He played truant from school, smoked, fights, and stole things, and finally got admitted to college and saved his mother?

Delmer 2021-12-21 08:01:37

If you are under (just) adult,

When your parents have a strong desire to control you, or slap and scold you, how do you get rid of them and gain freedom?

When your life has been sinking but you don't want to be willing to fall, what is the opportunity for you to move up?

The college entrance examination is undoubtedly the most suitable opportunity for young adults to change the status quo.

Whether you hate it or appreciate it, you have to admit that the college entrance examination is an important turning point in your life.

Many people can get rid of the bleak status quo through the college entrance examination, go to the dream city, and start all over again.

"Boy's Life" is such a story of "the college entrance examination changes destiny", but it doesn't stop there.

It’s different from the inspirational chicken soup in "The Bottom Hot Girl", which tells the story of Kudo Meizhi’s counterattack from a scumbag to a student who is admitted to college.

"Boy's Life" focuses on the painful and perplexed youthful past of bad boys.

The 17-year-old Xiao Li also carries a baby fat. Toby , played by him, prefers to be called Jack by others .

He played truant, smoked, fights, and talked swear words with his friends,

As a result, my mother not only has to be called to talk by the teacher from time to time, but occasionally she has to pick him up at the police station.

Mother Caroline is a single mother, which seems to give Jack, who lacks his father’s love, an excuse to "degenerate".

Caroline was brave and decisive, and found her boyfriend was following her, and immediately packed her things and took her son to change cities; when she was beaten by her boyfriend, she immediately took her son to change cities... This is the benefit of renting a house.

She and her son are more like friends. They sing together and make fun together. She doesn't bother her son laughs at her boyfriend.

Although she is immature and can't look at others well, the relationship between her and her son is very enviable.

Jack learned from her the courage to leave and the self-confidence and dreams he will always cherish, so that he will not fall to the end.

Caroline, who "courage is greater than common sense", was not able to find many jobs in 1957, and her life was difficult to maintain, so she had to agree to Dwight's proposal.

Dwight not only has a weird sexual addiction-he doesn't like to look at each other's face during sex, and the posture of not looking at the face makes the man very violent and the woman very humiliating.

He is also the implementer of tyrant education, facing Jack that is not bad in nature but does not learn well, he will fight or scold. Enroll Jack for the Boy Scouts and ask Jack to deliver the paper, but the money for the paper has to be handed over to him.

When he learned that Jack was humiliated by other boys, he used words and fists to humiliate Jack to make Jack fight back and teach Jack to solve problems with his fists.

While he used his fist to make Jack learn well, he suppressed Jack upward. The violent, incompetent and jealous Dwight makes people hateful.

In the face of such a stepfather, Jack seems to be slowly becoming a person he hates.

When will a life of despair and pain come to an end?

The protagonists in many movies have fought with the dragon for too long, and become the dragon themselves, using violence to control violence to end their suffering.

The ending of "Boy's Life" is a rare fairy tale in reality, but it does exist.

The film is adapted from real people and real events. In reality, Toby was expelled from his university and participated in the Vietnam War. Later he became a writer and served as a professor of literature at a well-known university in New York.

Many plots of the movie are empathetic and arouse many people's memories of their youth and family.

No one has ever experienced the decadent and confused youth, and the unwillingness to be reconciled to degenerate and to be upward has made many people feel the same.

Also worth mentioning in the movie are Leonardo and De Niro, who plays the stepfather.

De Niro's acting skills are undoubtedly. He is used to comedy. He makes a violent, jealous, and powerful stepfather plump and three-dimensional, and can't wait to beat this stepfather to death with a stick.

De Niro was so handsome when he was young

Although the 17-year-old Leonardo's acting skills are a little immature, he hasn't been dragged down in the scene with De Niro. The performances of the young and old are full of tension and hit people's hearts.

No wonder 19-year-old Leonardo was nominated for Best Actor Oscar for his superb acting skills in "Different Sky".

Two years later, the little plum has completely lost baby fat

The acting skills in "Different Sky" simply surpassed the male protagonist Depp

Later, Leonardo and De Niro were in the same frame again, and they had to feel that time was a slaughter knife, and one slaughter was a cut.

At the end of the movie, Jack asked his mother if he wanted to leave together now, reminding his uncle that his mother had taken him decisively out of the quagmire several times at the beginning of the movie.

This pair of mothers and sons who walk away and stop losses in time are free and easy and courageous.

It is this attitude to life that makes this movie still shining with the glory of freedom more than two decades later.

In "The Shawshank's Redemption", there is a line saying:

Some birds are destined not to be kept in cages, and every feather of them shines with the light of freedom.

It's not an exaggeration to put this line on "Boy's Life".

It seems that the college entrance examination has changed Jack's destiny, but his desire for freedom and the courage to change the status quo have changed his destiny.

This article is the original movie paradise, movie paradise public number: dianyingnews

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This Boy's Life quotes

  • Caroline Wolff Hansen: What did he do?

    Principal Shippy: He violated school property and he flouted the law.

    Caroline Wolff Hansen: Can you say that in English, please?

    Principal Shippy: He wrote obscene words on the wall.

    Caroline Wolff Hansen: Did you do it?

    Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: [shakes his head]

    Caroline Wolff Hansen: He didn't do it.

    Principal Shippy: He wrote obscene words on the wall.

    Caroline Wolff Hansen: What obscene words?

    Principal Shippy: "Fuck You."

    Caroline Wolff Hansen: That's one obscene word.

  • Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: I'm not going!

    Dwight Hansen: The hell you say.