Back in time half a century ago, against the background of war in the great era, the love affairs of juveniles, like wild reeds, are fragile and savage and grow savagely.
Although the four teenagers and girls have different family education and growth backgrounds, their ignorance in adolescence is exactly the same. Even if the problems faced are different, they are full of synergy.
Francois is full of talent and suffers from the difficulty of falling in love with someone he shouldn't love. In addition to not knowing how to forget him, in my opinion, the most important thing is self-identity. Francois is contradictory, he is weak but dares to express love, he has a bad heart but can run for his friends. Such a sincere and pure person clearly knows that he should not fall in love. He even went to the shoe store to ask someone like the owner of the shoe store, but the shoe store owner's answer was not available for reference. , Can't remember the juvenile affair.
At the end, after Francois made a brave statement to him, the results were heartbreaking. "Let it pass" really makes people feel empathy, and understand Francois's heartbreak and pain at that time, youth is just like this.
Serge is realistic. He is facing the pain of losing his brother, and even wants to compromise with reality by getting married. What impresses me most about him is that he is so sincere. "I don't want you to see me getting an erection" is really a cute big boy. His ignorance of lust, in the process of groping, captured Francois' heart invisibly, but love is like this, even if it is unrequited love. He was so sober again, and he understood life profoundly: "I am afraid to forget my brother. What is more terrible than the war is that life continues." This is the cruelty and coldness of reality. As Mu Xin said, there is no mercy in the world.
In my eyes, Maite is such a bright and precocious girl, even if the boy she likes is gay, she also has a rich spiritual relationship with him. Even if her political beliefs are different, she can still fall in love with Henri irresistibly, and she said so profoundly, "Love, not necessarily together." This is also the answer to Francois's confession.
Henri is like a knight in his youth, he finds his sense of belonging in a way of ridicule, and in my eyes he is full of courage. He dared to burn propaganda posters with gasoline, he dared to break away from boarding school, and he dared to let Francois love himself. He is looking for a sense of belonging in the ups and downs, but Maite's love fills his life with light and hope, not just courage.
In my opinion, "Wild Reed" has crossed the times to a certain extent. Although we are different from the four boys and girls, the problems we faced in our youth are common. This may be a problem created by human nature. Human nature never evolves or declines due to the changing times. The film is moving, the green vitality is surging with the restlessness and ignorance of youth. Even if growth is invisible and minimal, all questions are "let it go".
Perhaps, like the owner of a shoe store, we will hand over the problem to time, and only when a stranger asks rashly will we remember the surging youth of the past.
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