The first scene of "The Runaways" is the menstrual blood falling to the ground, and the female director's female perspective is immediately revealed. The film did not give the two protagonists Cherie and Joan Jett too much deep value, but stayed more on their puberty vain anger and lightness of life: Cherie slowly turned from a good girl to yelling "I'm your ch ch ch ch ch cherry bomb", showing off your underage body in an amorous manner; Joan Jett is a typical rock young man who only knows to smash with guitar and vent his anger from nowhere. With the journey of the escape band, the two quickly became famous and conflicted, and finally Cherie left the team and returned to ordinary lives.
The first half of the whole film is basically the route of a youth film, and the second half quickly unfolds contradictions and then hurriedly ended-perhaps because of the biography of the prototype character Cherie, and Joan Jett himself as the producer, the mood of the film Plump, it feels real, but the overall look is pale and superficial. Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart have dedicated their most mature performances. Although Stewart still has not gotten rid of the problem of coldness and monotony of performances-it is a pity that the film lacks really sharp and heavy things, credible performances and Photography with dim, slightly out-of-focus and nostalgic grains does not improve the quality of the film: rock music films need to have a certain "moment", or borrow a word from the music, called an irresistible "hook." To shake the audience. For example, in "Almost Fame", everyone sang Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" on the bus; for example, in "The Lost Wall", middle school students wearing masks line up to enter the meat grinder while singing "You It’s just another brick on the wall"; for example, in "Rock Star", Mark Wahlberg walked across the stage and watched a long-haired youth who was almost the same as himself before singing wildly on stage with dreams and desires... "Escape" "Band" does not have such a moment. We only see girls angry, fleeing, singing, and breaking down. All their voices float on the surface like lies. They are a reprint of the old era, not the original song.
I still like this film a bit. The rock girls of that era were sloppy and determined from the inside out. Nowadays, adolescent girls are listening to Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus. They will no longer scream and sing "I love rock music, put a coin into the jukebox; I love rock music, and slowly share with me Dance..." Sex is no longer a weapon of resistance, lies are no longer a cover for despair, and electric guitars are no longer excited and noisy.
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