Youth movies are an irresistible temptation for many people. The reason is simple: "We're all getting old!" Who wants to miss the chance to be naive, obsessed, and crazy again in two hours? Directed by unknown director Stephen Chbosky and based on his best-selling novel of the same name, The Perks of Being a Wallflower depicts the different youth of a group of high school boys and girls through a suspenseful exploration of the boy Charlie's mental distress. This is a very watchable movie. The main factors for the success of the movie are the master's mastery of the following aspects: First, monologues and flashbacks, as traditional narrative tools, have successfully promoted the development of both light and dark lines of the story. . The mental distress of the protagonist Charlie is the main content throughout the film, and the narrative is displayed through the bright line of Charlie's self-healing and the dark line of exploring the cause. Monologue is a narrative tool for bright lines. The film begins with a monologue written by Charlie, telling the audience that this is a silent boy who is used to speaking to himself with a pen, but that he is sensitive and insightful. As friend Patrick said: "You see things and you understand. "(You observe things and can understand), Charlie is an uncompromising "wallflower boy". The monologue tells that after Charlie entered high school, neither his junior high school classmates nor his brother's former football teammates were reluctant to greet him .In craft class, when Charlie met Patrick for the first time, the latter made fun of the teacher, but sadly got the nickname "Nothing" (nothing) that he couldn't get rid of. When he got together with Patrick and Sam siblings , the tone of the monologue became positive, telling about the various contacts with the new circle of friends, as well as the English teacher's encouragement and help to him, and led to the Rocky Horror Show. Later, Sam sent a Christmas gift to Charlie, the carrier of the monologue from Paper becomes a typewriter. Throughout, the monologue tells the story in a sober tone and incorporates Charlie's 'wallflower' kind of onlooker perspective and commentary, not only effectively advancing the narrative, but also In a direct way, the film's peaceful and restrained tone is established. Flashbacks are a narrative tool for the underlying line of etiology. Childhood shadows and the suicide of a friend caused Charlie to break down and become a nervous, cautious and even a little autistic People. Entering high school, he decided to get out of the shadows, make friends, and actively heal himself. After meeting Patrick and Sam, the happy legal siblings, Charlie became more cheerful and his mental distress seemed to be relieved. As the relationship with the new friends deepened, the memory of the death of the aunt gradually emerged in Charlie's mind. Why did the death of the aunt cause so much mental damage to him? The dark line of exploring the cause gives the film a suspense. Several flashbacks in the picture, step by step to solve the cause of Charlie's mental distress. The first flashback happened after Charlie saw her sister being beaten by her boyfriend. A woman who has been emotionally traumatized, Charlie has a deep relationship with her aunt. The second flashback is on Christmas Eve, after Charlie celebrated her birthday with her family, remembering on the side of the road where her aunt had left before she was going to give her He buys a birthday present. Reveals Charlie's deep guilt over his aunt's death, and suggests that his aunt's influence on him may also have something to do with "sex" (a flashback takes place in Charlie The night of our first kiss with Sam). When Charlie witnessed Sam and Craig kissing each other and going through the pain of broken love, the flashback of her aunt being hit by a car appeared. The fourth flashback is still about Sam, and Charlie out-of-body kisses what he thinks is the prettiest girl in the room, Sam (and not his girlfriend at the time, Mary) Elizabeth), which led to a break with his circle of friends, with scenes of his aunt crying in the kitchen, the funeral, and his clenching aunt's hand. At this point, Charlie's love affair with her aunt was very clear, and her aunt was Charlie's only female love interest before Sam. This Oedipus plot is overshadowed by another strange, inexplicable feeling. It wasn't until the fifth flashback, when Charlie and Sam were finally infinitely close to each other and Sam touched Charlie, the answer was finally revealed. Charlie wasn't just stunned by his aunt's death because of guilt, and the "little secret" between them wasn't about buying a birthday present. His aunt's lewd behavior towards him was the key to his mental distress. The use of flashbacks explains why Charlie became a "wallflower", with childhood sexual experiences and conflicts affecting his activities, interests and personality (Freud). In the process of flashback, Charlie is constantly moving towards the disease, but also towards healing and new life. Second, the use of symbols gives the film more connotations and symbolic meanings. The whole film is filled with various symbols of time and emotion. Books, records, cassettes, and typewriters evoke fond memories of the pre-Internet era. The film also embeds popular symbols such as homosexuality, transvestite, pedophilia, and drugs to increase the visibility of the story. The Beatles records play a key role in the narrative. Charlie gave Sam a Beatles record called "Something", much to Sam's heart. The song "Something" about a boy's obsession with a girl is actually Charlie's confession to Sam. As the story progresses, we are surprised to find that this record is not just a Christmas gift that Charlie chose for Sam, who likes nostalgic songs. The original owner of the record is the aunt that lingers in Charlie's mind. And my aunt got into a car accident just to buy this record. Charlie's transfer of the beloved record to Sam represents a transfer of his love from his aunt to Sam, and an act of Charlie's attempt to forget the troubles and heal himself. In addition, the tunnel in the film also presents a symbolic symbolism. At the beginning, accompanied by "It could be another" by The samples change", the camera has been moving in the tunnel, and the tunnel has been given an unknown symbolic meaning. The second time the tunnel appeared was when Charlie and Patrick were driving home from a party. There's a song on the radio that the three of them haven't heard before, and Sam is excited to think it's suitable for going to the tunnel. Sam stood up in the tunnel and opened his arms, flying freely like an eagle, Charlie looked at the beautiful and passionate Sam and felt self-release for the first time, "I feel infinite". This is Charlie through "participation" (the English teacher said to him: "You should learn to participate. Elizabeth's weird punk + Buddhist mash-up beliefs, Alice's jeans-stealing fetish (despite the wealth of the family). As a "patient", Charlie is healed by the "doctors" around him, and he is also a "doctor", treating a disease called "youth" among his friends. Through this contrasting setting of characters, the theme of the film has been sublimated. On the surface, it is a confession of a mentally troubled teenager, but it is actually a kind of understanding and thinking of the film author about the specific time period and emotional content of "youth". "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a film with a strong sense of reality, a typical "prototype story" (Robert McKee). Even if we are in a different culture, even if we haven't seen the Rocky Show, taken drugs, or cheered the football league, we still feel the emotions and experiences of the characters in the story. Who hasn't had the green years of confusion, hesitation, helplessness, and madness? Who has not suffered from a disease called "youth"? Based on excellent novels and adapted scripts, the film brings a universal life experience to the audience. It is about youth and love. It is a true and warm youth monologue. December 26, 2012
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