This is actually not a movie review in the strict sense. On the special day of 2020520, I am still single and I have watched twice the movie. Brutal reality films were abused.
I used to feel that Japanese school films have two extremes. It is beautiful, as beautiful as Shunji Iwai's "Love Letter"; it is cruel, as cruel as "Blue Youth". It is difficult for us to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the two. Just like talking about the Yamato people, we always think of "chrysanthemums and swords". They can be as bright and resilient as flowers, or as sharp and scary as samurai swords.
The cruelty of "Blue Youth" is that it shows almost the all-powerful appearance that every teenager wants to become, but the time of the story is chosen in the graduation season, and each of them has to transform or be forced to grow into a What you don't want to see.
——More realistically, most people are actually "Kujo" or "Aoki".
The creation of Jiujo was very successful, and Toyota almost preferred to show his image. Many years later, the audience may not be too detailed, but when they see a baseball bat, they can always think of the Japanese-style beautiful teenager who pursed his lips and scared the other side step by step. The scene of the lower body; the face is calm, playing the "clapping game" on the rooftop indifferently, and gaining the voice of the boss; facing the constant chatter of the enemy, just stretched out his hand, twisted the opponent's nose, and left gracefully.
——The most important thing is the amazing picture, the two teenagers lit cigarettes, puffing smoke at each other, as if exchanging each other's breath.
However, Toyota not only wants to show the peerless beauty of Matsuda Ryuhei, he is not Oshima Nagisa, and his choice to create the image of Kujo is actually very interesting. The personality change of Kujo also implies the transformation of this type of youth. They used to be very arrogant. , but still confused in the face of the future, they try to make changes, but have no choice but to sacrifice everything around them.
Looking at the early stage of Jiujo, he was violent, and his beauty was like the cold light on the polished blade. Such a character can become a gangster but rely on the simplest "clapping game". He's calm enough, calm enough, so he's the big guy. Some people may say that the game of life and death on the rooftop can also be called a simple game? But looking at society, there are many more terrible games of life and death than this. What determines life and death and the future is no longer a tangible roof, but more intangible. No one knows how today or tomorrow will come. It determines who has the right to speak in this cruel society, and it cannot be obtained just by standing on the rooftop and "clapping hands". I believe that Jiutiao, who has been standing on the rooftop, is aware of this fact. He saw the arrest of his colleague, the classmate muttering to the cherry tree, and the future of his frail friend. Jiujo is a smart man, he realizes that the future will no longer be easy to pass by standing on the rooftop and playing games or doing mischief on campus. So, at first, intentionally or not, he asked some people what they thought about the future. At the beginning of the film, he was not very able to give his own answer. The same is true for Aoki and most of the teenagers. They are addicted to the joy of doing bad things on campus, and they are obsessed with this all-powerful happy life. No one tells them what to do, everything. It's all about speaking with fists.
The change is that he sits in the front row. When I was in elementary school, I was tall and almost always sat in the back row. Later in high school, I was stubbornly inseparable from the front row. Front row, what does that mean? The closer you are to your teacher, the more you can focus on your studies. In this detail, Toyota does not even need to learn many Japanese literary films, adding a large psychological confession to express the changes of Jiujo, just add a simple scene, Jiujo sits in the front row, how Aoki calls him to play, Jiujo Indifferent. At the beginning of the film, it is depicted that Jiujo sits in the back row, but when he is bored, he will leave the classroom at will.
Aoki threw his shoes, called him, and even beat him, but Kujo didn't change, didn't look back. Jiutiao realized that if he wanted to really grow up and complete the entrance exam, he could only get rid of everything in the past. To say that everything is actually inappropriate. From the arrest of the guitar man, the "Joshien" boy who gave up his baseball cap to join the underworld, and the departure of his valet, only Aoki is left in the world of Kujo. But Kujo cruelly gave up on Aoki. He is like many people in the society. In order to achieve more success, he can only learn to let go of those emotions and relationships that he should not have.
Near the end of the film, Jiujo told the "little teacher" that some flowers would not bloom. "Little Teacher" told him that he believed that flowers would bloom, not wither. Here is a very ingenious detail. Jiutiao kept waving goodbye to the "little teacher" when he left the school after listening to it. Affected by the quality of the picture, I couldn't see it clearly. It is estimated that Jiutiao is smiling here, and the camera behind him has been facing "Little teacher" kept waving his hand, obviously Kujo said goodbye gratefully. Afterwards, Aoki stood on the rooftop, suspected of throwing something, and wanted Jiujo's attention. The people around looked back frequently, but Jiujo had already insisted on going his own way and walked out of the campus without looking back. This action design is undoubtedly a very strong opposition. Why doesn't Kujo look back at Aoki, but has a different attitude towards "Little Teacher"?
Put yourself in the shoes and think, it is not difficult to guess Jiutiao's mind. Aoki, what does that mean? At this time, Aoki shoveled his hair and was ruthless in his actions. It was like a scene of "after you leave, I will live like you". Aoki stubbornly stopped at the game of "black eats black", but Kujo didn't want to look back. Aoki, his past tense. The words of "Little Teacher" gave him inspiration and was his future tense. He wants to realize the dream of "if you bloom, the breeze will come". Therefore, he will not look back at Aoki, but will only stay away, drawing a boundary between himself and him, and the different ways are not conspiracy.
