Do you think "Young You" is talking about bullying? No, I'm talking about the desperate love
No teenager can live out of that cruel summer, and there are not a few times that love can be so desperate and indomitable.
No matter how Chen Nian, Xiaobei’s sentence and jail time are set in the movie, the two teenagers and their desperate love are buried in the cruel summer.
"You are a young man" is out! Like "The God of Medicine", it became a phenomenon-level movie with almost vacuum schedule after the National Day. A very important sign of phenomenon-level movies is to make most of the audience empathize with their own situation. After watching "Young You", teenagers will think of their classmates, teachers, friendship, schoolwork and love; adults will recall the bullying they or those around them have been, and empathize with the middle-aged livelihood and the original family , Children’s company and other social issues; fans will scream that idols can both flow and act; and whether the original novel is original or not, the endless discussion at all levels proves that this is a movie that can be discussed from many angles.
has been searching for a long time to find an entry point that I haven't seen and written for a while, and discuss the desperate love in the movie.
"Love for you, die for you, live for you" is a very important motif about love in the traditional Chinese context. For thousands of years, the freedom of love has always been a very rare luxury in this land. It has only been a hundred years for Chinese people to have the right to choose their spouse freely. There are only a few themes about love in traditional Chinese literature, almost all of them are tragic themes. From Meng Jiangnu to "The Peacock Flies Southeast", from "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" to Lin Daiyu to Jia Baoyu's love, all are poignant and sacrificed with their lives. It also proves the difficulty of living in this cultural context, the difficulty of love. It also leaves a stereotype of thinking that true love must be worthy of death. In Western culture, the story of Romeo and Juliet who sacrificed their lives to love will probably be the Titanic.
In the movie, the love between Chen Nian and Xiaobei, from joining forces to resist bullying and advancing to a common confrontation system, has undergone layers of pressure and has become more shining and spontaneous. In the
movie, there is no such a design for Xiao Bei to die, but it conveys the attitude that Xiao Bei is willing to die for Chen Nian. And Chen Nian accepted Xiaobei's sacrifice not to live selfishly to fulfill his dream, but also to give Xiaobei a chance to complete the sacrifice of love. Only in this way can Xiaobei complete the almost impossible sublimation from the dirty gutter.
Maybe Xiaobei’s words and deeds are mixed, but his soul is tempered by his loyalty to love, and his soul is extremely pure, which is why we like this character so much. Because everyone has always yearned for a leap for love and the sublimation of their soul. But most of us finally chose to live and continue to drag the heavy body. Therefore, this kind of plot of life for love and death for love is clichéd, but it must be tried again and again. Although the beauty of the double tragedy of love and life is traditional and clichéd, it is powerless to resist. The flowers of life and love have just bloomed and will wither. Chen Nian and Xiaobei on the screen are crying for the hardship of their lives, and the audience on the screen is also crying for men and women. They must be thinking about their youthful love that died without a disease.
Let's review the timeline of Chen Nian and Xiaobei’s love, how this reckless love happened, and how a good student Chen Nian and Xiaobei from being a stranger to life and death .
On the surface, Chen Nian and Xiaobei are two people from different circles in the school and the society, and they seem to have little chance to meet. In fact, their meeting seemed accidental, but in fact it was inevitable. Although Chen Nian’s space for activities during the day is limited to the school, the inability of parents to take care of them outside of school creates a vacuum and has the opportunity to get to know children like Xiaobei who also have no guardian. Even if it is not Xiaobei, it will be Xiaodong, Xiaonan, Xiaoxi. Therefore, the current social reality is that qualified families basically shuttle their children to the school gate, point-to-point transportation and supervision. If the parents do not have the financial resources and energy, and the care is not in place, there will naturally be a small gangster at the school gate to take over your child.
When Chen Nian and Xiaobei first met, there was still a slight class difference. The gap was caused by family care. Chen Nian's single-parent family is in financial distress, and her mother is also a life failure, but her mother can still give a little bit of care in form. The psychological support provided by this kind of care in calm conditions can barely be balanced, but when you encounter troubles and need stronger support, you can only rely on your mother to be far awayHis love cannot help Chen Nian cope with the pressure of reality. In this case, Chen Nian will inevitably fall to Xiao Bei who has the time and energy to accompany her.
is not necessarily poor Xiaobei in reality, but may also be a wealthy big brother. A real example that happened to me was a high school girl whose parents were divorced, who were unwilling to go back to her father’s house or mother’s on weekends and holidays, and lived in a house rented to her by a married elder brother I met online until the high school graduation exam. Parents don't even know when they go to college. At any rate, no life was lost, and the girl's talent was considered good, and she was admitted to university safely and broke up with her elder brother.
If a minor child does not get enough mental and material support from his family, he will inevitably slip to someone who can help her. Maybe the person who helped was unbearable from a secular point of view, but that was the only straw that the child could reach. In short, under the promotion of various external factors, Chen Nian and Xiaobei met inevitably and fell in love with each other because of their illness. The whole movie of
can be divided into the campus bullying part and the evading detection part by taking Wei Lai’s death as the dividing line.
Campus bullying is part of the reason for the love between Chen Nian and Xiaobei. This part of the love is the kind of young, shy, tentative, and rejected hazy love stage, with the unique sweetness of youth love.
