——"All About Lily Zhou"
"I see you, you see me; you see me, I see you..." Lily Zhou's singing surrounds her ears, so intoxicating. Close your eyes, hold on to the earplugs, and make the singing clearer. Yes, this is my world, nothing else matters.
Lily Zhou is a singer, but not a person. In everyone's youth, there is a Lily Zhou, and her singing is the strongest weapon against the outside world. Remember the exhausted exercises, the annoying head teacher who can never get rid of it, and the endless chatter from your parents? Remember the more and more acne on your face, the ugly fall in gym class, and the embarrassment of being at a loss in front of the girl you like? What a messy life! Let's go back to that song, only that world is forever beautiful and always spotless.
There has never been a time when those songs were so breathtaking that you were willing to die in an instant. When you hear it again many years later, you may have tears in your eyes, but the pure feelings are no longer, just like the white shirt and white sneakers on the teenager, which is the color of youth.
Yes, Lily Zhou is not the protagonist, youth is.
Yuichi is a shy child and "a complete Lily fan" because Lily Zhou is "the personification of ether (the world of happiness)". Xiongyi is the moderator of the Lily Zhou fan forum, whose ID is "Filia". On this forum, he and "Blue Cat" met and cherished each other.
In 1999, the 13-year-old Yuichi and his friend Hoshino were admitted to the same middle school. At that time, Hoshino was mild-mannered, excellent in character and study, and spoke on behalf of all the freshmen at the opening ceremony. But because of this, he was mocked and rejected by his classmates, but Hoshino didn't care.
After a summer vacation, Hoshino's temperament changed drastically, and he severely punished Banba and replaced him. He instructed his subordinates to rape Yoko Kuno, the girl he liked, and forced Shiori Tsuda to engage in sexual services (assistance for communication). When Yuichi flinched, he was also punished by Hoshino. Yuichi told "Blue Cat" online that the rose-colored days turned gray.
Youth is not always rosy. Do you think youth is sunny? That's the memory at play, because the memory only leaves the good. When the angel falls into the earth, a tragedy is formed. Human vanity, greed and cowardice will eventually fall on these curious teenagers. On that campus that symbolizes purity and vigor, Yuichi's subservience, Hoshino's domineering, and Tsuda's indifference are incompatible with the white school uniform.
But not everyone can bear it. Tsuda crushed the "earned" money with his feet and refused Sasaki's confession. In the face of the cruel reality, she no longer believes in money and love, her "ether" does not exist in this world. "I want to fly in the sky", looking at the kite in the sky, Tsuda smiled like a child. Finally, Tsuda jumped off the tower, the phone pendant hanging from the wire and swinging with the wind. That picture was so painful that I wanted to die.
It seems that only death can stop growth. Xiong said to the "green cat" that he wanted to die in the past, but fortunately, he met the "green cat" and moved forward in the mutual comfort of the two. Is growing up really so painful? In the movie, the image of parents is blurred, they are always busy, always indifferent, and never have time to take care of their children. But even in "Guling Street Teenage Murder Incident", the parents' care did not stop the tragedy of Xiao Si, and the good boy became a murderer in an instant. Youth is destined to be lonely, and all you have is a trace of trust and resonance from your partners.
However, outside Lily Zhou's concert, when Yuichi found out that "Blue Cat" was Hoshino, his pillar instantly collapsed. The knife that stabbed Hoshino, like Japan's "Guling Street Teenage Murder Case", is so deadly and so powerless.
In Takeshi Kitano's "Bad Boy's Sky" and Yang Dechang's "Guling Street Teenage Murder Case", youth is accompanied by pain and blood. But this is the real thing, and all good things are just illusions. We miss our youth because there is something we lost there, there is the "ether" in memory; just like Yuichi and Hoshino like to listen to songs in the rice fields, because "there is only some green here". It's a pity that this is just a futile escape, and at the end of the film, Yuichi no longer logs into Lily Zhou's forum and dyes his hair yellow, which seems to mean that he accepts growth. But this kind of growth, isn't it a pain?
In fact, everyone yearns for "Ether", but just like the abuse and attacks of the two fans before the concert, the pursuit of beauty can easily lead to conflicts, which seems to be the nature of human beings that can never get rid of. The fans finally said in the message that Lily Zhou is also a living person, and her records need to be sold to make a living, otherwise she will be unsustainable. In the face of reality, "ether" is always an illusion.
Unfortunately, we must grow up until we find that Lily Zhou is a person rather than a god; until we can no longer feel the color of "ether" in her singing; until we are integrated into the expressionless crowd, we can't turn back... ...
our youth, so tarnished.
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