Subject: About Lily Zhou, about the sky.
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Our ether flies in the air, we can't control it, so we watch it fly freely.
What is ether? What is Lily Zhou?
A group of ignorant children in the sky
are despised in school because of their excellent but withdrawn personal attributes. They seem to need to find their true sustenance for life, but they chose such music.
About Debussy, about the sky.
Hasumi saw Lily Zhou's poster in Hoshino's room and asked Hoshino a question about Lily. So the two teenagers started chatting about music, about growing up, about their own views on the world.
After selling the stolen CD, Hasumi paid attention to the poster at the door, because it was Lily, the sky.
Riding awkwardly on country roads with Lily's poster board on its back. Occasionally put the drawing board on the side of the road, the background is the field, quietly staring.
Debussy, Kuno, sitting in front of the piano, playing Debussy's "Ballet", can't say she loves the sky, but at least the wonderful music makes people feel that this woman is quiet and beautiful.
What are they after in the end?
Torturing himself deeply, Hasumi squatted in the wheat field sluggishly and speechless, stood in the wilderness looking at Hoshino shouting in the distance, and Kuno who was expressionless but his mood fluctuated with the music.
The teenagers seem to be trying hard to enter this world, but find themselves out of place in the middle, they will stop, and they will appear helpless.
Their firmament is a sacred place in their hearts that cannot be reached. It's amazing how many female characters appear in
adult world movies. Hasumi's pregnant mother, Hoshino's young and beautiful mother, and the simple female class teacher Koyama. There is also Tsuda Shiori, who was raped by Hoshino in the later period and became a assisted girl, and Kuno, who was tricked by Hoshino's gang to the old factory to rape and returned to school strong.
We can see many, many such female characters in the main line of the film. Conversely, we rarely see men who are decisive.
In Hoshino's garden house, there is only mother.
Because it is a rich family villa, the toiletries in the bathroom are very finely divided, but I found that Hoshino's beautiful mother only said when talking to Lotusmi: This is mine, that is my mother-in-law, which one is Hoshino's . Obviously, the role of father is often absent from Xingye's life.
His father might not be part of his life, he might have committed suicide under pressure after the factory went bankrupt, and it all feels confusing.
And what about Lianmi? In a divorced family, the mother remarried and was already pregnant. The original father would even disappear from Hasumi's life, because the stepfather even asked Hasumi to change his surname, but kept the name "Yuichi" to indicate his identity as the eldest son.
The male characters on the show are mostly disappointing.
Wretched man, what words should I use to describe him? Prostitutes?
Such a man's image seems to be deliberately rendered by the director.
In such a society, with such male characters, how can teenagers trust and approach them?
Without the presence of male characters, let's take a look at the helplessness of female characters throughout the film.
In the process of Hoshino's fall, the beautiful mother never appeared again, I don't know why.
Hasumi's mother seemed to seldom speak from the beginning to the end. Even when Hasumi was invited by the teacher to the school's discipline office for stealing, Hasumi's mother just beat Hasumi hysterically without any verbal communication.
During the whole process when Hasumi vomited in class because of auditory hallucinations, there was no sign of his mother.
The young head teacher, when faced with Lianmi's decline in grades due to lack of motivation, could only ask him if he had any concerns in a woman's unique tone of concern. And Hasumi didn't tell him, and only said palely: As a teacher, I can only encourage you to do your best.
The weakness of female characters in the process of juvenile growth, coupled with the absence or distrust of male characters.
The director seems to be explaining to us the current phenomenon of Japanese society, a worthy sight. The lack of morality in the adult world is understandable.
Kite
didn't know what the director's purpose was, but Shiori Tsuda fell in love with her groom, Hasumi, the girl who helped her in the play. And the cowardly Hasumi never dared to offend Hoshino's hegemony, or was always forced by his lewd power. He also seemed to like Tsuda, so there was a farce of arranging a date between Sasaki and Tsuda on the rooftop.
However, Tsuda already knew that she could not live and fall in love like a normal girl, and she obviously rejected Sasaki.