But with the death of Wei Lai, the young love quickly became mature and bitter in the face of cruel reality. Just like roasted coffee after washing, it is bitter and sweet. There is no description of joint crimes in the
movie, but it is a difficult consideration and choice for any ordinary person to solve such a life and death problem. Two people can only save one. Who to save? How to choose? Here the director gave a very classic Chinese answer. Xiaobei, who is relatively humble, sacrificed himself in order to protect the one he loved. It also projects the kind of loyalty complex of young and Dangerous boys in Hong Kong movies that Director Zeng Guoxiang said. Many brotherhoods of the young and Dangerous are not inferior to love in terms of intensity.
Some discussions said that from a rigorous analysis of details, during the interrogation, it is impossible for two people to make a consistent response without breathing each other. I personally think that this movie is not a particularly rigorous criminal reasoning movie. In the second half of the movie, when the police began to solve the case and investigate, the theme has shifted from bullying to how young people escape the predicament. After a period of emotional development between Chen Nian and Xiaobei, the values of the two have been unified, that is: in this world of sewers, one can escape from one, and one can keep one person without background and flaws. The source of Xiaobei's livelihood is not clear in the movie, but it is certainly not just about turning the phone. The time I went to the warehouse to settle the money, and the time I cooperated with the identification of the rapist, pointed to Xiaobei as a "social man" who had not only entered the Public Security Bureau once. In this case, the realistic choice is to make consistent statements to ensure that Chen Nian can be a normal person. The plot of the
film is layered layer after layer because of the well-known twists and turns, but the director’s main intention can be roughly deduced by restoring the brain. There is a plot that I personally think that the grass snake gray line contains more cruel ambitions. It was the section where Zheng Yi was probing in front of Chen Nian's house after the college entrance examination results. What if Zheng Yi said that Xiaobei is an adult is true? There is no information to support Xiaobei's adulthood, but the tearful eyes of the two little people crying, and the appearance of each other, I suspect that it is the director's benevolence and can't bear to make the movie too cruel. In fact, it is a high probability thing in reality. Because of this movie, the public opinion is clamoring to revise the age of criminal responsibility. Here, I just want to say, please let the bullets fly for a while and let the dust fall a little.
Regarding the performance of the actors, the performances of the two protagonists Zhou Dongyu and Yi Yanqianxi needless to say. It can be said that they have withstood the most rigorous test of the audience. It is rare that all of the supporting actors are online. The bullying Xiaohua with a lot of roles played well. But it is Wu Yue, Huang Jue and Yin Fang that are even more amazing and embarrassing. What is amazing about
is that the performances of these people have gone up to a higher level compared to their previous skills. What's sad is that when they were young, they all had good looks and temperament to win. It's really a time for people to grow old. It's getting old. Although Wu Yue has acted as the protagonist of many TV series, this time she completely gave up the baggage of appearance and became a real middle-aged mother. This mother is ordinary and poor, and she doesn't have much ability or knows how to love children scientifically. Talking about, busy surviving, in a better state than Yan Bingyan in "A Thousand Arrows Through the Heart". The plot of Chen Nian dyeing her mother’s hair is so down to earth, which girl hasn’tA mother has dyed her hair. Dyeing your hair while talking about family planning is the truest mother and daughter ecology. If Wu Yue continues to maintain this kind of acting feeling, the middle-aged women's acting ecological ranking must have her name.
Another person who put down the burden is Huang Jue. Huang Jue has a little more film and television works in recent years. This time, he put down the burden most thoroughly. You know, Huang Jue, Geng Le, and Liao Dan are all from the literary niche. In the past, the attitude of a few of them was that regardless of the amount of money or the amount of drama, the fan must have it. Even in "Master", Huang Jue's role as a garland is also very handsome and handsome. This time he became a very blessed and greasy uncle police officer, calm and sophisticated, and very comfortable to watch. In fact, Geng Le has already taken the lead in "Carnival" for the (old) Xiaosheng turning into an uncle. But Geng Le’s father is still a middle-aged artist who is not four or six, far behind Huang Jue this time. Another
is Yin Fang, who plays the young policeman. In the past few years, Yin Fang once starred in the movie "Blue Bones" directed by Cui Jian with an image close to fresh meat, which can be understood as the role of Huang Xuan in Cui Jian's "Fang Hua". The real male lead role, but unfortunately the movie is too small and has little influence. After that, younger fresh meat rolled in, and Yin Fang did not play the leading role again. Younger fresh meat has begun to seize the territory, leaving few opportunities for niche niche like Yin Fang.
There is not much information about the policewoman Wang Li and the actor Xie Xintong. I personally think it is the most facial character in the movie. Although the role assumes the correcting function of Zheng Yi played by Yin Fang, if Zheng Yi’s policeman is a somewhat humane state apparatus, then the role of the policewoman is to erase that trace of warmth and political correctness. At present, the images of policewomen in most film and television images are stereotyped, facial makeup, and negative.
Most of them have short hair or pony tails. Although they look smart and neat, they have simple thinking, irritable, and irritable when it comes to critical junctures. They are also good at grappling and fighting in the imagination of the people. In order to highlight the wit and bravery of the male policemen, most of the time they play the role of pig teammates. I have to say that the dwarfing of the female policeman makes me quite angry. Of course, letting women take on the task of violent machines is itself a paradox in image creation. Although there are also policewomen themed works such as "Police Flower Swallow" and "Going Home for the New Year", in general, there is no image of the policewomen group in place. Diao Yinan's short film "The Policewoman" is profiled from the perspective of loneliness and alienation, and it has no particularly good effect. This is not a pity. This group is too small. I hope that the policewomen in future film and television works will not be designed as brainless pig teammates even if they are not the protagonists.
