Movie "Cheek"
At the age of fourteen, they steamed the summer until parting.
It's a road movie that tells the story of two boys who make their way south in the summer of fourteen.
For them, the distance is not the destination, they are obsessed with the indescribable heat in the summer, the dappled sunlight falling on the eyelids, the golden heat rising from the field, the warm current rushing through the blood vessels, and the heat of abandoning life without a dirty word.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 All the way south without a map</h1>
The film begins with an accident scene under the illusion of overlays and alternative punk music, with pigs pushing and shoving at high speed to disrupt the accident scene, and mike, one of the film's protagonists, appears with a face full of blood.
Mike is the most ordinary Mike, like the Chinese "Bob" who has been labeled, becoming a symbol of all invisibility in the class, becoming a lonely and boring "freak".
Cheek is a Jewnese gypsy, a Northeastern teenager with the sad breath of alcohol, and a fierce, out-of-place look like a "neurotic."
Cheek loves Mike's cool jacket and pool and invites him to spend a cool summer with him. True youth is in such a summer, strongly settled into their lives and blood.
Throw away your phone, throw away the alcohol, and "borrow" a blue car. It's a trip without a map, and as long as you go all the way south, you can see the destination.
Don Quixote, a sad knight, rampages under the windmill, and everyone says he's a fool. And now the two neurotics and freaks who had been excluded from the class had also crashed into a starry windmill field, telling stories about what had happened on a distant planet.
If you believe that a Star Wars will take place on another planet, then someone on a distant planet will also believe that the "car-stealing kid on Earth" is planning a summer all the way south.
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The offbeat punk music in the film and Richard's Adilina by the Water accidentally matched.
This light music accompanies almost the beginning and end of the film, and they use this music to walk through the fog, pass through the fields, and get out of this summer in a chance accident.
Adilina is derived from Greek mythology, a lonely king created a beautiful statue of Adlina, day by day, and finally fell in love with the statue, he prayed to the gods for this love, and finally touched the god of love, the statue finally had life.
In the movie, "Adilina by the Water", which has been played by the two many times, is not the "Wedding" of mature love, nor the sad thoughts of autumn, but the Adilina in the first chapter, symbolizing the initial purity of love.
Mike's fondness for Banhua based on "appearance" is the pure emotion that he did not understand when he stepped into his youth.
After meeting the dirty Issa, Mike truly enters the stage of sexual enlightenment. He talked vaguely and timidly about "making love" and helped the girl cut off the messy hair.
The gentle touch of the girl's hands on her knees captured something intimate, something obscure and heartwarming that had never happened before.
Issa, who has become short-haired, is naked, her back blurs the boundaries of gender, and she is more like a man, holding the initiative. Next to him, the skinny Mike had short hair to his chin, as if he were being placed on the opposite side of a man.
It's like the vague and gradually distinct gender consciousness in youth love, but it's more like a declaration that gender is not a hard formula in love. The fact that Cheek then tells Mike that he doesn't like girls is a testament to this statement and the film's understanding and respect for this group.
About the love of youth, it is also rendered layered and multi-faceted. Love doesn't have to be a gender male or female, but a you.
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It seems that all road movies have to have the necessary elements of surprise and thrill to make the narrative more full.
Cheek's summer is, of course, a must:
Drive your name in a cornfield with a car;
Engrave names on the unattended stone floor and agree on future encounters;
Naked in the clear waters of the river, clean as the thin clouds in the sky.
Even the most difficult parting of youth is tempered by compromise in the folds of summer. Their parting may seem like a careless arrival at the next bus stop, but it also puts the reunion into a footnote to their future journey.
That's what fascinates me most about this movie, that encounters can burn a summer, and parting is planned as a starting point.
Mike learns that dancing doesn't have to be on land, and that drinking can be melancholy in the water.
I don't want to simply understand Cheek as every ordinary person we want to have, but can't be.
Becoming Cheek doesn't require throwing away all the big bets, not the special romance of the water dance steps, or the glass touching and hearing the sound of dreams. Whether it is a freshly dressed and angry horse in bold words, or a sword in the hot boiling, all the moments we live seriously are the golden age of ordinary years.
So, I think Cheek is who we are, in a rebellion in our youth, and in an unexpected act. I am Cheek who enjoys running in the rain, and you who are saying goodbye are also Cheek.
It doesn't need to be crazy, just be happy enough.
Author | Lin Tanabata
Tanabata was born in Lin Tanabata
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