After watching "Maniac" by Jonah Hill and Stone Sister, who succeeded in losing weight, I learned that he has also taken his first step as a director. Immediately rush to the theater to enjoy this movie that can be included in a literary film in less than 90 minutes, which may be offline at any time. Speaking of a movie, his theme, color, picture, 4:3 ratio, and even a slightly rough grainy image quality, all seem to be on time. Ours is a home video. Like the popular home videos 20 years ago, this movie has too much personal sentiment.
Every movie fan who likes to watch Hollywood comedy, I'm afraid it's not all that "grew up" watching Jonah's movies. Even if you don't know his name, as long as you see his double chin, you will laugh insensibly. People who play harlequins seriously are first of all serious people, and secondly, their eyes tend to go far beyond being funny. This first step is steady, and the future is unpredictable.
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The first feeling the hero gave me was that he was too young! The actor himself is 13 years old, but his immature face and the height of others make me think he is less than 10 years old. This kind of film makes me wonder if it is legal, and of course it is also listed as restricted in the United States (don't ask how I knew it, I almost couldn't get in if I forgot to bring my ID). The film is full of marijuana, alcohol, sex, fighting, illegal driving, and even sex, all incompatible with the age of 13. Such a conflict makes people feel reasonable. Nothing is unreasonable in the sunset of LA and the summer evening of palm trees.
The second feeling is that the whole film basically focuses on so many boys, but lacks a male perspective. The protagonist Stevie has a mother and an older brother, but he has never seen a father. My brother has committed domestic violence for a long time. If there is no one to protect him, he can only be strong and protect himself. American children of that era probably felt that they had a sense of security only in a certain group.
Skateboarding seems to run through the movie, but I always think it is dispensable. Stevie only thought these people were cool, so he taught himself skateboarding, but we don't know if he really likes skateboarding. For the first time to break into this small group and get the nickname Sunburn, it has nothing to do with his spending money on skateboards. Being accepted by the older children is because of Stevie's blood and courage, even without skateboarding, he would do it. When a child works hard for what he wants to do, even if he has to sacrifice himself for it, he will not hesitate.
Under hormonal impulse, Stevie still chooses to say thank you and punish himself after doing something wrong (scrape his thigh with a comb and strangle himself with a rope). Education from small to large forms a kind of confrontation with the impulse inside the brain. Just like he confronted his brother and his mother.
Youth, full of hormones that are nowhere to be placed, separated from the original family, and youth seeking self-consciousness, are all in this film. Everyone's life is too different, yet very similar.
In the following, all kinds of drunkenness, gatherings, marginal sex, anger, and even car crashes, these things have become the natural direction of the current. This is not a choice Sunburn has to make, but it is destined to happen. Even if it is destined to happen, the movie has created a deliberate feeling. As if Stevie didn't go through all of this, he wasted the first skateboard he bought for the first 40 dollars from his mother and wasted his 13-year-old youth.
We have reason to believe that this kind of film must have the real experience of the director. There may be some sensitive joys and sorrows, Jonah hopes to record them in some ways and is eager to get more people's sympathy. In the United States in the mid-1990s, the economy was booming and no one would think about the upcoming financial crisis. Children still had their own unrealistic ideals. But history is like this, we will never step into that river anymore.
A generation of young people grew up in the world and began to miss their youth. History repeats itself again and again, surprisingly similar.
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