After a busy time, the long-lost weekend finally arrived. I watched three movies a day, and the first documentary was the last movie review. Then I went to the cinema to watch Ant-Man 2 (not worth writing about), and then watched such a "semi-documentary". It may be that I haven't sat down to watch a movie for a long time, and I'm suffocated.
Without doing my homework in advance, I found such a movie with a somewhat unique name and opened it, thinking it was a documentary about animals.
The movie was special from the beginning. Just like a regular documentary, it started with an interview, and didn't say what it was about, only that the children did something wrong, and the adults were very sad. It wasn't until the young actor Barry came on stage that I realized that this was no ordinary documentary, and it had nothing to do with animals.
But the way the flashbacks make me have to keep watching...
The film is narrated by real people of the event, but the situation at that time is recreated in a cinematic way, so I call it a "semi-documentary". It tells the story of four college students who went to the library and tried to steal a priceless book (it doesn't seem to matter if the drama is not spoiled, you know the result anyway).
The male protagonist, Spencer, has just entered the art academy and is about to become a painter but is dissatisfied with his life. In his impression, every famous great painter, his life is full of tragic complex. So he felt that a successful artist must have some special experience in life, even a disaster, in order to create special art. So when Warren, his rebellious friend, suggested stealing the book, he longed for such an adventure.
Warren is a sports student who is recommended by a scholarship, a typical rebellious teenager with developed limbs and a relatively simple mind, and is also the main promoter of the story. Eric is the best student among the four. He can answer the teacher's questions correctly even if he doesn't listen to the class. CHAS is a rich second-generation, inherited the business acumen of his father, and started his own business to make money when he was in middle school. He has always been the clearest among the four. (I have to say that the combination of these four people is like a movie, quite typical)
The specific details are left for you to enjoy in the film. In general, these four teenagers are all living the life of ordinary college students, and they seem to be plain and have no worries. It is this worry that makes this seemingly easy adventure so appealing to them. The priceless books are kept in a room in the library, guarded only by an old lady. They find a buyer, plan, get ready, all set, ready to go into the library to steal books.
So far, everything has been movie-like, cool, and smooth, and such a simple action doesn't seem like there should be any challenges, not to mention that they plan everything and even dress up as a bunch of old men. However, when the day really came, when the book was to be stolen in broad daylight, suddenly everything changed.
It was no accident that the plan went awry, not twice. On the one hand, of course, they are not fully prepared because they are inexperienced; but more importantly, they are just teenagers who are hot-headed and eager for adventure, not ruthless professional criminals, so they will be nervous and make mistakes. Perhaps it was at this time that they realized that reality is not a movie, and that crime is not as cool as it is in the movie, but very scary. The book is much bigger and heavier than expected, and the basement doesn't have a door leading directly to the outside. Several actors showed the characters' nervous mood vividly, and the whole process made me sweat.
(Insert a paragraph here, just after watching this movie, I watched "How to Get Away with Murder" again. I have to say that many blockbuster crime films really glorify crimes that are separated from ordinary people's lives. These children probably have seen it too After many similar movies, learn to plan an action. Not all commercial movies are bad movies, and there are many worth watching, but we have to remember that those are just exaggerated and beautified worlds, and most of them cannot be used for reference in life, because the reality Life is a lot more complicated than a movie, and you suffer the consequences.) Well back to the movie.
As you can imagine, several children lost their souls in fright.
After making a mistake step by step, the only thing left is to wait to be caught. In the next few days, they lived like walking corpses, being chased by enormous pressure, guilt, regret, fear, and constant entanglement and pursuit. Warren ran to the supermarket to blatantly provoke security with something; Spencer stumbled into a car accident without feeling it; Eric suddenly got into a fight in the bar; CHAS sleeps with a pistol in his arms.
The film's grasp of the rhythm is also very real, the excitement during preparation, the fear during action, the anxiety after the event, and the sigh of relief when finally caught. It can all be reflected in the music, the use of the camera and the performance of the actors. And it shows us the truest appearance of crime. This film can probably be used to educate children (or adults). Although things are not black and white in many cases, the truth is so terrible when it comes to crime alone. , a short-circuit of the head may be repaid with years of prison life, or even a lifetime of guilt and self-blame.
Today’s two documentaries mentioned one point at the same time. Many times, some movies are not suitable for young people who are still immature to watch, whether it is a child who jumped from a building in Superman, or a movie that thinks robbery is cool. of college students. At least it can tell us that reality is not a film, and that film, as an art form, embellishes reality. But reality is often more cruel than movies or novels. Even if they did succeed at the time, although it is unlikely, if they did sell the book and escaped legal punishment, even if they were really lucky, then this experience would be very important to them. Their inner trauma will also be very long, and they have to carry this guilt for the rest of their lives, imagining how carefree they would be today if they hadn't done so in the first place. So when the police rushed into their door, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, just like the elder brother in the original incident of "Nobody Knows" told reporters that after confessing everything, he felt that a stone that had been in his heart for many years was finally removed. .
Spencer has indeed achieved his purpose, his life is no longer so ordinary, and he even has a tragic complex that he has longed for. I think he is now hiding in his garage and obsessed with drawing birds, and he would probably rather go back to that ordinary life, minus today's sad experience, and be a less "special" person. But if he hadn't taken this wrong step in the first place, how would he have realized how the consequences of all this would affect him.
This is probably the paradox of life. The current Spencer reminds me of the poem: "Young people don't know the taste of sorrow, they fall in love with the floor. Fall in love with the floor. For the sake of writing new words, I want to talk about sorrow. Now I know the taste of sorrow, and I will stop. But it's cool and autumn."
Okay, let's talk so much, see you in the next movie.
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