the child is back

Godfrey 2022-08-20 11:02:18

Xiaoma and Xinzhi, two bad high school students who can be seen everywhere. In my native dialect, it means "the cow has not worn its nose." Xinzhi

rides a pony on a bicycle every day to get off class, and he always follows the pony. Together, they skipped classes, cycled around the playground, played pranks on the rooftop, vandalized the teacher's precious car, blackmailed passing classmates, and went to the small cafe for drinks.
One day, the blackmailed student called Boxer to take revenge on Pony, who lost face and did not come to class for several days. Xinzhi is very lonely. The teacher told him that you don't use the pony if you don't come. It's better to drop out of school.
The pony did not disappear. He came back to Xinzhi, full of fighting spirit, and said that he was practicing boxing. He led Xinzhi into the boxing gym.

Instead of going to school, they concentrated on training. The red and blue that Takeshi Kitano used to reappear. The red pony, the blue new record, you chase after me on the road in the early morning. The impulsive pony found a direction to rush forward, and the silent Xinzhi gradually showed his stubbornness, and their lives seemed to have a brighter future.

Boxing is not won by passion alone. After just a few days of practice, the impatient pony was defeated by the steady Xinzhiquan. He couldn't accept that this guy who was inferior to him in everything was better than him, even though this guy was his best friend. He ceded the "Power Boy" boxing name to Xinzhi and left the gym. Shinji also wants to leave, but the president tells him that boxing is a personal thing. So he stayed and went his own way. Xiaoma joins the gang, he is willing to be the boss's sidekick, not with Xinzhi. The lives of the two teenagers have been split since then.

Xinzhi trains hard every day, and he is like a piece of jade, showing his talent as a boxer every day. And the pony has finally changed from a gangster to a small boss. He came to see Xinzhi in a limousine, and was sincerely happy for Xinzhi, and hoped that Xinzhi would be happy for him. The president talked to him and hoped that he would not come again. He was a little disappointed and didn't have time to have a good drink with Xinzhi. But for the future of Xinzhi, the pony left. Before leaving, he said to Xinzhi, let's meet when you become the champion and I become the boss! This is a parting with a touch of sadness and longing. Parting for a better reunion.
Alin in dark green appeared next to Xinzhi. He was a ghost in poker. Outsiders could see it clearly, but insiders couldn't tell the difference. A rambunctious Allin leads the soon-to-be-champion eagle astray, and a shining new star falls. When the eagle rolled up the bed and left sadly, he gave the glove to Xinzhi and told him to work hard. After the failure of the eagle, the president kept his eyes on Xinzhi and refused to relax for a moment. Xinzhi is a sensible child, he should not repeat the same mistakes. But that's just someone else's expectation. Xinzhi still believed in Alin. He learned to drink secretly, and learned to take weight-loss pills that hurt his body.

The eldest of the pony dies. The second brother who was exiled for the boss came back. He decides to take back his turf from the pony. On a dark night, the pony was beaten into tears by his former subordinates, and the second brother swung a knife and abolished his left hand. It was also that night that Shinji was knocked out in the ring.

The halo faded, and the young man returned to nothing, but time flies, not the same as he used to be. The boxing champion and the boss seem to be within reach, but they are thousands of miles away.

I remember a boy sitting in front of me in middle school with a mouth like an Uncle McDonald's. He liked to sing Mike Jackson's "Dangerous!" in the middle of a physics class, then kicked the door and said to the teacher with a drooling face, "I just turned big. It's gone." There was also a boy who was tall and thin, and his ribs were exposed when he played. He liked to dunk by himself and didn't like to cooperate, but he couldn't win the game without him. Both of them were dropped out of high school because of excessive absenteeism. At the high school sports meeting, they lined up at seven in the morning and saw them standing from a distance and looking this way. After the opening, the two of them smoked at the top of the stand and stood for a long time before leaving. In my memory, the sky that day was always gray, and the sun was never seen. Or maybe it's my stereotype thinking that the "bad boy sky" should be grey!

Another boy was fired for tipping off a gang fight. I haven't spoken a few times, but I only remember helping me carry a bucket of water when I went to work in the countryside. After his expulsion, he came back to cheer on the ball game in the class, and even clamored to be a foreign aid, and he was not embarrassed at all about being dismissed. He looks a lot like Song Seung-heon in South Korea. He is not very popular now. He was very popular when he played "Blue Life and Death".

In fact, I don't know them as well as Xiaoma and Xinzhi. When I saw them, I was afraid and disdainful. But I don't know why it's a bit blue when I think about it now. I don't really like the Chinese translation of this film. When I was young, I felt that a good boy and a bad boy had to draw a clear line. When I grew up, I realized that it was actually difficult to define what a bad boy was.

Every child walks while groping. The roads under their feet are intricate and complicated. It seems that many of them can walk, and it seems that any one is a dead end. Only those who walk by can see clearly. If Xiaoma and Xinzhi are bad boys, they didn't go the right way because they didn't listen to the adults, the well-behaved boy who fell in love with the cafe waitress, did he go the right way? Getting married early and carrying a heavy burden of life, unwilling to endure the pressure of the company and turning to renting, still depends on other people's faces, regretful and helpless. In the end, the car crashed and died, and I don’t know if it was an accident or I couldn’t think about it. Only those two comical comic lovers became professional actors and gained a large audience. But seeing them on stage chirping and telling vulgar jokes, not only did they not make me laugh, but they were a little sad.

At the end of the film, the unemployed and famous pony meets Xinzhi, the delivery boy, and rides his bicycle to the school playground. The pony said, nothing has changed! Xin Zhien snorted. The pony asked, do you think there are still assholes like us now? Xinzhi said, there should be no more! Then he suddenly rushed upstairs and shouted, have you studied hard! The pony said, Xinzhi should stop shouting. Xinzhi asks the pony, are we finished? The pony smiled and pushed the new ambition with his waste arm, idiot, it hasn't started yet!

The child is back, and the disobedient child hit the south wall and turned back, but where should we go next?

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  • Susie 2022-03-20 09:02:48

    Not as good as imagined, a period of rebellious youth is a bit painless and tepid. Although he understands what he wants to say about youth and loss, it is not profound. The final conclusion says that youth has just begun-inexplicably, I didn't see it.

  • Blaze 2022-03-18 09:01:07

    Only after watching "Bad Boy's Sky" do you understand why Kitano took part in "Xiao Wu" and Jia Zhangke. Before entering society, to be precise, before having a career, children are all the same. Kitano's autobiographical work satirizes education in the form of his familiar "manual talent", and at the same time questioned the secular moral concept of "grouping people by group". The two "bad boys" who escaped from the classroom are both saboteurs in the education system and legislators on the art stage: they emphasize order while ignoring order. In Kitano's view, the pros and cons of education are obvious. The bad side is that the norms take away human nature and possibilities; the good side is that the disciplines can prevent you from going astray. In the Shura Field, which is countless times larger than the school, all industries teach you to foul within the rules, and those who don't adapt can only be eliminated. Destiny is as problematic, and the children in class are confused and at a loss. Who doesn't yearn for a free playground? Who doesn't expect a different ending to his story? Therefore, just like "Guessing the Train" in 2009, this is ultimately a movie about choice.

Kids Return quotes

  • Shinji: Masaru, do you think we're already finished?

    Masaru: Hell no. We haven't even started.