The heavy rain is alluring, and the yellow line is banned. Cheering shouts one after another, everyone is gearing up.
Until the moment the yellow line drops, all the noise disappears. Only the ticking of the hands and the pounding heartbeat can be heard. In the examination room, everyone took a deep breath, lifted a pen, buried their heads, and began to write a new destiny.
This is a scene from the movie "You are a teenager". It’s so real, and it’s so real that it turns back time-I seem to have returned to that summer, sitting in a strange examination room, because of excessive tension, there are a few seconds of tinnitus... In the movie, there are more than just scenes with great tension and aftertaste. This scene. With a box office of nearly 600 million yuan in 3 days, Douban opened a score of 8.7, and this year's domestic film market, "Youth You" has become a rare double high. It's worth it. From the release of
to the present, there have been a lot of reviews from all walks of life.
But these are not the most important. The important thing is that this movie speaks one word thoroughly. That is, "exam" .
It uses a test to open a test paper to the people in the story, to the actors on the set, and to each audience in front of the screen.
Slowly review, take a sip, and the answers filled in at the top determine the appearance of the world.
teenager, please answer the background of college entrance examination, which is regarded as an accessory of time in ordinary painful youth films, a kind of embellishment. Campus years, innocent memorial, reminiscence, or groan without illness.
"You are a teenager" is different-it combines the life test with the whole movie story, and each hero in the story so closely and truthfully. Start with the simplest lens language: the mountains of textbooks and papers in the
classroom; the children who desperately endorse despite the noise of the room; the piercing screams from the tables and chairs, the school's cheering for the children and the overwhelming The slogan of success...
Chen Nian (Zhou Dongyu) and the good students around them all look upright and sunny. Even their names are taken as Li Xiang (ideal, Zhang Yao) and Wei Lai (future, Zhou Ye). But Chen Nian's desire to get a good university may be stronger than them. Her family is poor, her father is absent, and her mother (played by Wu Yue) is a debt collector. The most encouragement to her is "you grit your teeth again". Every time someone came to collect debts, she would quickly turn off the light and squat under the table until the insult gradually dissipated. The college entrance examination is the only life-saving straw in her life. The plan to escape from here was still going well until an accident happened—a girl named Hu Xiaodie fell to the ground. The students took out their phones and used lenses instead of eyes to watch. Only Chen Nian, who was usually taciturn, stepped forward and reserved the last bit of dignity for the cold girl. At that moment, the world was turned upside down, and the injury was passed on.
The dirty water on the chair hit the volleyball on the upper body and reached the foot behind... Chen Nian never asked why? Why? Facing the humiliation, she subconsciously chose to be patient. Until he was forced to find the police for the first round of confrontation, he didn't get the expected ending. She asked the policeman named Zheng Yi (played by Yin Fang) why there was never a lesson to teach us how to become adults.
Zheng Yi can only say that growing up is like jumping into a river. There are stones, sand and shells in the river. Everyone grows up and jumps with their eyes closed. She flickered in tears, seemingly understanding. Chen Nian is not a weak person. Although she needs to be protected, her stubbornness and bravery made her dare to take out her mobile phone to call the police when Xiaobei was beaten, allowing her to say "protect the world" after experiencing wind and rain. . However, the first question of this "adult exam" is how to release one's bravery.
Compared with Chen Nian, Xiaobei (played by Yi Yang Qianxi) entered his adult exam earlier. He had already seen "reality" and "society"-it was much more difficult and complicated than the college entrance examination papers placed in front of Chen Nian. Maybe it started from the first time as a gangster; it may also be the first time I was forced to live alone; maybe even the mother’s meal of meat buns with a beating...
he is a boy, so he doesn’t need to sympathize. I didn't want to be bullied either. I started filling my own exam papers with my fist and body injuries.
faced the adult world, he confronted with his hideous face and eyes. But in the face of Chen Nian, Xiao Beitong failed to pass the exam papers such as protecting oneself, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and seeking calculations. Only on the question of whether to become a guardian, he firmly ticked. Perhaps the real growth is when he dares to take off his hat and raise his head when facing the camera again.
Born as a human, every teenager can't avoid the test paper of becoming an adult on the road to growth. In the process of shattering and reshaping, there are forgetting and persistence, paying the price, and transforming into a new one.
When Lao Yang (Huang Jue) asked Zheng Yi, "Are you growing up?", it happened to wake me up. What the
film captures is not the time for the college entrance examination, but the key time when everyone in the story writes the "grow up" answer sheet. Those who have no hope of growing up, such as Xiaodie (played by Zhang Yifan), refuse to answer.
To bystanders who have witnessed violence, such as Li Xiang, protect themselves first, and only use their eyes and words to support. Even the Wei Lai trio, who suffered domestic violence and passed it on to others, filled out this test with the cost of life and life. Although they will never get back the forgiveness and dignity of being a person.
Zheng Yi is the director's "third boy" besides Chen Nian and Xiaobei. He is childish and impulsive, and he is kind and persistent. His predicament represents the difficulty of solving the problem; his existence means that he can still be uncompromising after his biological adulthood. His existence is indispensable.
