It's another movie where you can find your own shadow. There are not many houses, even if there are Emma Roberts and Freddie Haimer. Freddie Highmore: "In Search of Neverland" plays the child Peter who inspired Depp's Peter Pan prototype. The little Charlie in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" can't be forgotten. There are also "Arthur and His Mini Kingdom", "Fantasy Elf Incident Book", these are enough to make you remember him, the British fan boy, and we are our children in 1992. We were just lonely kids.
I watched such a movie very seriously, and even when I write this film review now, I still plan to revisit the subtle lines while writing.
The opening is a very accustomed American-style monologue of a person: starting from the record of human history, there are about 110 billion people born in this world. This number is impossible to complete with a single individual. There are 6.8 billion people living on this planet, and about 60 million people die every year, so it can be concluded that 160,000 people die every day. I once read the sentence "We live alone, and will die alone. Life is nothing but nothing." If we can't sleep in the middle of the night, we will all die alone, so why do we have to work day and night, hard work, and struggle, In the end it was nothingness. No matter how much money, no matter how much glory, no matter how high, no matter how powerful, we cannot avoid our fate of dying alone. Our lives should do more meaningful things. Just like the picture above: we live alone and die alone. Life is nothing but nothingness. And it was this sentence that became the reason for George not to do his homework. After reading his dialogue with the trigonometric function teacher, I already like this role. I am sure he has read Schopenhauer or Nietzsche and emphasized the meaning of everything. But as we know, meaning is nothingness, and all its components are based solely on your opinions, your feelings, and your comprehension.
Coming out of the principal’s office, G went to the top floor of the school, only to find that heartthrob S was smoking there. A teacher happened to come to inspect, so he took the reprimand for S. The subsequent encounters and dialogues are very natural, why do you help me, because I feel that you are very different, you do not have to be punished and I am used to doing this often. She took him to her house to let him understand her life and past. What G saw was a real S. I think at this time he has fallen in love with this girl, not only because of her beauty.
In the literary seminar of "The Mayor of Casterbridge", I Googled this novel. It was Hardy's work. G's understanding and answers about this book surprised me. Yes, he has read a lot of books and has quick thinking. He can easily grasp the focus of everything. His literature teacher also admires him very much. I think this is also an important reason why this teacher is so tolerant of him, and has even tried to persuade him not to drop out. She has seen that he is a person with thoughtfulness, delicate feelings, and extremely talented person. He doesn't like to do homework, he just finds it boring, but he has his own spiritual world, he maintains a strong interest in books, and he has his own opinions. Philosophy, literature or popular books, there is a scene where the little book he was reading in the cafeteria was photographed, Alice in Wonderland. I figured it out myself, but the director just wanted to tell us that G's world is as rich as Alice's Wonderland.
G and S skip class, not doing some sad things like bad kids. Absence of class is fun, but in order to maintain a sense of freshness, it is necessary to refrain from absenteeism. I agree. I remembered that I was absent from school just to experience this feeling of absenteeism. In the third grade of junior high school, pretending to be sick, he skipped class to buy aspirin, and looked at the bright classrooms and the room full of classmates, but the feeling of being out of the way was amazing. In high school, self-study and art classes. Because the teacher was very relaxed, he ran to the toilet to talk or went to the remote stairs of the teaching building to see the scenery of the campus, and even went to the medical room. Let’s talk a few words about it. I've never been a bad boy. I don't make troubles, fights, smoke, or call parents. The reason for skipping classes is the same as G. I feel that class is meaningless to me, or I simply feel uncomfortable in the class and I need to escape. When I saw this, I already felt that this movie was clearly narrating my life. I also don't like to write homework or study textbooks. A large part of my high school time is spent on reading books and I haven't left much for learning. What I think in my head all day are things that others find incredible, and I don't care. They went to Chinatown, ate noodles, followed G's stepfather, and finally returned to school. It was the principal who was waiting for him. The principal told him that he had to be a liaison for alumni, otherwise he would be very close to the school. I forgot to mention that another talent of G is drawing, but he never thinks his works are excellent. He just does boring graffiti, painting in get out of class, painting after class, and the time he does homework is also used by him in that small school. Draw something that looks inexplicable on the notebook.
Dustin, who was hosted by G, is a very unique painter. It seemed that he had a good art exhibition a year ago, so he was invited back to his alma mater to give a speech. Their conversations in the park were very speculative. I imagined that D would become G’s spiritual support, but then I discovered that G has a great brain to support his spiritual independence and is very powerful.
