"Have you drunk your first cup of milk tea in the fall?"
Suddenly, this stem has been around for a year.
In summer, there are midnight barbecues, the cacophony of square dancing, and the stuffy air that seems to freeze;
There is also lightning and thunder, and fierce winds and rain.
Just like youth, there is light, there are dark clouds, and there are rainbows.
A lot of the stories take place in the summer,
What are your stories this summer?
What is the youth in your heart?
While reminiscing about youth and lamenting the gap between the white colts, let us once again savor those movies that happened in the summer and are about youth;
Those who write with wandering, sadness, loneliness, and regret grow.
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Four movies, four flavors of sugar
01. "Heartbeat": Love at first sight, all you see is you
Do you remember the person who made you shudder at first sight? I hope this movie can take you back to your first favorite and find the youth and beauty of the past.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by children's writer Vendérin van der La Annan, "Flutter of the Heart". The story is guided by the heroine Julie's "love at first sight" of the boy Bryce next door, telling the story of the two from the first acquaintance to the completion of the "first growth" baptism together.
Julie is sweet-looking, with long chestnut hair and a pair of star-studded lake-green eyes. At the age of 7, she fell in love with his new neighbor, Bryce, at first sight. One look in his eyes was enough to make Julie's heart skim over the hurricane. Since then, Julie has embarked on a bold and enthusiastic pursuit. Wherever Bryce went, Julie followed. Even if Bryce hid from her like a plague god, he couldn't escape her clutches. The differences, contradictions, and even gaps between the two add a lot of jokes to the story.
However, after experiencing several unexpected events, Julie began to think about the meaning of love.
Especially the plane tree that runs through the film and has a profound meaning. This is Julie's favorite tree and her "spiritual home.". When the plane tree was cut down, Julie cried and begged Bryce to join her in defending the tree, but Bryce flinched. Since then, Julie has discovered that Bryce is not as fond of him as she imagined, and her liking for him is no longer fierce.
Julie's defense of the plane tree was featured in the newspapers. Gradually, Bryce finally perceives Julie's unique charm, and Bryce, who has been running away, begins to follow his heart of liking Julie.
In order to save Julie, he and Julie plant a plane tree in the courtyard together, and the two reconcile.
The "tree" allows the two children to have a different understanding of themselves. At the same time, it has witnessed the emotional changes and character growth of Julie and Bryce.
The heroine from blind love to understand the "sense of boundaries";
Boys have changed from cowardice to manhood who dares to look straight in the heart.
The plot is expressed in a soft, moist and silent way, unconsciously pulling the audience's thoughts back to the student days, when we were shy and ignorant at the beginning of the love sinus.
Some things are different after that age. After that, we never did anything so irrational for anyone, and our youth, impulses, and initial likes all stayed in that moment.
The graphics in the film are extremely beautiful, and the frames are breathtaking: breeze, weeds, sunsets, thick clouds.
This is a high-scoring movie about first love, and it is also a high-scoring life film about growing up, which is worth watching and tasting repeatedly.
02. "Little Forest, Summer and Autumn": Learn to be alone and use quietness to drive away the anxiety in your heart
The movie "Little Forest" uses the narration method to show the heroine Ichiko's comfortable, unrestrained and isolated life after returning to the mountain village Komori of her childhood. There is no tense and exciting plot in the whole film, and the slow narrative rhythm tells the pastoral life of Ichiko.
A few years ago, my mother did not quit and left only a letter. Coupled with the hustle and bustle of the city, Ichiko can not adapt, she chooses to return to the mountain village where she lived with her mother as a child, Komori.
At the beginning of the film, Ichiko rides her bicycle through the field paths, accompanied by cheerful background music, full of healing.
Cangshan green forest, vast fields, quiet and pleasant. While deeply immersed in the beauty of the Japanese countryside, the audience seems to be able to truly feel the breeze, the air is sweet, and the breath becomes lighter.
Every day, Ichiko carefully prepares three meals for himself. A life of helplessness sharpened her independence and tenacity. Even if she is alone, she will not feel lonely, but enjoy the comfortable time alone with herself. Ichiko also slowly reshapes her life and meaning in loneliness.