During the call with Hasumi, I also joked, which Sasaki? Which guest?
Saw a group of strangers flying kites in the wilderness.
At that time, we can still see her as a shy girl, approaching one of the men, asking questions about the kite and asking him to let him try to fly the kite in their hands.
Tsuda, who held the kite's guide in his hand, pulled hard and laughed.
This part is, in my opinion, the best in the whole movie. It also plays an important role in the plot.
A red kite with a blue sky, why not make people love it?
Tsuda, who was holding the kite's direction sign, found that he could still laugh happily, laughing because the kite rose in the air, and feeling sorry for the falling of the kite. She found that she was still the normal child growing up in the wilderness where the kite was flying, and she began to envy the kite in the air.
How I want to be it.
So Tsuda, who fell from the tower, eventually became its envied kite, free and free from the shackles of bad forces. Tsuda, who inadvertently found dead under a power tower, smiled.
Being free, the teenagers who are now bound by too many things seem to want this power.
Green Apple
Hoshino at the end of his life, before Lily's concert, was walking in the crowd with a green apple in Hoshino's hand.
Perhaps on that website, Hoshino not only shared music with netizens, but also found the "Lily Zhou" in his heart. So we can see that outside the court, he kept throwing the green apple in his hand, looking around, looking for the person who paid attention to the apple, that person was "obsessed".
Hoshino saw Hasumi staring at him, and his intuition was correct, but he just didn't expect that the timid little boy around him was the "obsessed" friend who entrusted his life to him.
Hoshino was used to bullying Hasumi like this, like letting him swim naked in front of everyone, or even masturbate. He was accustomed to showing a treacherous and weird smile when he saw Hasumi being humiliated.
He asked Hasumi to buy a drink for himself, and exchanged the ticket with a better position in Hasumi's hand, and finally even tore up Hasumi's ticket and discarded it. He didn't even want to share Lily with others. He knew that only obsession was what kept him in this world.
So Hoshino took the green apple from Hasumi's hand the first time he walked out of the venue, and asked if there was anyone who greeted him.
And what about the fate of the green apple?
Hasumi found that the online friendship that had been supporting his life actually made him despise, and when he didn't intend to face it, he chose to create chaos and then stab Hoshino to death.
Green apples are no longer that exotic fruit with alluring colors. It was fiercely inserted from the middle by a dagger covered with the blood of a young man, and the blood flowed out of the inserted hole. It was the blood of Hoshino, the blood of the green cat, and the blood of the green apple.
The original sustenance for life collapsed in an instant, causing the cowardly and timid Hasumi to explode, killing him, it was him.
The green apple no longer represents beauty, but the death of a teenager.
At this time, the green apple is the incarnation of Hoshino.
It came to this world with the most gorgeous colors and full of seductive gestures. It struggles to find its own kind, but it ends bleakly. The green apple stabbed by the bayonet was bleeding with the boy before being dumped on the side of the road. It just used up its most dazzling moment and then fell.
The dull sound of the apple falling on the ground is a torture to this society and the adult world.
When teenagers lose their trust in the adult world in the process of growing up, they will turn their attention to one thing and have serious dependence. This is not just an introduction to movies. The director also seems to be using this method to condemn the unscrupulousness of the society.
How can the fall of a teenager not make people feel sad, and how many people have really thought about the impact of the adult world on teenagers?
On the one hand, it is hard to discourage teenagers from loving the world and establishing a positive outlook on life. If they turn their backs, they will be black-faced, bullying and defrauding. How can they be reassured? But when criticizing the precocious young people today, they are not as simple and innocent as in the past, have those adults thought about their own behavior?
At the end of the article, let us answer the two questions at the beginning of the article.
What is ether? What is Lily Week?
Ether, the virtual real world, has become the spiritual sustenance of teenagers in the process of growing up to a certain extent.
The green apple is for Hoshino; the wheat field and the sky are for Hasumi; the kite is for Tsuda; the piano music is for Kuno.
Everyone's "Lily Week" is different, but they are all important cornerstones on their own growth path.
A movie, a few teenagers, more thinking.
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