"Over the Spring" is composed of two story lines. One is the hostess Peipei smuggling her mobile phone (in jargon: past spring), and the other is the emotional growth of the hostess Pepe in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, the two cities. (Family growth with mother and friendship with girlfriends)
But you see, Peppa and girlfriend JO’s boyfriend Ahao are in love with each other because of the smuggling business. JO learns that Ahao is in love with Peppa and slaps Peppa jealously. Ah Hao took Pepe, sightseeing on the top of the mountain and crossing the sea at night..., if Pepe’s crime story of "Crossing the Spring" is not added, "Crossing the Spring" would be nothing more than a routine. An ordinary youth school movie that can't be beaten. Once the crime suspense plot is blessed, ordinary youth campus movies become less ordinary. This uncommonly refers to not only that the plot of the movie is richer and more exciting, but it also improves the life pattern of the heroine Pepe, from the emotional growth of the pure and simple student girl to the bottom girl at a young age. Realistic subjects that have to work hard for their livelihood.
But to talk about the example of combining the theme of youth campus with the theme of suspense crime, "Crossing Spring" is far from the first.
In 2017, the film "Genius Gunner", based on the sensational Asian exam cheating case, became famous. This film about the "examination room spy war" was particularly wonderful, because in addition to the collapse of the girl's first love in the same type of youth film, the funny campus life, it also took the risk of the poor and outstanding students under the temptation of money. , The degenerate and blackening of the righteous youth driven by interests, and other in-depth discussions on fairness and temptation are included. The end of the film uses a blockbuster technique that looks like a transnational suspenseful spy war to bring the intense SAT cheating scene (crime scene) to a big restoration. As soon as "Genius Gunner" came out, it can be said that it immediately killed a series of youth romance films before it.
The film "Carnival" nominated by the 74th Venice Film Festival also takes the real female student sexual assault as the background. It is based on the series of experiences and psychological growth of the hotel receptionist girl Xiaomi after witnessing the sexual assault. After in-depth analysis, it is a very responsible youth film. When the heroine Xiaomi finally gave the video to the lawyer, she did not ask for anything in return. After that, she put on light makeup and rode away. What actually represented was the awakening of the girl's autonomous consciousness.
and "what's in the dark". It is clearly stated that the female protagonist was eager to escape the control of her parents when she was a girl, away from the interference of teachers and school education, and yearned for the spirit of "living elsewhere". However, she deliberately shaped the autonomous world that the girl was looking forward to into a dark social forest. It just so happens that there have been many cases of rape and murder with bad methods, so in the girl's nightmare, everyone around becomes suspicious, and every cold and dark place hides infinite murder.
In addition, there is also "Treading Snow to Seek Plums". The movie is said to restore the true case, alternately unfolding the personal growth stories of the young girl Jiamei and the young Ding Zicong, and finally mixed with the blood-stained heavy taste of Murder Bridge The combination of the paragraphs has attracted both the student party and the detective audience. (In other words, there are a lot of suspenseful detectives in the student party. This new model of crime + growth youth film is to follow the changes in the audience's preferences, and constantly modify and correct them.)
talks back to "Over the Spring". This movie seems to be a success in the movie Shark's eyes, because the director has done a good balance and a tight balance when dealing with the two lines of growth and crime. "Passing the Spring" is the code name of the smuggling operation in the movie, but it is actually a metaphor for a young girl to embrace spring. At the end of the movie, you will not fail to understand that in the two lines of growth and crime, the director obviously puts the focus on the former, which is called the distinction of priority.
You see, in the film, the girl Pepe and her girlfriends are looking forward to the trip to the north country in hot springs and drinking sake, the heavy breathing when Ahao and Ahao tied goods to each other in the underground workshop, and the anger of her mother but the constant family love. These are the youth sprouts close to life. Even in hardcore crime plots such as taking goods and bringing goods, evading inspections, and dealing with sister Hua, the director uses Peppa to help his accomplices cell phone boxes, everyone jokes on each other at the table, and Peppa and his accomplices pretend to be schoolboys. Evasion of the security check and other plots, easily and playfully passed, to a large extent resolve the heavy feeling of crime, and more take into account the emotions of the girl. It is especially worthy of praise that some of the clips that could have crossed the bottom line, Peipei and Ahao were at the beach, on the top of the mountain, and in the workshop. The director did enough. Don’t underestimate these details. They actually define the style of a film.Very important.
explores in a deeper sense. The English name of the movie is "The Crossing", which obviously means "crossing" and "crossroads". What it expresses is that the girl Pepe is at the crossroads of her life. It can be seen that the director still focuses on Pepe’s growth line in storytelling, which is called digging into the theme and continuing to strengthen. Geographical Crossing of
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Pepe’s father is a truck driver from Hong Kong, and his mother is a mainland junior who lives in Shenzhen. After his parents separated, Pepe became a "homeless person." When working part-time, when someone asked her where her home was, she just said "very far" because her home was not in Hong Kong. Father represents Peppa’s impression of Hong Kong. He is emotionally close, but alienated in reality, not his true belonging. But to her, the mainland is like her mother who has zero communication, and she doesn't seem to have the warmth of home. It is Pepe who belongs to both sides and is alienated from any state, forming Pepe's Crossing state. Crossing in life of
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girl Pepe herself is a contradictory complex between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, just as she is a middle school student, a Taobao agent, and a smuggling water passenger. She has the identity of both a social man and a female middle school student. When Pei Pei joined the Water Guest Organization, because her broken family was not enough to convey her emotions, she invested all her feelings in the organization. The most respected "Sister Hua" in the organization took the initiative to ask her to be her goddaughter. Pepe, who has just entered the society, is a little airy. But in fact, Pepe is not a "Sister Pepe", she is still just a child. Pepe is still Crossing in the choice between being a good child and being a "Sister Pepe".
"Cross the Spring" is not like "Genius Gunner" as the main crime card, nor is it as heavy and hopeless as "Treading Snow to Seek Plums" and "Carnival", and it is different from "What's in the Darkness" because It is difficult to grasp the primary and secondary lines of growth and crime and the discourse is blurred. "Over the Spring" is more like a documentary of pure youth growth. It talks about girls’ identity recognition, girls’ growth cognition, and girls’ emotional cognition... and crime is only used for Just wear this series of means to grow consciousness.
