don't know who I am, anything is fine to me, I just want to make music", Connay replied "I'm stuck in this stupid and violent but that's life, and I'm going to try to take it, deal with it, and make some art."
In addition to the male and female protagonists, other characters in the film are also very three-dimensional. Connor's scumbag brother, Brenda, is a beacon. When Connor first formed the band, he told Connor that your band is not a cover band, you have to have your own style. "Rock and roll is a risk, you risk being ridiculed." He smiled and listened to Connor's flirting progress, and guided Connor's music creation step by step. Eamon, the band’s keyboard player with glasses, likes to raise rabbits. When he is not holding his musical instrument, he is playing with rabbits. He always helped Connor turn inspiration into melody, and whenever Connor got frustrated, Connor knocked on his door and asked, "Do you want to write a new song?"
The delinquent boy who always bullied Connor at the beginning was a "stealer" at school, and at home he became a "useless thing" ordered by adults to buy alcohol. But he was strong and good at fighting, and eventually he became the "manager" of the band at Connor's invitation, helping the band deal with those who came on stage while playing.
Watching this movie on a weekend afternoon, the movie ended, my blood seemed to boil with the rhythm of the movie, and the episodes from the movie echoed in my head, I stood up from the chair, picked up the guitar, Randomly plucking the strings, imagining that you are Connor, fiddling with a group of buddies, and feeling the wonderful melody of different instruments. Like every song in the movie, with youthful enthusiasm and brave and dreamy melody. The lyrics are beautiful too (with a few lines from a favorite movie episode "Up") It's two o'clock on the edge of the morning She's running magical circles around my head I head to ride on a dream she's driving She turns to kiss me, I crash back into bed.
Do you want to write a new song?
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