"We Graduated" is a youth love movie starring Yao Xingtong, Xie Binbin, Cui Baoyue, Yan Jiaying and others. The film takes twelve years of time as the line, uses interspersed narrative, cross-contrasts memories with reality, and tells the story of a group of young people who will eventually face life better with their friendship and secrets after the entanglement of love and hatred. After reading it, I only feel that the wind is messy, and there is still an indescribable sadness. Literary and artistic films should really calm down and watch them slowly and silently. The funeral of Leng Yinuo, one of the "Five Gentlemen of Street Lamps", brought together five people who had not reunited in twelve years in different identities. In the high school era, the intimate "street lamp five gentlemen" went from relying on each other to about to be separated. During the short and beautiful summer vacation, they were full of laughter and anticipation for the unknown, without pain or disappointment in life. Twelve years later, the destiny of each character is far from the dream he set originally. Gradually, it seems that we have all changed, becoming unfamiliar, alienated, and not so happy. Those big dreams that were once have been defeated by reality.
Leng Yinuo should be the most optimistic and cheerful person among the three girls. As a result, he was the first to abandon life. After graduation, it means that he is an adult. But in the adult world, there is no "easy". The word, the model, in the eyes of others is "you make money by walking", Yinuo laughs at himself, "Say I am a good girl, do you sleep well", only I know the bitterness behind, I want to marry the person I like, Unwilling to commit suicide.
Hong Yang, who wants to go to Shenzhen to fight for a career, has been in the wind and rain for twelve years, but in the end he is just a "sticky little prince" struggling to survive. Dreams are so easy to realize. Many things are not exams. As long as you work hard, you will be rewarded. Only when you are in society, you will know what "society" is.
Yang Fan married Momo. Both parents did not agree. They just got a certificate and walked from the school uniform to the tomb of the marriage. "This marriage is a tomb full of flowers. It looks very good. In this way, outsiders don’t know.” The life of the two was not happy after marriage, because of Momo's concealment, the important thing is that Hao Ran has always been a grudge in the hearts of the two. Momo, who was tortured by the pain, said, "You smell it, I have no fragrance, it's all medicine." While torturing herself, she was torturing Yang Fan and torturing each other. Quarrels, cold wars, all kinds of contradictions, once you and I were each other's best first love, and later evolved into the most familiar strangers. "What made us what we are today."
Hao Ran became a newspaper reporter, working overtime every day, working hard, and still not being recognized by his boss. Under the impact of new media, the industry is facing a reshuffle, which means that Hao Ran will also face unemployment. The pressure of life forced her to drink medicine with cola every day.
The separation of friends, the responsibilities of life, the pressure of society, the broken dreams, all that is left is devastated. I remember that Bei Dao wrote in "Visitors from Poland": "At that time we had dreams, about literature, about love, about traveling across the world, and now we drink late at night, when our glasses meet, it is the sound of broken dreams."
At the end of the movie, Momo chose to forgive Hao Ran, let Yang Fan go, and went to the death agreement alone. And Hao Ran also chose to leave. When she asked Yang Fan if she had liked herself, she saw the plain Yang Fan and she understood that she had always been in unrequited love. Yang Fan also got on the departing train and embarked on his dream journey. There is no climax in the movie, just plain narration, fragmentary pictures and memories to hide the actual hysteria.
Time has passed, life should look forward, don’t look back.
