After the trilogy of "Love in" which spanned 18 years and the "Boyhood" which spanned 12 years, the director Richard Richard. Link Reiter ( Richard Linklater ) said that this is a very short time span of the story, "our frivolous years" (Everybody wants some !!) occurred in Texas in 1980, the end of August, from freshman Jack moved into baseball From the team dormitory to the first class of school, a short story of three days. Within three days, many things happened, one after another, one after another, new friends, one marijuana, but in terms of the plot, it seemed that nothing happened. Jack and the baseball team’s roommates had nothing to do all day. Revel everywhere, and then college life will come.
The original title Everybody wants some!! comes from the 80s rock band Van Halen (Van Halen), this is not only a retro nostalgia for the 80s, but also a kind of explicit hint: everyone has their own needs , Consciously or unconsciously, expect something in college life. "Some" refers to ambiguous, some people want to be professional pitchers; some people know that they can only be successful in the college team; some people think about alcohol and sex all day long; some people don't hesitate to lie in college even if they deceive. Yes, do not hesitate to deceive. Willoughby, the hippie senior in the movie, always speaks profound but perhaps just nonsense words in noisy occasions. He runs a hookah party in the dormitory, making everyone look psychedelic and like Intoxicated. But at the end of the movie, he was found by the school that he was in his 30s and was suspected of forging data. This is no longer a shame in the systems of double majors, postgraduates, graduate schools, etc., but this is the desperate "I just won't leave." What does he want in the endless college life, or what can the endless college life give him?
The narrative style of "Every Youth" is relaxed and freehand, but it may be too freehand. It seems that there is no need to set the time within three days. The overall structure is also somewhat loose, and there is almost no connection between events and events. In the character group scene, the entire baseball team will be shaped at once, which will inevitably make some characters flat, but in fact, the characters in the film are somewhat flat. Except for Willoughby, the secretly revealed, other male characters They are all just like high school students who have lived two more months. It seems that there is only the male hormone side, and there is no more complicated description. The emotional development between Jack and the heroine Beverly, even like the romance in the YA film for talk, lack of preparation, and almost get together in a hurry. Back to the meaning of college life to Willoughby, are these things that make him feel nostalgic?
From "Dazed and Confussed", "The School of Rock" to "Boyhood", Richard. Linklet is so obsessed with the growth theme of adolescents, and like Willoughby, has repeatedly returned to the university scene with a ghostly identity, and even admitted that the plot of the movie is based on personal experience. Based on such enthusiasm, I guess that the meaning of college life to him should not be so superficial. The reason why "Our Era of Frosty" is not at its previous level may be because it is too personal in nature: "I want to relax completely, follow the music and follow the memories, just like directly putting the photography rack in 1980, watching What were we doing back then.” The simple presentation is a sincere expression of the director, but it is also easy to fall into the trap of self-esteem, and it becomes very popular with the audience. When the life pattern lacks resonance, the plot does not dig new ideas. When, to put it bluntly, it is really insensible.
Like all kinds of nonsense YA movies, after the madness, "Each has its own childhood", there is also a warm moment of heart-to-heart talk between the hero and the heroine. On the lake in the early morning, Jack and Beverly talk to each other about their yearning for university, Jack said When I first applied for college, I used the myth of Chessfors pushing the rock up the mountain to connect my love for baseball. Although it is a curse, "the point is that this allows you to focus on things." Beverly replied: "It's so wonderful that we can have hope like this." For me, this passage has become the closest state of youth in the whole film: youth may of course be pleasure, alcohol, marijuana, hormones , But what really makes people feel the beauty of youth is actually that morning hope, even if blind, innocent and stupid, it makes people convinced that they have the whole future in their youth with nothing.
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