Hello everyone, this is Ma Xiangyu.
2020 has made a less than ideal head.
Sudden natural and man-made disasters disrupted everyone's plans for a new life.
But in the past half a month, we found that:
young people who were depressed on weekdays suddenly became reluctant to live.
follows the epidemic situation day and night.
practiced protective measures carefully.
In Xiangyu's view, this is all because our young people have more vigorous vitality in their bones. The recklessness and impulse brought by the
hormones may mislead us toward the worst path;
, but the beautiful vision of life deep in our hearts will guide us to make the best decision.
Recently, in a new film, Xiangyu most truly feels the powerful vitality that young people can destroy and heal-
"The Wave"
Waves
During the awards season, this film is both good and popular.
was selected as the best film of the year by the National Critics Association award , and was nominated for the best film at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. On Rotten Tomatoes,
surpassed 80% in both media ratings and audience ratings.
was also voted to surpass "Lighthouse", "Raw Diamond" and "Don't Tell Her" on the social comment site Reddit as the best of the year produced by A24.
Its brilliant performance is inseparable from the stunning performances of a new generation of young actors:
actor little Kevin · Harrison, once won the American Independence Spirit Award with a piece of "Luce" The actor is nominated for . This time,
won the Atlanta Film Critics Association Award Breakthrough Performance Award .
male number two Lucas · Hedges, everyone should be more familiar. After
made a big hit through "Moonrise Kingdom" , he also starred in "Budapest Hotel", "Three Billboards", "Miss Bird" and "The Erased Boy" .
also passed "Manchester by the Sea" , sweeping a large number of best supporting actor nominations including Oscar .
as a musical theme film, its avant-garde is also inseparable from the excellent music sound team:
industrial rock big-name band nine inch nails lead singer Junte · Rezeno and British composer Atticus斯· Ross created an original soundtrack tailored for this film. Before
, they have already scored a number of film and television works such as "Social Network" and "Girl with Dragon Tattoo" , and won the Oscar award .
also selected a large number of representative works of contemporary pop, hip-hop and electronic musicians.
includes: Radiohead, Kanye West, Lama Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean of Fahai, Grammy winner H.E.R....
is also praised by the audience as the masterpiece of the year .
Of course, all this is due to the director and screenwriter Terry · Edward · Schalz can not be underestimated. As early as in the last horror film "Night Visit" about the spread of the virus and the end of the day, he showed an amazing level of audio-visual effect creation.
format changes, atmosphere creation, and color use are all his masterpieces.
in "The Tide" this dramatic blueIn the spring story, it is even more obvious.
Kevin Harrison plays the actor Taylor, is a promising senior in high school.
He has a privileged family background and is also a campus celebrity.
became the seed player of the school team by virtue of his wrestling expertise. As long as
emerges in the upcoming season, you can easily enter prestigious universities with your expertise.
At the same time, his off-campus life is also enviable.
loves sweet girlfriend, is a very popular goddess in the school. As soon as
has free time, the two of them drove the car, listened to songs, and went to the beach to enjoy the dream and passion of the holiday party.
Youth has given him endless hope and happiness, but it can turn everything into nothing in an instant. After checking
, he learned that he had been suffering from a painful shoulder, and he had already suffered a serious muscle strain.
If you continue to participate in the competition without surgery, you will be permanently injured and ruin your sports career.
But if you undergo surgery, you will have to miss the golden opportunity, or even lose your handy scholarship, and let everyone down.
He doesn't know what to do, so he can only bear without telling his family and coach.
gets drunk, soaks in the bathtub and eats high-calorie fast food;
steals his father’s painkillers, endures pain training, and vents his anxiety and irritability in the fight with his classmates.
His tolerance and venting have become laziness and renunciation in his father's eyes.
(as Taylor's inner mood is suppressed, the frame is gradually compressed)
because of a shoulder injury, Taylor fell on the playing field unprecedentedly.
The father who learned the truth not only failed to understand him, but was angry at his concealment.
Those days of gritted teeth, but in exchange for the disappointment of the parents.
To make matters worse, his girlfriend is pregnant.
and decided to give birth to this child and raise it carefully after graduating from high school.
This is not in Taylor's plan for his future, which puts him in an even more uncontrollable dilemma.
They argued for too long.
The fiery love affair of the past gradually turned into anxious curses and sparring.
girlfriend left a word to break up, and blacked him.
Taylor has gradually fallen.
Relies on alcohol, drugs, drag racing and dangerous parties to paralyze oneself.