In terms of shooting methods, the director uses flashbacks to recall the scene where Ichiko once lived with her mother. Let the audience experience Ichiko's love for her mother and her attachment to childhood. Secondly, the process of Ichiko's cooking is shown in a close-up shot, allowing the audience to experience the food and the emotions between the characters up close. In particular, the expression of the split screen compresses the process of making food with the heart of the city, takes its essence, and enriches the form of expression of the film.
Unlike the lens of "Heartbeat", this is a film that rarely uses a lot of lens language to describe nature and people, life and meaning. If life is in motion, then nature is in quiet growth. And in the seeming silence, a silent revelation is released - throughout our lives, whether it is a tree or a person, let us understand the meaning of loneliness in growth.
In the busy life, we all hope that we can "slow down" like the city, and feel the beauty that exists everywhere in life, even if it is a grass and a tree, a flower and a stone. But it is difficult for us to be like the city, to maintain a normal heart in the boundless silence.
This film can magically fade people's impetuosity and forget their desires.
I hope that each of us can learn to be alone with ourselves, and in the long life cultivation, know how to stay calm, strong and self-disciplined. Don't be afraid of loneliness, there are flowers and stars that belong to you in loneliness.
03. "Kikujiro's Summer": The middle-aged uncle's way of growing up to cleanse his soul
Some time ago, Takeshi Kitano's complaint about the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games was on the hot search. Japan's most domineering uncle has experienced dropping out of school and crossing borders. He worked as an actor, director, and painter; sold clothes at the age of 71 and divorced at the age of 72. It seems that his life really explains what he said- "Boring life, I don't want to die." ”
As a world-class director, Takeshi Kitano tells us, or rather, for himself, a story of "forgiveness and self-redemption" in the autobiographical film "Kikujiro's Summer".
The little boy was looking for his mother in a distant place. After his idea was known to the couple next door, the kind wife entrusted the man to her husband, hoping that he would take the little boy to fulfill his wish. However, the husband is a man who has nothing to do, rough words and deeds, full of anger, and extremely unreliable in his work - yes, this is Kikujiro played by Takeshi Kitano. Thus, the two began an adventure of mutual companionship and mutual healing.
They've had a lot of funny stories along the way.-
Because of gambling, Kikujiro lost all his travel expenses on the first day;
In order to hitchhike, he uses exaggerated acting skills to pretend to be blind;
Go to the street to drink on a skewer, causing masao to be abducted by a pervert to go to the park;
Grab someone else's wind chime and give it to Masamune;
Stealing corn and stealing watermelon...
Of course, there are also scenes that make people cry --
In order to amuse Masao, Kikujiro came up with a lot of bad ideas, and tried his best to perform and pretend to be stupid. As long as you see the man smiling, it is enough;
In the process of protecting Masao, Kikujiro's childhood pain is gradually healed. He only looked far away at his mother, who had abandoned him, and then hurried away.
When the music god Hisaishi rang out, watermelons, pleasant wind chimes, spinning windmills, and waves of the sea instantly appeared in front of the audience's eyes, allowing everyone to immerse themselves in the summer that belonged to them. Even if the hot road surface and the noisy cicadas make people feel bored, but with reliance and comfort, summer begins to become comfortable and cool.
Takeshi Kitano has said that "Kikujiro's Summer" is based on his childhood. It is also a memorial to his deceased father Kikujiro Kitano. "Before my father was alive, I didn't seem to have had a decent conversation with him. But looking back now, he was really lonely. In the film, the unification of the images of the eldest brother and father in the film kikujiro is both Takeshi Kitano's glorification of his real father and a cure for his own childhood.
Japan is a nation that is good at speaking delicately in small details and talking about "enlightenment", whether it is tea ceremony or cuisine, opera or film and television, it is good at using the most simple and ordinary details to understand the truth, and this kind of enlightenment is not so much a "propaganda" to the public as it is a creator's "murmuring" to himself. Therefore, "Kikujiro's Summer" is also such a "self-talking" story, and at the same time, this "enlightenment" is three-dimensional overlapping, and children can also find a kind of "enlightenment" in ignorance.
