Previously, from Before Sunrise to Before Sunset to Before Midnight, the story on the camera lasted for 18 years, so he really let the time outside the camera also pass 18 years, and made a film in nine years. Eighteen years ago, Julie was still a young girl with apple-like rosy cheeks, smart and playful eyes, chattering, a long cotton dress with suspenders, blond hair in loose braids on her shoulders, and a backpack on her back. His shirt was casually tied around his waist, and he and Ethan walked through the wet streets of Vienna in the thin morning light holding hands. Nine years later, her face became thinner, she talked about a bunch of messy love affairs, dressed up in jeans and a formal jacket, but she was still casual, with lines in her smile, she was still smart and stubborn, and she spoke in a row. In another nine years, she married Ethan and had a pair of lovely little daughters. Her figure was obviously out of shape, her skin was sagging, and her eyes were the grievances of a housewife who was caught up in housework and couldn't breathe. The traces of the passage of time carved out by the clock hands every minute and every second, no matter what special effects and makeup you can imitate.
Off topic. This time, the protagonist was replaced by an ordinary boy, and the story began when he was six years old, and it took twelve years to tell.
It's just the most common youthful years of a Texas teenager, the kind of youth imprint that everyone encounters in more or less different ways. The pain of growing up is not without, it can be said that it runs through, but it is not magnified or exaggerated. Parents married due to unwanted pregnancy and quickly divorced within a few years. His mother brought him and his sister to remarry several times, but their father, who loves them with a prodigal personality, comes to visit them regularly, while their mother studies while working and tries her best to take care of the siblings. Stepfathers all have a strong desire to control, and they show it little by little, either violent or alcoholism, but the ink is not deliberately highlighted. The second divorce is simply taken away, and the camera skips directly to the eve of graduation. party. The grades aren't top kids, but they're not bad either. Children in single-parent families are sensitive, precocious and rebellious, and like to think about propositions such as freedom of life, piercing their ears, painting their nails, and they are not gregarious, but they are not too withdrawn. There is no sports cell, but there is a talent for photography, and he won the silver award in the state photography exhibition. I had skirmishes with my classmates and talked about a few girlfriends. Going to the half-finished House with senior boys to party, drink, smoke, throw darts and chop boards, take turns bragging that he has dated a few girls, and read hot bikini beauty magazines on the roadside. You see, it's all these incredibly small things, and they just talked about it for two and a half hours without realizing it.
Really... these talented guys can even write a running account and write a perfect essay template.
There is a famous dish in Sichuan cuisine called boiled cabbage. At first I thought it was just boiling the cabbage heart with water to fool people. In fact, it took half a day to slowly boil a pot of broth with old hens and pork bones, and then remove the cabbage. For the outer layer, the vegetable roots are soaked in the broth to soften, and the silver needles are repeatedly punctured on the heart of the cabbage. After everything is in order, pour the soup on the cabbage with a spoon, spoonfuls, until the outer stems of the cabbage are cooked and soft. Add fresh stock.
Serve.
A clear and light movie, the person who made the movie has spent half his life.
It is said to be a youth film, a bright and sad Japanese fresh and pure love film, a shocking youth scar film with dramatic conflict, and a sweet, greasy and beaming idol drama. He is not any of the usual types. The film started once a year for twelve years. Ellar Coltrane, who played the protagonist Mason, went home during the summer vacation and told Linklater what happened during the year. Linklater then processed it into a script. Dialogue-supported story form. These dialogues are so real and smooth, as if you pushed your bicycle out of the school gate after class yesterday, met the little girl with braids at the same table, and chatted casually with her. For two and a half hours, you watched Mason grow from a chubby, clumsy little boy to a little lady with flowing blond hair, and then a low voice and a few pimples started to appear. A thin high school student with a short beard and fluff, her mother changed from a plump, cheerful and slightly neurotic girl in her twenties who can be seen everywhere on the streets of the United States to a plump, serious, and a little anxious middle-aged loving mother with neatly cut short hair. Wherever teenagers are always teenagers, even though the growth experience of American teenagers is very different from ours (as the German Village Study Abroad Party, the intimacy is private plus one star), the interspersed plots such as the release ceremony of the new book of Harry Potter Half-Blood Prince are still From time to time, I want people to wave to the boy and shout:
Hey! I grew up like this too.
When Mason, who was about to leave home after graduating high school, wanted to leave his first photo of his mother stuffed in his suitcase at home, his mother suddenly burst into tears with her head in her hands.
“This is the worst day in my life! I knew this day was coming, I just didn't know you're going to be fucking so happy to be leaving! Do you know what am I realizing? I just realize my life is gonna go like that. The series milestones! Getting married, having kids, getting divorced. The time that we thought you have dyslexia, that I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced again. Getting my master's degree. Finally getting the job I wanted, sending Samantha off to college, sending you off to college. You know what's the next? It's my fucking funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!"
"How you jump ahead by 40 years or something..."
" I just thought there would be more..."
I guess it was a picture he took of his mother. Suddenly, the nose is sore.
Where has the time gone. you just thought there would be more. But finally you find you are even going to lose what you have.
Even in this rare emotional outburst, the director's approach is calm and restrained, without any background music. As soon as the camera turned, Mason was already driving a car, galloping down the desolate highway.
Children will eventually grow up and leave home. There is only one kind of love in the world, and the end is separation.
Last year, Zhao Wei made her debut film, to our youth that will eventually pass away. Looking at the introduction, the protagonist died again?
Then I saw the line:
"All of us died in the river of youth, only you will never decay."
Immediately decided not to contribute to the box office.
I always feel that it is a particularly lazy behavior to easily write the protagonist to death in a youth film.
Looking back on those juvenile years, I often feel blood dripping.
However, the knife to gouge out the heart is an abstract metaphor, a dark self-torture and struggle in a small world, and a large section of crazy inner monologue.
In the end, either reconcile with yourself, or stop touching.
It's all about the heart, not the actual death.
I want to know how Ruan Ruan will spend the rest of her life if she hadn't died on the train.
"She seems to take pleasure in her own pain, in this kind of self-inflicted suffering (if I may say so). This kind of mentality that stimulates her own trauma and takes pleasure in it, I understand: many are tortured by fate And those who are humiliated and harmed who realize that fate is unfair to them have this mentality to exacerbate their pain and take pleasure in it." This is one of the monologues of "Insulted and Damaged".
When I was young, I wore filters when I looked at life, and I spent too much effort to move myself.
The sincerity of Linklater is to take off the filter, restore various inner images that have been exaggerated, and use line drawing to review a period of time that has been given too many annotations.
Then you see how the years have quietly let you go from that young man lying on the grass looking at the sky with bewildered eyes, and gradually become who you are now.
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