Some time ago, a movie suddenly topped Douban’s real-time popular book and video list.
, a movie that was born 29 years ago, has once again appeared in the public eye after recommendations and searches by movie fans. From today's perspective,
has neither eye-catching visual effects nor famous actors; nor does it have an exaggerated plot or shocking twists.
However, it conquered countless viewers with a warm and childlike story and received a high score of 9.1.
Today we will talk about this unpopular masterpiece that "went viral overnight".
crocodile sneakers go to the end of the world
the cure
Director: Peter Horton
Screenwriter: robert kuhn
Starring: Brad Renfro/Eric Egan/delphine french/mona powell
Type: Drama/Adventure
Production Country/ Region: United States
Language: English
Release date: 1995-04-21
Film length: 97 minutes
* Warm reminder: This article contains spoilers
The story in the film takes place in a quiet town, surrounding the two characters in the poster The little boy unfolds.
11-year-old Eric lives in a single-parent family and depends on his mother.
But his mother was busy with work and had the habit of drinking, which made Eric rarely feel the care from his family and relatives.
At school, Eric was also the target of bullying and pranks.
Naughty boys would make fun of Eric and give him unpleasant nicknames, which turned Eric into a surly teenager.
Eric’s neighbor is also a single-parent family, but the situation is completely opposite.
The neighbor's mother Linda has a very close relationship with her son Durst . Linda cares about Durst meticulously and always provides him with the greatest degree of love and companionship.
But unfortunately, Durst will never grow up like a normal child.
Because in a medical accident, Durst was infected with AIDS during a blood transfusion.
In that era of talk about Ai Sebian, Durst's story quickly spread throughout the town.
All parents are deeply afraid and do not allow their children to get close to Durst.
At the beginning, Eric also kept a distance from Durst.
Separated by a fence, the two of them were playing with toys in their own garden.
Eric tries to talk to Durst and learns that AIDS is not spread through the air.
So he bravely climbed over the fence and played with Durst.
They arranged positions for all the planes, tanks and villains, turning the entire garden into their "military base".
With frequent interactions with Durst, Eric also met Durst's mother Linda.
She often invites Eric to have dinner at home, and all the delicacies she cooks are always eaten up by Eric.
Once Linda made ice cream, and after Eric ate, his eyes lit up at Durst's unfinished ice cream.
Linda said: "Although the doctor said that saliva is not contagious, for safety reasons, it is better not to take risks."
Eric was not disappointed, but said excitedly: "I have a plan, as long as Durst's As soon as the disease was cured, we went to the ice cream shop and ordered a huge sundae, and we all ate it with spoons. "
From this plot, we can see that Eric has no discrimination against Durst, and neither does Linda. When thinking about Eric, they both put each other in an important position in their hearts.
Linda choked with tears and praised Eric's plan, and then left silently.
Because she knows very well that such a simple wish can only be a luxury at the moment of illness.
The possibility of Durst being cured is very slim. Every day now may be the last day of his life...
With Eric by his side, Durst lived a very happy life every day.
Sometimes, they will encounter a naughty little boy who verbally abuses Durst, who has AIDS.
At this time, Eric would bravely fight back, hit the other person on the head with a rock, and then the two of them would drive away in the supermarket shopping cart.
The world of children is always full of whimsical ideas. Durst couldn't bear to see his friends being tortured by illness, and began to research various treatment methods.
He was inspired by scientists' discovery of penicillin and believed that there must be curative ingredients in candy .
So he asked Durst to use his pocket money to buy all the candies in the convenience store, and made a "periodic table of candy" of different types and doses every day. He also used himself as the experimental control group to help Durst cure his disease. .
But the final result was that Eric himself ate too much sugar and got up in the middle of the night to vomit.
Eric still refused to give up. He was inspired by the movie and wanted to use herbal medicine to treat Durst.
He traveled to every corner of the garden, collected leaves from various unknown plants, and carefully recorded Durst's feelings and reactions after eating each leaf.
But the end result was that Durst ate poisonous leaves and was sent to the hospital in the middle of the night.
After this accident, Linda did not blame Eric.
Instead, Eric's mother learned of his association with Durst and gave him a severe lesson.
