film was at 2 hours and 41 minutes, after the noodles raped debolar, debolar took the train and left for Hollywood, and then entered the second half, which was just over an hour later. time. This is unreasonable in terms of time, and it is not so obvious in terms of plot, so why is it set as the first and second half here, I think this is a too important character's emotional demarcation point.
The relationship between Noodle and debolar is the same as the relationship between the hero and the heroine in the Jack London novel "Martin Aiden" that Noodle read while hiding in the toilet, it is the relationship between the diaosi and the goddess. Deng is a living diaosi, he does everything he can to win the favor of the goddess, who is all his ideals.
Everyone knows this point. In the film, the little noodles take over the job of burning the newsstand. The little friend told the noodle bug that he doesn't like to be late. He doesn't care. He ran two back and forth on the street. Look.
It can be said that after so many years of being a gangster, being a gangster, trying to get ahead is not what noodles really want to do. If there is no debolar, maybe the ideal of noodles is just to open a fruit stand. In this regard, noodles and max are very different. Debolar's ambition is a famous actress, max's ambition is the commanding heights of the entire American power, and noodles' ambition is just a woman.
Does Delobar love noodles? Love, from leaving the door for noodles and reading poems to him, on the first night when noodles was released from prison, she dressed up and looked around nervously. All kinds of tenderness, including some details when she met when she was old, proved that she loved noodles.
Debolar loves the noodles himself, just as the poem says: his eyes, hair, and skin are beautiful, but his clothes are shabby. What Debolar doesn't love is the identity of the noodles. I need not dwell on the ambitions of this woman.
I am guessing here that every time debolar is unfeeling towards noodles, it is basically subconsciously urging this man to fight and go to work. She hates men hanging around under her pomegranate skirt, and on the night the noodles come home from their sentence, debolar flirts with him: you can go and watch me dance when you are free. Noodles says: Go every night. Debolar's expression changed immediately.
I think basically young boys have a goddess of their own. This goddess can survive for a long time in their hearts, and after the age of the world, the goddess will eventually be put down. If he does not go to prison and has a normal youth growth experience, I can still see debolar every day, experience emotional entanglements, other temptations, and social experience, maybe he just let it go, or he doesn't take it seriously.
But noodles didn't, you must know that he spent 12 years in prison, his youth was stagnant for 12 years, and he was released from prison in his 20s. His feelings for debolar are still as strong and childish as when he was a teenager! ! The intensity and childishness of the utter loss and subsequent rape when learning that debolar is about to leave the noodles speaks volumes.
Rape if you don't get it? Maybe not for a man with a normal emotional experience, but probably for a teenager with an abnormal emotional experience.
All directors choose this place as the dividing point between on and off stage. The dividing point is that the noodles got the goddess and lost the goddess in their own way. This is too important for such a man to continue his life and career.
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