In this exam, the only difference is that Chen Nian and Xiaobei should have completed the exam papers together. In the midsummer days, motorcycles whizzed lap after lap on the road. The teenagers cuddling, passing on the warmth and smell between each other's bodies, belong to the youth of Xiaobei and Chen Nian.
Although two people always have a blue nose and a swollen face, new injuries overlap old ones, accompanied by pain.
Think about what the teenagers have gone through, think about what they are carrying, think about what they are resisting each other... and then see what they do.
"Can you protect me, I have no money to pay you." "You protect the world, I protect you." "You go forward, I must be behind."...
don't clamor for pain, try to maintain life as usual, But he never forgets to use his power to ignite hope for the other party. The tacit understanding between the beautiful young people is silent.
cut off each other's hair with a razor.
tied a few white daisies on the pillar in front of Chen Nian's house. Before
entered the police station, Chen Nian was wearing a hat belonging to Xiaobei.
...
"You are a teenager" hides too many details of the mind. In every movie shot, there may be something you didn't expect, only the tacit understanding of two people. When I watch a movie, I feel happy and firm every time I find something. Teenagers don’t need to be perfect, they don’t need to be reviewed. They have already got full marks.
actor, please answer
's "July and Ansheng" three years ago. The director Zeng Guoxiang once handed in a beautiful answer sheet. This time
filmed "You are a teenager" and his performance is even more amazing. The script narrative, lens language, editing, and persuasion are almost nothing to blame. The
movie runs through two lines, one bright and one dark, one cold and the other warm. What is rare is that Zeng Guoxiang is not overly sensational, nor does he deliberately amplify the protagonist's "tragic" and the bully's "bad".
He chose to draw a ray of light to add a warm background to the vigor and awe-inspiring youth.
This may be due to the creator’s sense of mission—it is not difficult for
to expose the bloody wound, but the difficulty is to guide the viewer to think about what is behind the wound.
What caused the injury? How can it be cured? The crew of
, who cut their heads together with the actors, bravely asked questions.
Zeng Guoxiang is very gentle to the audience; Zeng Guoxiang is really "ruthless" to the actors.
He used a lot of close-up shots, aimed directly at the faces of Zhou Dongyu and Yi Yanqianxi, and even aimed at those two pairs of eyes, allowing them to face the audience without reservation and release all their emotions. The twitching of
's mouth corners, the flashing of eyes, the movement of the nostrils, even the jitters of the muscles when breathing, will be precisely captured by the lens, and then magnified by the big screen...
is an "Olympic" level for both protagonists. Fortunately, they all held the exam papers.
White cloth shoes, blue school uniform, white cheeks with freckles-this is Chen Nian played by Dongyu Zhou. How to convince the audience that she is a senior high school student? It's not a baby face and a thin body, but the pair always dodges, but when you look directly at you, you can see the tears in your heart. I can't remember how many times Zhou Dongyu shed tears in the movie.
But I can clearly remember every emotional turn of her, full and rich, with different levelsBright. After being bullied, she called her mother.
began to want to talk about my grievances like other girls.
But when she heard that her mother was also struggling with life, she held back.
I couldn't stop the flow of tears and nose, but I still had to take a deep breath, holding back my cry and pretending to be calm.
For Chen Nian, tears are not a tool of sympathy.
Only when her emotions come too fast and she cannot control herself, or when the people and environment around her can completely let her down, her tears betray her most.
For example, when the news of her mother spread throughout the school, the classmates laughed at her one by one. Humiliation and resentment were intertwined. She clenched her teeth but couldn't hold back her tears.
For example, when she heard "When people grow up like jumping into the river with closed eyes", she was confused and unwilling, and tears flashed on the car windows.
For example, lying on a bed with Xiaobei, slowly telling his pain and happiness. Xiaobei turned around and cried quietly, and she also cried.
For example, after being humiliated by the crowd, she lay on the ground alone, sticking her homework piece by piece, facing Xiaobei, her dry tears approaching numbness.
For example, losing the person who was willing to sacrifice her future and life for her, she was in the dark tunnel, and her heartache came like heart-digging.
......
is a stubborn girl, when she can't bear it, the most touching.
What's interesting is that when we praised Zhou Dongyu for once again contributing to the "shadow-level" acting, Zhou Dongyu himself felt that Chen Nian gave her "frustration."
She loves to play and is surrounded by love; while Chen Nian is introverted and forbearing, almost all the love she should have is absent. For a time, Dongyu Zhou could not find "the pivot of the characters".
But in the end, she walked into the role in her own way and accepted it frankly. Perhaps her inferiority complex and sadness in the performance would also help interpret the role. Compared with Zhou Dongyu, the "examination questions" faced by Yi Yang Qianxi, who made her debut on the big screen, are even more difficult-this film debut is also an "adult gift" for his actor career. When
was actually selected by Zeng Guoxiang, he was in the midst of "the feeling of transitioning from seventeen to eighteen years old to adulthood, and there was a sense of energy in his eyes."
