The first time I saw Yi Yang Qianxi acting in a play was really amazing. There was the stubbornness of a teenager in every look, but the fragility that was occasionally revealed. When he bowed his head in the dim light of the interrogation room, every strand of hair was fragile, and when he looked up, his eyes were firm. The tears that he occasionally shed, his trembling pupils are fragile, and he gritted his teeth and smiled freely.
His figure walking with a hunched back seems to have carried too many stories on his back, and his face hidden in the shadows with a hat is as calm as stagnant water. But the smile he showed when he took a selfie with his mobile phone after shaving his hair was fearless, and under the light, he narrowed his eyes and looked at Chen Nian, but there was still tenderness.
This is his little north. As for Chen Nian played by Zhou Dongyu, one of the feelings this role gives me is "a sense of stripping". She doesn't show her emotions on her face. She has a depth different from her peers, but she is the one who covered the school uniform over the corpse when the whole school watched jumping off the building. She is separated from the group of students in this school, or it can be said that she has been separated from the existence.
Ordinary young people talk about their dreams with radiant eyes. When they let the Kongming lanterns fly, they have a smile full of hope. But she is different. Chen Nian is just watching by the shining smiles, but she has an obsession—going to Beijing, she can endure violence for this obsession, and she can pretend to be calm after killing someone for this obsession. For this obsession, she was not distracted in the college entrance examination room.
This character is indeed different. I often feel that she is in a state of "extraction" in this world occasionally, but she is obsessed with supporting her to drag her body forward. She and Xiaobei seem different, but they are actually the same people.
The love core of this movie is so similar to White Night Walk that I felt extra awkward watching it. Some people ask if Chen Nian and Xiaobei are directly in love, and in my opinion, it is of course love between them.
There is a line in the Japanese drama "For N" that says
"Love is a communal crime."
I wrote it after watching "Walk in the White Night"
Love is holding hands tightly in the dark, love is sharing secrets and guarding secrets together, keeping silent in the midst of lies, but having a heart to hide the truth, symbiotic love in the filthy swamp, killing everything that stands out. This love may be sinful or entangled, but they use it to fight the endless night.
This sentence is also very suitable for use in "Youth of You". Xiaobei said Chen Nian, "You are too clean, so you don't understand". I think this is probably the reason why he protects Chen Nian. The future in this thin girl's heart is bright. She has her dreams and her pursuits. No matter how dark environment she lives at the moment, she is someone who has a future in her heart.
But Xiaobei is different. He abandoned the past and the future and only left today to live, mechanically, numbly beaten, get up, get beaten, get up, and live like this. There is no tomorrow in his scarred soul, and he does not think about tomorrow. He is just living, instinctively, and the appearance of Chen Nian has given him a "reason", a reason to live.
So the boy put his head in his pocket and silently followed behind her, leaving a lonely and tough back in the crowd. They should be two opposites of white and black, but they meet in a gray area. Then heal each other, protect each other, stand back to back, and face the world silently.
As for the current situation of Chinese high school students and the performance of school violence in the film. The movie also did a good job.
The details of the movie are very realistic, such as the screeching noise that fills the entire classroom when the whole class changes seats after the exam, the iron fence installed on the corridor after someone jumped off the building, and the slogans shouted at the college entrance examination mobilization meeting with all their strength.
Different from the sunny high school life in Chinese youth TV dramas, this film's portrayal of Chinese high school environment is so realistic that people have nowhere to hide, crowded crowds, large school uniforms, red banners, heavy books on the desk, It adds a certain depressing vibe to the whole show at the beginning.
It simply made these scenes real, it didn't add anything, it didn't want to show anything, but I felt depressed, maybe it was due to my personal experience, it almost mercilessly threw me into my pain high school memories.
And school violence is something that everyone has experienced more or less. It is silent and sometimes vigorous. It slowly gnaws at the hearts of victims like termites, and then one day many years later There is a comeback, and those who have been subjected to school violence remember all the details even as adults, and these shadows stubbornly follow them, just like Chen Nian in the movie.
Campus, violence, college entrance examination, love, redemption. They are all well presented by "Youth of You".
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