Jim, the protagonist of the 1995 Hollywood film "Diary on the Edge", is a high school student in a mission school, who is rebellious and reckless. He is also a member of the high school basketball team and dreams of winning the National High School League championship. He mingled with three other players on the basketball team all day long. They skipped classes, stealing, fighting, and picking up girls. They squandered their youth in the streets, and they sought excitement in extreme adventures. However, unlike the other three, Jim likes to write. He carries a diary with him to record what he sees, thinks, and feels in life at any time. In those poetic sentences, he seems to have become another person. This sometimes attracts ridicule from his friends, but Bobby admires his talent very much and thinks his creation is an outstanding "artwork". Bobby was Jim's best friend and the best player before the team, but he unfortunately died of leukemia at the age of 16. Jim started to come into contact with drugs during a "Hunting Beauty" activity recommended by his friend New Joan. With Bobby's death, he fell into deep pain. He tried to find relief and comfort in religion, but the priest of the school was rude and arbitrary, and had no time to pay attention to his confusion and pain. As he grows older, Jim's relationship with his mother has become more and more alienated. He is no longer a "good boy" who obeys his mother's instructions. His mother's comfort also disgusted him, and he became a "stranger" in the eyes of his mother. Perplexed and distressed, Jim began to indulge in drugs. Drugs make him feel ecstatic, and drugs make him extremely satisfied in hallucinations. Due to the increasing drug addiction, Jim was muddled and made mistakes on the court. In the end, he and two other drug-addicted friends were expelled from the team and dropped out of school. After returning home, after a fierce argument with his mother, Jim was kicked out of the house. Drug addiction broke out from time to time, which made Jim and his friends miserable. In order to raise drug money, a group of people were even more bold and "doing no evil." If Jim in the past was just adolescent rebellion, sometimes mischievous, and sometimes making mistakes, but he has always adhered to the bottom line in his heart, and always has the dream of basketball and the beauty of words. But now he is gradually degenerate, he threw the basketball trophy into the trash can, and under the trouble of drug addiction, he can no longer write a word. In order to obtain drugs, Jim lost his pursuit, lost his dignity, lost his bottom line, and became a horrible walking dead. Jim was later arrested and imprisoned on multiple charges. In prison, he finally gave up his drug addiction and started writing again. Perhaps some satisfaction came too easy, but the pain and embarrassment left behind are more profound; sometimes you think it is just a rebellious attempt, but your whole life will slide into the abyss uncontrollably! This film root Based on the autobiographical novel of American writer and musician Jim Caro. The young Leonardo DiCaprio contributed wonderful acting skills to the film.
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