Therefore, Yi Yang Qianxi's performance is assisted by his own age, temperament and talent.
But in the same way, Xiaobei's inferiority, hostility, and destiny forced out of exudation are completely different from his own calmness, introversion, and undisturbedness. Most of the time in the
movie, Xiao Bei needs to use the injuries on his body, the cruelty on his hands, the anger in his eyes, and the slickness in his mouth to protect himself, and to conceal his inner self-esteem and confusion.
wore a hat and put his hands in his pockets. The pores, stubble, and scars were all clearly visible.
But is this the real Xiaobei? The cry of
was different from Chen Nian's, Xiao Bei laughed, and then cut open the self wrapped in "shell" layers.
was taken back to the police station as a suspect to identify the murderer. He smiled and shouted "Shut up if you want to survive". It is fearless without knowing the consequences and a childish challenge to the adult world. When
faced Chen Nian, his boyishness completely slipped out.
took a pen and paper to write "Chen Nian owes Xiaobei once". As for what he owes and the misunderstanding of "hardness or not", he was taken aback for a moment, then the corners of his mouth raised, betraying a little bit of hope and cunning, very cute.
Speaking of the meat buns his mother bought before leaving him, he smiled sadly, full of thoughts, and then changed to self-deprecating.
's softest smile is actually hidden in his eyes, perhaps even he didn't notice it.
is willing to be a shadow and follow a light; you watch the fish, I watch you; it is the back seat of the motorcycle that carries the "world", but it only feels light...
is so good, boy.
He said Chen Nian was "too clean", and the subtext was that he was "dirty".
But when he laughs, you only think that is the most true and pure existence, the bottom line of the world .
One of my favorite scenes, near the end of the movie, Chen Nian and Xiaobei are in the detention center, looking at each other silently through the glass.
one is crying and laughing, the other is laughing and crying.
The two faces between childishness and maturity gradually overlap in the light and shadow.
does not need any lines, tears and smiles have communicated everything. In the
play, Chen Nian and Xiaobei became each other’s starsEmpty; Outside the play, Zhou Dongyu and Yi Yanqianxi used acting skills to contribute the highlight moments of the film.
We, please answer:
have never seen a more real and quiet display of the college entrance examination paper than Zeng Guoxiang.
Test papers are scanned, and answer sheets are sent to the machine. The
teachers are ready to wait, as accurate and professional as the card reader.
is as short as a few seconds, but as long as a few minutes.
repeats judgment, evaluation, and marking-countless days and nights of hard-study, without mathematicians' longing for future fate, and the desire to escape the present life. In such a short time as
, the test papers overlapped on the screen. I can't help thinking of the smiling faces that flashed past the beginning of the movie. The
score has settled, but life has just begun.
Do you think it is just the teenagers in the movie or the creators of the set that have to face this test paper?
no. For the "witnesses" in front of the big screen, "The Young You" is also an exam-
Hu Xiaodie faces the camera, sadness and despair spread on the screen.
She said: "They have been bullying me, why don't you do something?"
This is not only what Hu Xiaodie said to Chen Nian, but also through Hu Xiaodie's mouth to help all those who have been or are being bullied on campus." Hu Xiaodie", questioned all the audience:
why don't we do something?
Aren’t we part of the story?
may be a weak-minded "Li Xiang", perhaps a "Wei Lai" who has lost the future, maybe the class teacher who has left, maybe the absent parent, maybe Zheng Yi who lends a helping hand, maybe it is said among countless bystanders The one who said "really annoying" puts on headphones...maybe it is Chen Nian. The significance of the
movie is not only to allow the audience to enjoy a performance that has nothing to do with them, but more importantly, to wake up the audience with the "power" of the story. "Young You" did it.
If indifference and violence are a plague, then every shout of resistance, every tear of understanding, every embrace of introspection is an antidote. The hope of
teenagers is a cure.
Maybe many people have not noticed, "You are a teenager" has an English name, "Better Days".
is a simple two words, which entrusts too many good hopes. It was Chen Nian who wrote "Living in the gutter, there are still people looking up at the starry sky", it was Xiaobei who said to Chen Nian, "You protect the world, I protect you", and it was the smiling faces of the two who were sitting in the police car thinking of each other with tears. ...... The hope of
is enough to pierce through the soil of sorrow, soothe past fears, and give birth to the strongest strength from cowardice.
As long as the youth's hope is still there, the world will not fester. You see, changes are happening-
just a few days ago, on October 21, the revised draft of the Law on the Protection of Minors was submitted to the 14th meeting of the 13th National People's Congress for deliberation.
After a lapse of seven years, the Law on the Protection of Minors has been overhauled for the first time. The revised draft adds measures to prevent and control school bullying, and a mandatory reporting system when minors are found to be violated. "Young You" appeared in due course and aroused more people's attention to "Hu Xiaodie".
Butterflies should not fall to the ground, they should fly to their sky.
As we grow up, what kind of world should we create for our children? The
movie has already asked the question, what is your answer? Please remember
-the answer you fill in
determines the look of the world.