Whatever happens, move forward with a smile and learn to reconcile with yourself and the world.
04. "Midsummer Future": Like is the eyes are red, seem to understand non-understanding, heavy heart
Chen Chen, who is about to take the college entrance examination, accidentally discovered that his parents had secretly divorced, and deliberately re-studied for a year in order to save his family. In a white lie, he mistakenly met the Internet celebrity Zheng Yuxing. In order to round up the lie, some funny things happened that were ridiculous. Under the joy, the two also have their own hearts. The film contains many elements: crush, rebellion, heat, throbbing, young girls' careful temptations of love...
The much-anticipated movie is finally released this summer. A good script can't be separated from good actors. Wu Lei and Zhang Zifeng's full sense of CP is really amazing. In the film, they also turn on self-black mode for "CP" -
"Knowing that those stars are not popular, what will they do?" They talk about love, they fire CP..."
The real and specific details, the appropriate music, make this film unique youthful texture -
There is always a long queue in the girls' toilet after class, changing seats after each exam, peeking back in class, the noise of classmates in the classroom and playground...
All of this takes the audience back to the summer that belonged to us in an instant.
At the end of the film, the two have gone through the summer, witnessed each other's transformation, and found their own future.
They are in their youth, but also give a new interpretation of the "future" -
"What is the future?"
"If the person you like at this moment happens to like you, then the present is the future."
On the road to growth, "we must also accept the reality that people we like don't necessarily like ourselves, and accept the regrets of youth." ”
But when it comes to regrets, compared with the above movies, "Midsummer Future" does have many regrets, such as not much ink on the part of the study, the college entrance examination is even more brushed over, and the ending is empty and hasty... Also talking about growth, for some well-known reasons, the protagonist's emotional direction is obviously deviated from the narrative direction that the creator should have, which is somewhat embarrassing. If you want to "follow" the emotional orientation, the story structure and the relationship between the characters must be adjusted, but the creator still insists on his own opinion, and the result is that everyone can see it, but it feels awkward.
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What is the core of a youth film?
As soon as "Midsummer Future" came out, everyone said that it was a film that "focused on the post-00s and generation Z".
And this view, I really have a hard time agreeing.
No matter how many years later, all of our youth have had fantasies, forgetfulness, and revelry;
There are grievances, there are regrets;
There is liver and gallbladder, there is a free speech;
There is wishful thinking, and there is recklessness.
No matter what era we were born in, we have all run amok with edges and corners, desperate for dreams with enthusiasm, and learn to grow because of the pain, continuous loss and regret brought about by the reality of the ideal on the rock.
It was the most innocent time in life, and it was also a period of time that I would miss infinitely in retrospect.
Like a drop of wine can not return to the original grapes, we can not return to youth;
Those we missed, the green that time took away, will not come back.
While stumbling forward, while reinvigorating, this is growth.
So, these are the stories of youth, the chapters of growth.
Not only the core of the film, but also the core of life.
People face all kinds of anxieties every day, education, career choice, promotion and salary increase, mortgage, car loan...
And people's troubles are mostly born of hardship. I can't move, I can't walk, I can't see, I can't think clearly, my heart is uneasy. Full of desire and ambition, it is inevitable that after wandering in the same place, it is inevitable that we will be bored and even irritable, so that we often think about the meaning of life and growth in the quiet of the night.
"One will at least have one merit to be proud of, anything good, to find it... With dreams, with goals, hard work will be successful. Don't be deceived by these words, nothing is good, people are born, live, die, even if it is very powerful. This statement also comes from Takeshi Kitano.
People's wishes change, and sometimes we are just stuck because our wishes cannot be fulfilled. So why can't we stop for a while? Success is good, but there's nothing wrong with not succeeding.
What matters is what you gain on the road of hard work and whether it makes you a little different.
Youth is a hasty book. I hope that no matter how you grow up and how you grow old, you can cherish the background of youth.
Well, the summer farewell is quiet, and a new story is about to begin. I hope you can write your next chapter well.
If you're in the doldrums, hopefully these films will give you a touch of ease, strength, and some new insights.