What did your adolescence look like?
Thinking about going out to play all day, but being forced by your parents to go to various cram schools?
You have a crush on a classmate in your class, but you are embarrassed by accidentally telling a friend and leaking the news?
Would rather indulge in the online world than take the time to communicate with the people around you?
The same world, the same adolescence.
Maybe everyone will have some small troubles more or less during adolescence.
Sometimes I really don't understand why domestic youth films are full of distorted and cruel scenes such as fights, truancy, love triangles, and even abortion .
Obviously, most people are 15 years old, and they don't dare to speak loudly in public, and they don't even dare to hold the hand of the opposite sex!
Therefore, it makes sense that most domestic youth films are advertised as "bad films".
Because it's so unreal!
A movie produced by the American A24 company ( independent production company, Hollywood upstart ) this year captured the most authentic appearance of youth.
As soon as the film came out, it immediately aroused widespread attention of the public.
Some people expressed their deep sympathy ;
Some people say that this is the truest portrayal of youth ;
Some people even joked generously, this is obviously their own personal biopic ...
The film "Eighth Grade" was unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival, and the foreign media's reputation also exploded, with a freshness rating of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and an Imdb score of 8.1 points . Even the always harsh metacritic also gave a high score of 90 points .
The film's heroine, Keira , is a 15-year-old girl going through her last week of junior high school.
That is to say, in another week, she can bid farewell to junior high school life.
From the outside, with casually groomed hair and simple clothes, she looks like an ordinary schoolgirl.
On the whole, she is indeed a very ordinary female classmate.
Even the award presented to her at the school awards ceremony was the quietest of the year.
It is conceivable that what people usually call "the little transparency in the crowd" is her.
Her face is a little baby fat, and no amount of foundation can cover the pimples all over her face;
The body is slightly fat, and the back is stooped when walking, and the breath of unconfidence blows;
Shuttle in the corridor of the teaching building, no one said hello to her;
Even in the campus ensemble, she is a role that can be replaced at any time.
She doesn't have any close friends, and even the daily parties are invited by her classmates' parents in the face of her father.
In front of outsiders, she is a little introverted and a little withdrawn .
Maybe it has something to do with her single-parent family background.
Kayla's state is very similar to the symptoms that many modern people have: social phobia , also called social anxiety disorder .
Such symptoms are concentrated in the fear of being scrutinized in a small group. Once you find that others are paying attention to you, it is unnatural . You do n’t dare to look up or look at others. You even feel ashamed . Wait up front.
But just like.
Because in another world, she doesn't seem to be introverted at all.
Instead , he's lively , empathetic , and sensible .
The world is the network .
She will upload some cute and funny photos of herself on the Internet;
Will also be crazy active in social platforms;
There will also be some short videos uploaded to YouTube, the main content is generally:
Encourage peers to be brave, be confident, and be yourself.
If such Keira is placed in real life, it must be the focus of the crowd.
But it didn't actually happen.
Therefore, Kayla has no nostalgia for her junior high school life.
Especially when she got a chance to get in touch with Olivia, a big sister in high school, she is more eager to get rid of the messy junior high school and yearn for high school life even more.
In Keira's eyes, as long as she is with Olivia, even if she just sits silently and doesn't speak, she is happy.
Because Olivia will show that she likes talking to her, appreciates her strengths, and praises her character.
Before, she had never received affirmation from other people.
But now, Olivia brought her a lot of affirmation.
She felt extremely comfortable and extremely satisfied.
She was so comfortable that she even thought that she could make up for the regret of not being favored by the boys she liked in junior high school.
But reality hit her hard.
But when she thought she could take the first step to get to know each other with the boy, her actions made her realize that the boy actually wanted to jump to the last step...
Such a blow made her cry happily while hiding in the bed.
It turned out that the beauty in the imagination is nothing but a phantom.
Escaping reality will only make you more cowardly.
Therefore, when she opened her heart again to her father who had not communicated normally for a long time, she realized that her father had always given her the affirmation she thought she had never received;
When she plucked up the courage to express her attitude to those who didn't like her, she felt an unprecedented ease;
When she was talking and laughing face to face with a boy who had a good conversation, she realized that her best friend was by her side, and the person who admired you the most was opposite.
So what is youth?
Youth is hesitant , irritable , and incomprehensible .
Everyone has these troubles.
But don't forget, youth is also a vast sky , full of vigor and hope .
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