Today I am watching "April Story". I have seen "Love Letter", "Flower and Alice", "Dream Traveler" and "Everything About Lily Zhou". It seems that only "Everything About Lily Zhou" has a hint of it. Black aura, everything else is blindly simple and clean. Simple adolescent protagonist, male or female, simple piano score, monophonic, slow. Bright photography, soft-light lenses, always seem to have sunshine, simple plots, boys and girls feelings, like a world without any smoke of gunpowder. Beautiful.
It's an emotion. The director worked hard to whitewash youth and create aesthetics, one after another, more than seems paranoid. Everyone loves this beautiful world, and everyone has a kind and simple youth complex. I dare not refuse to be beautiful, although everyone knows that youth is so simple.
As a result, another group of cruel youth was born.
There are many masterpieces, and they are shown all over the world, as if there are more fans of this faction. This may be the two main themes of youth, beauty and cruelty. This is the best day of my life, but also the most embarrassing and rebellious day. Youth is always accompanied by two colors, red and blue, red is passion, blue is melancholy, the two primary colors have been running through our youthful years, until condensed into memory, turned into bits and pieces, an old day , come at your fingertips and smile knowingly.
Standing on the tail of youth, looking back, half of my youth is over, and there is still half left. Watching and watching so flow away, the best time is understandable. There's no reason to complain, I've walked through.
PS: Taiwan's youth films have always been among the best. In the early days, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Yang Dechang had many masterpieces. The latter's "Guling Street Teenage Murder" was finally finished some time ago. Four hours is really a huge project. Recently, there are Yi Zhiyan's "Blue Gate" and Chen Yingrong's "Seventeen Years Old Sky", both of which are new directors and new directors, fresh and pure. The subject matter is related to homosexuality, the former is female, the latter is male, but the expression is completely different. The former only involves a little bit, while the latter is almost absurd. It is somewhat similar to Cai Mingliang's film. A lot of absurd and iconic symbols are strengthened, but unlike Cai, there is no dullness at all. This is a gay comedy, there are hardly any female characters in it, all are handsome guys, and the men on the street seem to be gay, always sunny, fresh and bright, just relaxed, funny, romantic and warm, without any burden discussion. fun.
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