The first time I saw it was when the movie was just released, back to my study abroad career in 2002. I was abroad, and loneliness and uncertainty about the future filled my life. It was also at that time that I received the music of rap. Chinese rap is the Hugou Gang, while English rap only listens to Eminem.
2000-2002, finally waited for "8 Mile". At that time, I bought a genuine DVD in a shopping mall at a very cheap price, and I still vaguely remember the feeling of ecstasy. Because there were no Chinese subtitles at the time, I watched it over and over again and finally understood the rap content in it. At the time, I just thought it was cool, and even kept learning the lyrics of "lose yourself".
In 2003, I went back to China to go to college. During the military training, I had a party with the instructors and asked everyone to perform a show. I volunteered to sing "lose yourself", but I forgot the words just after singing a few lines, like one in the movie. Just like jimmy at the beginning, he got stuck and couldn't open his mouth.
In 2018, times have changed, and now I have a 5-year-old daughter. When I watch "8 Mile" again, in addition to taking me back to that lonely era, I have three more feelings, and I pay more attention to the delicate emotional part:
1. Family, jimmy's tenderness and desire to protect his sister, especially like a father and daughter, actually reflects the love Eminem had for his daughter at that time. As a father, I feel deeply, even moved. When jimmy was beaten by the group, the scene where my sister was banging on the glass in the room and shouting jimmy's name moved me. Maybe her brother is the man who will protect her all her life.
2. At work, jimmy was rewarded from being late at the beginning to the end. It seems like a simple progress, but I found that his mentality of trying to keep the job remains unchanged. It is difficult to imagine the gangster in the eyes of others. , ruffian, will cherish a job so much, instead of idling around all day, eating and waiting to die, he will burn the abandoned house on a whim (of course, because it used to be a den of child abuse, he made this decision for the sake of his sister ), and will desperately keep their jobs in order to support their family. The ruffian is only the appearance, and having a complete and sound personality is the inside. At the end of the film, he almost gave up his blockbuster battle because he worked overtime to earn money. After winning, he had to go back to work overtime. I think because he had to go back to replace his buddy who worked overtime. Without the help of this buddy, he would not have won the final big victory. , which shows that he is not carried away by victory, and has a strong sense of responsibility.
3. Love, many people think that wink is on his woman, I don't agree with this statement, I don't understand why it is his woman? That girl did have a passion with him once, but she didn't explain that they were boyfriend and girlfriend. The girl could be with him, and of course with others. This can be seen from the last two people who didn't turn against each other. Everyone just had each other. It's just a good impression, no one is "green". And that time when I beat wink violently in the recording room because I saw the so-called "adultery", it can only be interpreted as a momentary pass. Wink should beat him, but after calming down, I feel that it is reasonable for wink to ask someone to beat jimmy. Jimmy didn't complain about the beating. It's even.
With the passage of time, Eminem sang the theme song for the latest Marvel movie "Venom", which was very nice. The song is still the same RAP GOD, the same Jimmy who sat in the bus and composed alone, and I am still the stubborn teenager who is no longer young.
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