This movie used to be my favorite movie during adolescence, and now I watch it again, and I have more deep thoughts.
Around the millennium, the eschatological doctrine has always been circulating in the society. Some people hyped the millennial bug and asserted that computers in the world will be collectively paralyzed on January 1st in 2000 (and some people say it is 2001), and human society will not have it. The order is chaotic. Although nothing happened with the passage of time, a trend of indulgence to death before the destruction of the earth came into being. Probably starting in 1999 and continuing until after 2001, people's hearts were at ease again. And this movie shows how young Americans did not think about school studies, wanton indulgence, drug addiction, and mental emptiness. Today, it still looks a bit shocking.
This film is an adaptation of a novel by the author of the American mentally ill. He was a smash hit in the 00s, and his novels and scripts were made into movies one after another. He seemed to have a good grasp of the living conditions of the young people at the time.
The starring in this film is especially like Faye Wong, both in looks and temperament. She is an abstinence girl, in order to preserve her virginity, she even disgusts herself by looking at STD illustrations every day! But the lover she missed is a famous lousy person. The latter part of the film uses a fast-edited montage with a Rap-like monologue to show this scumbag's depraved European study career, nothing more than drunkenness, life and death, when he comes back. The heroine has long been forgotten.
The horse face male protagonist is also a degenerate person. He usually takes drugs and sells drugs and owes a lot of money to the drug dealers. He and the hostess met by chance because they wanted to go to class for an unprecedented time, but the class was empty, only the teacher was sleeping on the podium. The two had the illusion of love under the stimulus of drugs. The male protagonist thought that the love letter he received every day was sent by the female protagonist. The female protagonist wanted to be closer but did not want to betray her boyfriend. It's a pity that both of them were wrong.
The most heart-wrenching passage in the film is the scene where Miss Wallflower commits suicide. She is a neglected girl. Those purple letterheads are stuffed into the male lead's mailbox every day, but the male lead doesn't even know her existence in the end. She was unknown, no one noticed, only the final death made others realize her despair. The pool of blood flowed in vain.
The man's number two scene is a bit funny. He is gay and has a crush on the hero, so he has to provide him with marijuana to please him. In the film he is a condiment.
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