But once he wakes up, the appearance of his former girlfriend will appear in front of him, suffering his restless heart.
He decided to go to her at the school dance party and talk to her about it, maybe it might be possible to save this relationship.
However, as soon as they met, the emotions they tried to suppress and the violence that had nowhere to vent all came to my heart.
is in dispute, he accidentally killed his pregnant girlfriend.
Two lives and two youths are ruined.
(the constantly compressed frame becomes 4:3 at this moment, focusing on the characters and more cramped)
Although this sounds like an overly dramatic story of youth catching horses, the director Terry uses his amazing skills to transform The presentation is more tense than the suspense film.
The protagonist Taylor's situation ups and downs .
are also two fast-rotating shots. At the beginning, he and his girlfriend were singing and singing in a car driving to the beach, carefree. At this moment,
has become a nervous, uncompromising, dirty scolding and shoving.
fluently and freely switch perspectives from beginning to end.
sometimes focuses, and sometimes out of focus.
makes people feel likeBe in this immersive role-playing game.
Sometimes we are the immersive protagonists in the story, observing the rich world from the first perspective.
is sometimes a bystander separated from the crowd, perceiving the coming of misfortune from the perspective of God.
, no matter whether you choose to invade or escape, it seems that you can't get rid of this sad ending.
The gorgeous saturated colors at first seemed to symbolize the variety of youth, but now it has become a dizzying, confusing, and eye-catching sarcasm.
In the face of pain and setbacks, can ignorant young people not escape such an unsatisfactory ending?
Xiangyu wants to say, no.
ebb and flow.
There must be a low point in life, but after the low point, there will always be hope and light.
In this story, Taylor also has a younger sister of the same age.
's past elder brother's excellence, originally made her always neglected at home.
plus witnessed the tragedy of my brother at that dance party. After the
accident, he was ostracized and criticized in schools and on the Internet.
She bears the self-blame that does not belong to her, and the fear of growth and the future.
But fortunately, my sister met her own youth love affair.
With the company of this sunny boy (Lucas Hedges), she talks a lot and laughs a lot.
They also plan to secretly drive to the beach to spend a romantic and relaxing holiday like their old brother and girlfriend.
But when her boyfriend confessed to her that his father was facing the pain and suffering of terminal illness alone.
This indulgent journey of escaping reality has become a journey of healing in response to reality.
They bravely made a decision that they would not regret, and went to see their boyfriend's father for the last time. Sister
also forgave herself and her brother because of this, and wept bitterly and sent the text of reconciliation to her father.
"Don't worry."
"I love you very much."
"I hope we can talk more."
These words are often the hardest for young people to say at , but they must say .
We are not as powerful as we thought.
When faced with a problem, being persevering and arrogant, it may lead to irreparable consequences.
Don't think that if you hide it, bear with it, everything will end silently.
paper won't hold the fire.
Painful emotions will spread, and anxiety pressure will pass.
Anxiety gradually spreads like a virus, and then it will only cause more and more people to fall into misfortune.
is like everything that Taylor eventually destroyed.
may start with self-confidence, in order to maintain a long-term image and reputation, but this is actually just a selfish distrust of others.
Obviously he told his girlfriend so affectionately that he must tell himself if he is unhappy and believe he can share it.
But when he really faced a problem, he didn't tell anyone or believe it.
is also the face of frustration and youthful romance, but what my sister learned is the power of frankness, communication and mutual assistance . If
hadn't had her encouragement, her boyfriend couldn't muster the courage to meet his critically ill father. If
hadn't been with her boyfriend, her sister would not have been able to convince herself to belong to the broken family again. If it were not for her warm and powerful words, the parents whose relationship was about to collapse would not be saved and peaceful. After sharing
, the pain was half, but the courage to face life doubled.
(Be careful to open up, and the frame will re-expand)
The external blow may not be so terrible.
More importantly, when you can't deal with it alone, choose to suppress it and let it ferment, or choose to face it calmly and ask for help bravely.
In another similar youth story "Juneo" , an unintentional middle school girl who has always been independent had an unexpected pregnancy, and originally wanted to bear everything alone.
But in the end she found that asking for help from parents and confiding in friends made the accident less tormenting and less difficult.
Asking for help and showing weakness will not drop the price, nor will it be cool.
It is a decision that can be made only by people who are transparent and firm at .
Because these people have enough self-knowledge and warm heart, they are willing to believe in others, and they also know:
will not ask for help now, it will only bring more problems for others in the future.
Faced with the sudden test, the best choice is not to avoid it and face everything.
After this, life remains pure and growth continues.
