following the "youth", Richard Linklater has launched a new film - "Everybody Wants Some !!",
the Chinese translation is also called "youth have" (the idea is not wrong, old teenager twenties Refers to the current adult age). This movie is almost the continuation of "Boyhood". At the end of "Young", the male protagonist drove away from his town to go to college. In the opening scene of "Each", it was the male protagonist who drove while listening to the song. Reporting to a university in Texas makes it hard not to think that this is a deliberate arrangement by the director. It seems that Linklater is fascinated by describing and tracking a person’s growth trajectory. His encounters and encounters in a long life are only cross-sectioned stage by stage. They are dissected separately and shown to us: childhood years in "Boyhood" , The high school era in "Young and Frozen", the college days of "Everyone has their youth", the love in the "Love Is" trilogy, and the subsequent marriage to middle-aged life-at this point, it is like completing a life cycle, " Ethan Hawke in "Love Before Midnight" is also the actor who plays the role of the father in "Boyhood". The fathers are "anchored in the family" (WH Oden), falling into the mud of daily mundane affairs and stagnating. The children are worthy of embarking on their journey, opening their era of roaming and learning of Wilhelm Master.
Linklater's films continue the tradition of educational fiction, recording the process of a person becoming a person, in which, often because of an accident or a wrong path, your future will quietly change. After all, as Calvino said: "Life almost cannot be life, we almost cannot be ourselves"; and as Bob Dylan sings: "How many roads must a person walk to truly become a person" .
I think that Linklater did not worry about the audience to make youth films again and again. Another reason is also because of the nostalgia for the good old times. Those Jiguang Katayu are more precious because they are not chasing. This is in the Proust sense. The act of film writing: “committed to'recovering' the (lost) time later and later through unconscious memory actions” (Roland Bart). This is Linklater's "Tracing the Passing Time" and "Speak, Memories". In these old days, the university era became a true golden age because of its freedom, enlightenment, vitality and dreams. At the very least, this is the main reason why "Everyone has a boyhood" impressed me after two years of getting out of college: it restored the director's so beautiful and unreal college career in the 1980s to be so real and full of dreamlike carnival colors. It’s hard to not think of being able to return to the university campus. Don’t forget that the director specially arranged such a weird man in the movie. He kept changing schools in order to stay in the university, smoking marijuana, and playing baseball ( He was finally found out by the coach of the baseball team that he was 30 years old and expelled from the team.) He is simply the director’s master.
Different from the predecessor "Boyhood", such as the documentary "Seven Years of Life", which generally tracked the growth and changes of the male protagonist in 12 years, what this new film tells only happened within 3 days and 15 hours from the beginning of school. The past few days and nights have been the prologue to the brilliance, the mouth-watering tasting, and promised to the freshman rookies that the next four years of university time were truly ethical and wonderful.
The story starts with the hero Jack (with the shadow of the director himself, Linklater was also a baseball team at the university) came to his dormitory-the school arranged for the baseball team to separate two houses in the residential area off campus, and met his roommate. . This group of roommates come from different parts of the world and come from different colors. The film portrays each person’s personality vividly and clearly, so that people will not be blinded by their faces (most of them are dressed in that era, jeans, flowered shirts, and long hair. , Leave the eight-character Hu) but can’t distinguish, the competitive boss, the out-of-fits, the bullied soft-footed shrimp, the lonely local snake...and in the days of getting along, they gradually got acquainted, Breed friendship and become a tacit team. In the past few days before school starts, they sing and sing every night, constantly going in and out of various parties: disco party, cowboy party, punk party, drama department welcome party... like a never-ending carnival, singing and dancing, and dazzling.
As a teenager. Light and fine stringed song.
Journey to the west in Xianyang. Zhao Lixiang passed by.
Entertainment is not ultimate. Suddenly the day wasted.
In just a few days, Jack gained friendship and love-through sending flowers, copying Whitman's poems, and getting to know girls in the drama department-as well as ideals and passions. Every character in the film is very interesting, full of real life, and the state of sarcasm, jokes, and pranks is very realistic. It is a very interesting movie.
As one of the famous chat directors, Linklater's film also has many beautiful lines. For example, the addict who kept changing schools trying to stay on campus persuaded Jack:
We are weird, we are different. The trick is. You can't resist, you can only accept. Open your arms, embrace the little monster in your heart, and be your own freak. When you do this, you are who you are, not what they want you to be, and this, my friend, is what's interesting.
When they were walking on the streets of residential areas, their friends with poison tongue mocked the residents on the roadside like this:
We came here for a purpose, and we came to play baseball. What plans do these guys have? These people can only live in this mediocre life. Ordinary, work step by step, and live a lifetime, just like everyone else.
After the welcome party in the drama department, Jack and his new girlfriend lay on the swimming ring in the pond in the forest, chatting in the morning light:
——It’s wonderful, isn’t it?
--what?
——We are still full of passion for this world, for everything. Also, I like you.
--I like you too.
--Really?
——Yes, a little bit.
On the second day, Jack and his friends who had fun all night went to the first class. The history professor wrote on the blackboard: Frontiers are where you find them. The friend raised his feet and fell asleep on his back. Jack also lay his hands on his hands, preparing to take a nap, smiling at the corners of his mouth, The end, the ending song "Good Times Roll" sounded.
Although the wonderful college life has just begun at the end of the film, there is no permanent banquet, and when the best years will come to an end, this is the heartbreaking part of this film. There is a sentence printed on the movie poster: Here for a good time, not a long time. To a good and short time. Classmates and teenagers are not "cheap", not only they are not cheap, but precious, so, "Look at it-with all the tenderness you can summon, because you are looking at your own past. Keep your eyes open and keep your eyes open. Look at this can be said to be the best day. Because I really doubt that you will have more beautiful memories than the four years here in the future" (a graduation speech by Brodsky).
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