Everyone says that adolescence is a period full of hope and sunshine. However, when the teenager is deep in the gutter full of mud, how should he face the sky and the unknown adulthood?
Every school violence in the film will make the audience worry about it. This is because those childhood pains may not be worth mentioning in the eyes of others, but they are still fresh in our memory when we grow up. Perhaps because of his youth, his cry for help was too low, so it was not easy to be discovered and easily ignored. At that time, the injury can be healed, and the bruise can also disappear, but the pain has really existed.
"We live in the gutter, but still look up at the stars"
When Chen Nian encountered bullying on campus, her initial choice was to endure. She believed that as long as she survived the six months of the college entrance examination, she would grow up, and would not be bullied and grievanced again, but no matter what. The past is unbearable, just like the work says, how many people have taken a class called how to grow up?
In reality, how many people are like Chen Nian, who endured bullying and pain for the college entrance examination and the day of turning over, and how many people listen to their parents' words, "You just need to study, and you don't need to worry about the rest." However, what is learning? What's the use? In what should be the purest and cleanest place, there have been many vicious incidents. If the problem of campus violence is not solved, even if you endure entering the university and enter the society, you will still live in the shadow of the previous campus bullying, you will not be able to trust your friends, and you will still be haunted by nightmares.
But Chen Nian met Xiaobei at the darkest time, met the person who brought her light, and also illuminated Xiaobei's heart. Xiaobei, who pretended to be wild and flamboyant on the surface, was obviously living in the gutter, but when he was guarding Chen Nian, he was wearing starlight. Chen Nian and Xiao Bei are like two stray cats, growing wildly in the gutter, comforting and supporting each other.
In the corresponding clip of the two people in the interrogation room, the behavior of the two people is like a questioning of society, a confrontation with the rules, like anger, like a heavy punch, hitting the sleeping soul in the adult world.
At the end, the two people were in the visiting room across the glass, staring at each other silently, from laughing to crying to laughing, under the echo of overlapping light and shadow, we seem to see that they are no longer just looking up at the starry sky, they have become each other's starry sky!
From the very beginning, the film uses a large number of close-ups of the characters' faces, giving the audience a feeling of oppression and expressing a hostile emotion. Although the violence in the film is a bit blunt, it is also very real, as real as stabbing the audience with a knife, it hurts very much.
The most surprising thing about the movie is the performance of the actors, especially Zhou Dongyu. The power of the Golden Horse Movie Queen cannot be underestimated. In Zhou Dongyu's performance, tears are always expressed involuntarily, conveying full emotions. Every time she sheds tears, it condenses emotions of sadness or release. She brings out the best side of a girl's sensible forbearance, strength and bravery.
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