G admired D a little, so he took S to D's studio in Brooklyn. I found it easy to find that D likes this beautiful and charming little beauty, but he told G that he would not touch her little girlfriend. At first, I thought he would keep his promise.
In the next few tens of minutes, the whole movie fell into the common fragments of American campus movies I watched before. G and S go to the party together, go to the Pub together, get drunk together, and then start dating. It’s just that S mentioned Sex. It’s just a friend and a casual attitude that makes G breathless. So, G has to go. He is not sure if he wants to stay with this girl. He likes her or loves her. Fuck her, but her attitude seems to say that we are just friends. He doesn't know whether the girl in front of him likes him or not. He began to refuse S's call, and started looking at the ceiling insomnia.
During the day, G's mother Vivian opened the door of his room and asked him why he was not at school. His painful expression and meaningful language became the guarantee that he could stay in bed in a daze. "Of course I am not at school anymore at home. I don't understand such simple logic. Let me stay for a while." "I am a free thinking individual now. If you don't participate in your topic, please leave."
After that, even if he goes to school , The same S is still acting as a stranger. At the same time, S started to find D and wanted to talk about G with him, but involuntarily ran into D's arms. G did not write his graduation thesis. The principal and all his teachers asked him to make a decision in the office, or fill up all the homework for this semester in a little more than three weeks to get his graduation certificate, of course Continue to go to class to continue the final exam, or be expelled without a diploma. G chose the second one arbitrarily, but the principal said, come and give me an answer next Monday.
When I got home, V and stepfather were already waiting for him. V was full of guilt and disappointment. She said: Don’t you have another choice? You have to do it. You should sit down and finish it. I don’t care, I Your lie has been acquired. I suddenly discovered that this was the line my family had said to me. The difference is that they have lost trust in me, and they can only tell me: I really don't know what you can do. Vivian still firmly believes that G can finish what assignments to graduate successfully. yes, I'm a loser, but how can I do it!
G said that his stepfather could not even be unemployed and injured his stepfather. His mother decided to divorce his stepfather. Vivian could no longer bear the pressure of the mortgage and decided to sell the house. G went to find S and kissed her, but found that S and D were together. NS. I think he should have realized that even if he can't find the meaning of doing homework, he still has to live. They have no house and can't live with nothing more miserable than they are now.
On Monday, G said firmly to the principal that I want to fill in all the homework for this year, and I want to graduate. The art teacher said, I only need a meaningful painting that allows you to examine and listen to your heart, and to talk to your true self. Out of school, he said to S, I wish you and D happiness together. Carrying a large stack of exercises, he returned home with the determination to complete. After that in the whole movie, he started to open his black APPLE MAC and did his homework very seriously. The thickness of the homework on the left side of the table is decreasing day by day, his painting of finding himself is finished, and V's house is finally bought.
Before the graduation ceremony, S asked him to meet again and told him that his mother had remarried again and had moved to Texas, and that he was going to go backpacking to Europe and would not attend the graduation ceremony. Finally, G bravely said what he wanted, S's answer was You know we're gonna be together one day. We have to sort through our messed-up issues... It's a long life. At the graduation ceremony, G finally got it At the end of the course, V cried excitedly.
In the school studio, the painting that allowed G to find himself was slowly uncovered. He also admired the person in the painting.
Some people say that this ending is too perfect, it is better to leave some regrets. But there is nothing wrong with having a good life. This is the director’s first work, a niche movie. The beginning and the second half are literary and artistic. I think this is enough.
I looked at G as if I saw myself, I want to get the same ending as him. He really forced himself to do what he didn't like but had to do. Although he still didn't find the meaning of doing that, he was forced by reality and became motivated. I was beaten by his fighting spirit to finish my homework, and I wanted to try hard to do what I should do. I really hate myself for being so stingy to work hard, and for being so cowardly afraid of failure.
People who are afraid of death are normal, and those who are not afraid of death but are afraid of living are not great. I am afraid of living, and the real source of fear is the fear of losing myself and not finding the life I want. G is afraid of living because he will do too many things that he can't find meaning.
In fact, I can tell everyone that I have a plan for my future, but in fact I am still very confused. I have not forced myself to take the present seriously, and I have not overcome the inertia of inaction and the inertia of escaping from reality.
My self is deep into my bones and I have always insisted on being vulnerable to mavericks, and I am always obsessed with the small world I made and supported by the principle of ignorance.
Miss Child, the word "being a human" itself contains infinite meaning, and the visionary will always only think in pain. I hope this film can continue to flog myself hard.
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