In recent years, there have been endless films about the growth of young people.
There is "Nobody Knows" in Japan, which tells the four children abandoned by their mothers, looking for the strength to survive in the process of constant loss.
There is "Miracle Boy" in the United States, which uses sweet but not greasy chicken soup to educate you on the universal values of being kind. Our country has "Youth in Youth". Let's see how those children who face bullying at school still don't forget the bravery of looking up at the stars in the mud.
At this year’s German Film Festival, a film about how teenagers redeem themselves after suffering a family change caught the audience’s attention. It was the comedy "About Hans Peter's" directed by female director Caroline Link. "Everything", the film has gained 3.16 million viewers in Germany and has a good reputation. It is also known as the dark horse of German films this year.
is different from many fictional drama films. This film is adapted from the autobiographical novel of the famous German comedian and writer Harper Koklin. It mainly tells the story of the nine-year-old boy Hans Peter and his family and friends. childhood. The
movie does not adopt exaggerated dramatic conflicts to present the plot, but adopts a first-person perspective and a balanced use of tragicomedy to tell the story with tears in laughter. Such a simple and clear narrative is also very easy to empathize with the audience and produce a strong sense of conviction. The first half of the
story is also a typical light comedy style. In a small German town in the 1970s, a boy named Hans Peter lived with his mother and grandmother because his father was on a long business trip. The movie also focuses on his comedy talent and the colorful world in his eyes since he was a child.
He is born with a happy ability, and this ability and a light narrative style form a sharp contrast with the tragic tone of the second half of the film, and it also brings the audience a great emotional change. It is obviously much more advanced than the sensational way in traditional movies to earn the audience's tears.
In addition to the protagonist Hans Peter, the two roles of mother and grandmother are also very successful in this film. The mother of
is cheerful and optimistic, and her grandmother is unbelievable. They gave all their love to Hans Peter and made the boy's childhood life extremely happy. However, these two important female characters have passed away one after another, which undoubtedly caused the young children to be indelible. Psychological trauma, especially when he saw his mother die next to him.
From a psychological point of view, the most intuitive change for children from the lack of the role of mother is to fall into a state of loneliness. The fundamental reason is the incomplete construction of intimacy.
Because in childhood, most of our lives depend on the elders. The need to be loved and cared for constitutes our initial understanding of the concept of companionship in our childhood, like in the movie, in Hans Peter’s subconscious feeling After his mother and himself drifted away, he chose to use a funny way to amused his mother to keep the good times and fresh people, but found that everything was in vain.
So until the funeral, he would burst out suddenly, hiding under the park bench and refusing to face reality.
Here through the first perspective of the characters, you can clearly see many hidden emotions, which are meaningful. From what he seemed to be calm at first, to tears on his funeral journey, he squatted in the closet and cried silently, smelling his mother's skirt. He would also go to the place where his grandmother and mother used to open a shop to find the memories of the past, but he was finally awakened by reality. Director
does not hesitate to write and focus on the emotional changes and speechless behavior of a nine-year-old child after the loss of a relative in the second half of the film. On the one hand, it is to illustrate the intuitive role of the original family in the growth of the child. On the one hand, it takes Hans Peter's use of joy and laughter to heal others as the main thread, throughout the film, aiming to illustrate the truth that love is the only answer to redeem yourself in an uncontrollable fate.
is like Hans Peter, after experiencing a brief period of pain and depression, he can still smile at life, because he has been living in a loving family since he was a child, he will also use love to care for others and save himself with love.
But after watching this film, you will find that the biggest difference between it and our Asian movies is the way of expressing emotions. Due to cultural differences, we Orientals are mostly euphemistic and introverted in expressing emotions. This kind of oriental implicit beauty It also causes us to tend to leave blank forms in art and culture, including dramas about family life, which will giveThe space and artistic conception that people imagine infinitely.
But "Everything About Hans Peter", as a mainstream German comedy film, tells a story of growth that is as simple as water in the most simple and straightforward way. For Chinese audiences, it is difficult to understand When the German culture doesn't even know who Happi Koklin is, it may be that the movie feels dull, and Douban's score of 7.6 points and the slightly polarized evaluation is the best proof.
But objectively speaking, although the film also has certain flaws, such as certain characters' facial makeup, over-sufficient emotions, etc., the flaws are not concealed after all. Movies wrap the core of sadness through the shell of comedy, and use the form of film art without processing and rendering, turning the plain story into a smoky atmosphere, returning to life, and returning to the homely taste that we are familiar with. We show the exhaustion and hardships of life, and carry many unanswerable questions, which inspire everyone to pay attention to life itself and express themselves faithfully and sincerely.
In this regard, the movie is more like a mission full of narration, but also a poetic pursuit. In this story, love is a medicine to save the soul and overcome loneliness. And I prefer its second translation title-"This Boy Must Be Released". The so-called release is an attitude towards life, an understanding and respect for life.
It tells us that life is hard, I have a long deal with me.
In these pains, no one can give you eternal support and understanding, nor can you empathize with you, but at the bottom of life, only relying on yourself to struggle in the mire can you truly understand the meaning of life and life. Just like the boy at the end of the story, he said to himself, "I want to be awake all the time like a clear sky."
So, the past and lost will eventually wear out over time; those now The ones that are owned and warm are the most worth cherishing, so take good care of them. From the beautiful and warm beginning, growing up shiningly in many sufferings, and finally having your life shiningly, telling yourself proudly: I have been here, I have lived, and I loved.
(the picture in the text comes from the Internet)
