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In the past three days, the content with the highest appearance rate in the circle of friends is nothing more than...
——Wish , Pray, Flag
When we say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, in addition to hoping that 2019 will be better for ourselves, we also have to set a new goal of overturning sooner or later...
In the coming year, it will be beaten back to its original shape!
In this way, from anticipation to failure, and from failure to the day of anticipation...
Maybe it started long ago...
Eighth grade
Eighth Grade
Eighth-grade American chick Kayla understood this at a young age.
Obese, acne-prone, introverted...
She can't be a school celebrity, she's not a freak, and she's not a rebellious girl!
In every class, there seems to be something like Kayla:
When you mention her name, everyone may remember such a person, but no one knows who she is, what she looks like, and what she has done...
Obviously a classmate.
But it seems like a transparent person has never existed!
Transparent to Kayla, basically saying goodbye to the name...
She was silent and could only call her "the one in yellow" !
But the transparent Kayla has a heart of counterattack!
Dress up the bedroom bells and whistles, full of girlish atmosphere...
Every week, she records "Positive, positive, positive energy chicken soup videos, determined to make herself a little sunshine beauty!
But - the video click rate is 0
Compliment others by liking and commenting on your classmates on social media.
But - no one responded, reduced to licking a dog
In order to get rid of such a mundane, transparent and uninterested status quo…
She took more practical action:
After a brutal ideological struggle, pluck up the courage to participate in the classmates' pool party!
But—— She was squeezed out of the picture in her aunt's swimsuit
Then she volunteered to pick up the microphone, trying to warm up the scene...
But - everyone's indifferent face
In order to attract boys' interest, she lied that she likes to post nude photos...
Even said that his KJ technology is first-class!
But—— she threw up when she went home to take a banana to practice KJ
Faced with the exclusion of the small group of girls, she decided to start a fight with the school bitch...
But—— she stuttered nervously and had no murderous intent
All the anger broke out, but she didn't dare to look directly at the bitch she was going to tear up!
I finally got to know a few seniors and sisters, and broke into a small group...
But - boys just want to take advantage!
Kayla thinks she can turn around adversity...
The audience is also mentally prepared to meet the heroine's counterattack and tear the bitch.
But the mud can't support the wall...
Keira, who should have counterattacked at the climax, failed again and again!
The fiasco of the heroine led to the [8th grade] only getting a bad review of 6.6 points . In the face of such a down and out heroine, I definitely have to send the greetings of "screenwriter Sima"...
How can a screenwriter write such a miserable heroine?
But some viewers still found the highlight of [Eighth Grade] in the comments!
Some even say-
"This is called a youth movie"
"The little details are well done"
"The laughter is bloody, the youth film of ordinary girls is too cruel"
The low-budget film titled [Eighth Grade] is produced by A24 .
There were previously unconventional works such as [Escape from the Dead Town], [Miss Bird], and [Hereditary Doom] , which made this campus film really unique.
The heroine Keira herself is introverted and not sociable.
In the 100 minutes of the film, she seized the opportunity and tried to change, but in the end, she was beaten back to her original shape in a second...
'Too real', 'to the bone' and 'insurmountable fate'
Whenever the heroine rises against the wind, she immediately admits her failure at the next intersection!
This [eighth grade] is very -- "anti-climax"
In fact, take a closer look at Keira clearly has a good appearance, Elsie Fisher who plays her has the temperament of Lindsay Lohan ...
It is completely possible to make a comeback against the wind!
Lindsay Lohan's roles in school movies like Mean Girls tend to :
The sparrow turns into a phoenix, and the headwind makes a big comeback...
Lindsay Lohan in the movie Mean Girls
but--
The seemingly heartwarming and inspirational stories are actually all fake rainbow farts...
It's ok for children to look happy.
It would be hypocritical and absurd to show it to an older child who has gone out and mixed society!
Although the real life is not so bitter and bitter, it is definitely not like killing a god and slaughtering Buddha with a halo like a krypton gold player...
Kyra in the movie is only a week away from graduating eighth grade.
Opening the time capsule that was once saved, many years ago, she just entered school and left so many beautiful visions for herself when she graduated...
"To the coolest girl in the world"
But now she has no friends, is not very crazy, and is not dazzling at all!
While recording her positive energy video, she encouraged everyone to be brave enough to be themselves, get out of their comfort zone, try to change, and set a Flag for themselves...
On the other hand, she is still as timid as a chicken in life!
The death of the world is Kayla...
Both the audience and Kayla clearly realized that a counterattack is impossible!
But do you have to turn against the wind to live well?
There is also a school drama that has been hotly discussed this year - [Never Satisfied]
A fat girl who has been excluded and bullied tries to lose weight, and after becoming a hot girl, she starts to take revenge on the people who bullied her.
Of course, I also slept a lot of boys who used to be unable to sleep...
Isn't this a counter-attack movie?
But it was this "cool" that sparked the audience's resistance to [Never Satisfied]...
Why boycott?
The plot pits the encounter of the fat girl against revenge.
And the "so-called counterattack" in the middle is accomplished through external means such as "weight loss, beauty, plastic surgery", and the heroine has also become a villain...
Is being fat a sin?
Is it possible to do whatever you want when you are beautiful?
The irony and humor are not painful, but the three perspectives of the story are staggering.
Of course, the counterattack of life is gratifying!
But YY's stories always describe the "counterattack" as a few cruel words, a few hasty scheming, and a gorgeous turn can win the world...
Back to Kayla for her final week of [eighth grade] campus life.
Everyone is bored waiting for graduation:
Sniffing the smell of marker pens, buttoning the residue between teeth, stacking Arhats with paintbrushes, squeezing pig heads with mud, and people jerking off in physiology class...
Growing up is a little stupid, no one is more special!
Keira's confusion, embarrassment, loneliness, and hilarity also have the shadow of everyone:
She comes with a "slow motion + BGM" fan filter to sneak a glimpse of the boy who is excited...
She'll open her closet to go out and play and get dressed up...
She also locks her phone alone before going to bed...
The day before entering high school, she made another time capsule.
Inevitably, I recorded a video for the future:
Congratulations to your future high school graduates and hope to get into a good university.
It would be cool if you changed yourself at 18, but it's okay if you stay the same, it's OK to have a boyfriend or not
The cover of the last time capsule still reads:
"To the coolest girl in the world"
Compared with the previous box, there is no fancy decoration, and there is only a marker pen on the box to write down wishes for the future self.
She's changed a bit, but not at all!
Whether it's making a wish, praying for blessings, or slapping the face to flag...
They are all giving comfort to the self who is moving forward. Success is regarded as a surprise, and failure is regarded as self-deprecating...
After all, the most important thing in life is to learn to accept yourself
After all, who didn't have a big dream in childhood?
And after growing up, those unrealized dreams are just secretly hidden under the pillow...
Achieving the dream is of course successful!
But who's to say that keeping your dreams by your side isn't happiness?
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