So far, Toyota has completed the basic characterization of Jiujo. People like Jiu Tiao are not uncommon in the youth campus. They can have fun, and they will not fall when it is time to go crazy, but when it comes to graduation season, it seems that they have changed their temper, sat in the front row and studied hard. How much has the defensive heart. They are smart, and once they realize the direction of the future, they will decisively say goodbye to the crazy youth of the past. I believe that many people at the class reunion also felt this way. Obviously, they were brothers who were crazy together at the beginning, but they ended up living a different life from themselves. When they talked about campus memories, they would laugh it off.
In the same way, it is not the director's ambition to portray only one character in Kujo, so he also created Aoki, Kujo's young tame dye. Aoki's image is more down-to-earth. At first, he was a bit cowardly and was a follower of Jiujo. Although he always used Jiujo as an example, the reality is that his combat power is 0. He was insulted when he went to the toilet, and he fought with the boss. Instead, he shoveled into the shit hole with one hand, and could only watch how Jiujo fulfilled his revenge for him. In his eyes, Jiu Tiao is God, and it is enough for him to follow Jiu Tiao every day. Jiujo's world is too simple. He doesn't have the music dream of a guitar guy or the baseball dream of a "Jiaziyuan" teenager. He is like us in the extreme campus. What is the plan, it seems that I am very happy as long as I eat, drink and play with my friends every day. Such people will naturally not want to leave the campus and give up the privilege of unlimited time given to them by youth.
If Kujo represents the image of the minority, then Aoki is the image of the majority. He was as reckless and impatient as a teenager. In this regard, Toyota also gave Aoki a "image" and "psychological" change - he directly asked Aoki to shovel his head and dress up as a "big guy". Similar to "I Am Big Brother", the first step to becoming a big brother is to change the hairstyle. A qualified hairstyle determines one's "official career". If you can meet the hairdresser who used to be the head of a hot-blooded college, It can be said that being a big boss is just around the corner. Of course, the above paragraph is my joke 2333333
Aoki did the things that he never dared to do on weekdays, but he still couldn't get Kujo to take care of him, and there was the last scene, which was also the saddest scene. He stood motionless on the rooftop, time passed, the sun was setting, still looking ahead. After the sun rose, he still stood where he was. (I'm curious about how this scene was filmed and synthesized?) If Aoki's haircut is his change to "evil", then the scene of standing on the rooftop is his change to "good". This goodness, in my understanding, is a "goodness" that returns to his original juvenile state, that is, he chooses to return to himself.
Aoki is a kind person after all, and most of those evil things are childishly trying to attract Kujo's attention and prove his strength. When someone has never tried to get angry, they can't wait to fight against their friends. But Aoki didn't realize the change in Jiujo, and Jiujo was unwilling to tell him. He stubbornly believed that he had lost the qualification to accompany Jiutiao, and hated himself who was abandoned by Jiutiao. So he chose to die, to keep his best years in this moment forever, and let his corpse lie on the playground of the campus.
There is a very interesting passage here. Aoki murmured that he actually wanted to be a pilot while standing on the rooftop. The final count, when Aoki watched the huge plane fly overhead, he shouted a lot of numbers in one breath, then let go and fell down the tall building. When Jiujo caught up, he saw the afterimage of his fall, and the picture that turned his head stopped at the graffiti.
Kujo wanted to escape, but Aoki finally stretched out his hand and escaped from reality with this gesture . Toyota knows the wishes of people like Aoki. They have the most youthful appearance, but they don't want to leave this campus, and they don't want to lose their past memories and friends. It's just that Aoki's death is more dramatic and artistic. In reality, there are still many people like him, no matter how they grow up, they still miss the self who used to be free on campus.
At this time, the saddest thing is that Kujo looked at the graffiti alone. At this time, he was in contrast to the person he wanted to be in his dream, but it also seemed to imply that Aoki, who had just fallen from a building and died, might have also stood alone. Here, eager to return to Jiujo's side again, sheltered by him.
In the end, Aoki and Kujo, why don't they look like our youth, only to face a hasty friendship and a melancholy and cruel parting.
Back to the story itself, this is actually a simple story. The little gangster Jiutiao wants to take care of himself and strive to be a leader in learning. He is arrogant and ignores the little gangster's sidekick and the young tamed Aoki. The two become estranged and part ways. If we change the plot a little bit, Kujo tells Aoki that he wants to get into the school, and we can work together. This story will become "The Spice Girl at the Bottom", so inspirational, maybe Kujo and Aoki will hold hands and live together at Keio University. What Aoki thought was that Jiujo got into trouble because of his own few words, and acted against him, and he was simply against him. From beginning to end, he was still the Aoki who wanted to tease Kujo to play with him.
Nine did not know. His personality is withdrawn and cold, and his personality is destined to not explain too much to Aoki. The two flirted with smoke and smoke rings, and then fought violently. The two used body language to intimidate each other, but they could not learn to tell each other what they were thinking in words.
However, Kujo realized this too late. The moment he opened the door, he remembered Aoki's words when he was young, he was just a simple boy, the boy who wanted to continue to grow up with him. However, the boy who wanted to continue to grow up with him chose not to grow up in the way of eternal sleep. Aoki was more or less aware that Kujo was different from his own.
Blue youth, blue spring, blue is such a beautiful color, but it also contains melancholy and sentimentality in English. In fact, based on the story, the real name of the film should be called Melancholy Youth. However, youth should not be like this. Its color should be like the blue sky. It symbolizes freedom and vastness, as well as pure beauty. There are students like Kujo and Aoki on campus. They may be crazy, but eventually they will grow into what they want to be. Toyota is here to describe a more cruel campus, and everyone will grow into the most hated appearance.
This is youth, blue youth, your youth and mine.
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