"Wolf Boy" combines all the current popular tear-jerking elements: transcending time, eternal love, single-mindedness, the promise of never betrayal, tame and tame loyalty.
The beginning of the first half of this first half, where a wild werewolf boy meets an ordinary girl unintentionally, will be half the plot of "Twilight": the love of a werewolf and a human. Next, the girl uses the hound book to tame the wolf boy, teaching him to be civilized, to eat, to speak and to read, and to teach him to wait. This part makes people read a touch of the warmth of pet movies.
In the second half of the movie, some special effects were used to render the transformation and escape of the werewolf. The story became full of fantasy, and it became a fairy tale because of its warmth. Like the ending of Edward Scissorhands, the hero and heroine are in Parting on a snowy night, and meeting again on a snowy night 47 years later, the story of this section has no logic at all, revealing a sense of fairy tale that can only be understood.
Commitment, time, youth, and waiting - these universal sensational elements are laid out in a gentle hybrid film, "Wolf Boy" is a skillful and girly film, which is simply a qualified sensational model.
In terms of literary youth, it takes an old soul and a young girl's heart to like this movie. The audience does not need to spend any effort to understand the plot, nor does it need to delineate the scope of the genre film, only need to submit A variety of personal experiences, whether it is youth, love or pets, can be exchanged for a hybrid collective emotion from "Wolf Boy".
It has romantic, almost artificial details: the girl's hand in the soft light strokes the wolf boy again and again, and plays the guitar for him in the sun. He had a funny coincidence: the heroine painted herself strange makeup, and the wolf boy wore a lady's kimono. When the family came home, she stood awkwardly and looked embarrassed and cute. It also has a thrilling and quirky flavor using special effects: the horror transformation of werewolf, leaping in the air, and the invulnerable bite of the villain. It also has a shocking and sensational climax: the werewolf and the girl cried and parted in the dark night of the snow, and the feeling of no way out was publicized to the extreme, to the point of almost shameful sensationalism.
But in the end, it actually looks like a youth dying. After the excitement is everywhere, the old heroine in her 60s returns to the memory of 47 years. In the abandoned old house, she meets the wolf boy again. This part is very dreamy. , such as the dark and then blank space of youth, a kind of reverberation of returning to youth and going wild again.
At the end of the film, the old heroine left her hometown again. The wolf boy watched her in the snow without changing her face. She built a snowman on the snow and waited for the boy wholeheartedly for the sentence "I'll be back soon". An idealized innuendo: about eternal youth, unrecoverable innocence, and unchanging single-mindedness. He also completes the completion of the symbolic ideal character here.
"Wolf Boy" is a traditional and non-traditional work. In the past, Korean films always gave people a unique misunderstanding: the heroine must have no parents and be slapped in the face; the man must be arrogant, cool and handsome, and the most What a rich dad. When they met for a while, they slapped each other again, then love illuminated their lives like torches, and finally terminal illness and car accident took everything away.
After the Korean drama model has become an inherent narrative routine, it has been imitated, resisted and satirized. Since 2011, Korean movies have carried out a self-revival, and have made anti-routine efforts in various types of narratives, as well as absorbing Hollywood, Hong Kong and other places. The genre film elements of the film, but it is so fierce that it is hybridized to "Family Boys", but it is also very rare: it is like the Korean version of "Twilight", it is also like the Korean version of "Edward Scissorhands", and it also reveals a bit of the Korean version of "Loyalty". The meaning of "Inu Hachiko", it has a strong hybridity and purpose: to move you, touch you, and even tame you.
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