After the failure of candy therapy and herbal therapy, Eric was still unwilling to give up.
He read in the newspaper that a doctor in New Orleans had discovered a cure for AIDS, so he quietly left home with Durst to find the doctor.
The two of them were riding on a raft, with a toy alligator pulled on the back, floating down the Mississippi River.
This journey to seek medical treatment is also an adventure to explore the world for Durst.
Due to illness, he has never traveled far, and he will lose strength if he is even slightly tired.
Under Eric's leadership, he saw the stars in the sky, the fish in the water, the bridge on the river and the people rowing... These were all scenery he had never seen before.
Although rafting is interesting, the speed of travel is very slow, and Durst does not have much medicine left with him.
In order to reach his destination as soon as possible, Eric went to the pier to find a boat, and finally spent all his money on a boat bound for New Orleans.
The boat owners were two adult men, and they also took two other women with them.
The days of sailing were boring, and the two captains flirted with the two women for fun.
In the eyes of Eric and Durst, romance in the adult world is both strange and curious to them.
While taking a break, Eric discovered an adult magazine on the boat.
And inside this magazine, there were hundreds of dollars in cash hidden.
They were shocked and put the magazine back into the distance.
At night, Eric and Durst were driven to the shore by the boat owner and needed to set up a tent to sleep.
During the night, Lidster became ill and trembled all over. His clothes and sleeping bag were soaked with sweat.
Not only that, Durst also had a dream he often has: he was walking alone in the universe, surrounded by endless loneliness and nothingness.
When he wakes up, it is dark around him, and he feels as if he is no longer in the world.
Eric exchanged his clothes and sleeping bag with Durst, and then put one of his shoes into Durst's hand.
He told Durst that as long as he sleeps with this shoe, it will always remind him that he is still living on this beautiful and safe planet, and he is by his side.
After dawn, Eric and Durst wanted to continue on their way, but the boat owner was reluctant to set off.
Eric quietly came to the ship, stole the money from the adult magazines, and then continued to New Orleans with Durst.
But it was soon discovered that he had stolen the money, and the ship owner pursued the two of them, pushing them to a dead end.
Eric took out the knife he carried with him, but in front of an adult man, this obviously had no deterrent effect.
In desperation, Durst cut his hand with a knife and told the other party that he had AIDS.
The man looked at the wounds on his hands, and coupled with the fear of AIDS, he did not dare to take a step closer.
Durst continued to press forward step by step, stretching out his bleeding hands to force the opponent away step by step.
No one thought that the virus that had been tormenting him would play an important role at this time.
And after being protected by Eric countless times, he was finally able to stand up and protect Eric like a superhero.
After this contest, Durst collapsed to the ground due to exhaustion.
Eric looked at the injured Durst, thinking of the medicine he had almost taken, and finally made a call for help.
They got on the bus home, and Linda was already waiting at the station.
After returning home, Durst was taken to the hospital.
His physical condition is not good and his condition is not stable, so he needs to continue to be hospitalized for observation.
And they finally learned that the news about AIDS cure in the newspaper was false.
The days in the hospital are always very long. Eric occasionally sneaks some candy to Durst, but his condition is too serious to eat candy.
As his condition worsened, Durst gradually felt pain even when he spoke, but he could still communicate with Eric tacitly.
The two of them often played pranks: Durst pretended to be in a coma, and Eric cried and went to the doctor. When
was waiting for the doctor to check, he was startled by Durst who suddenly woke up. At this time, the two of them were having fun nearby.
On this day, the two of them carried out this prank again as planned.
A doctor rushed to the ward anxiously to check. Eric carefully hid by the window, expecting the doctor to be scared by Durst.
But this time, Durst never woke up.
At the funeral, Eric came to visit Durst.
Linda gave Eric and Durst some time alone so they could say goodbye.
When Eric left, she found that Eric had one bare foot and no shoes.
And when she returned to Durst, she saw Eric's shoe being held tightly in Durst's hand.
In fact, there was also a shoe under Durst's feet that was taken away by Eric.
He came to the familiar river, put the shoe into the water, and watched it float down the water.
I believe that this shoe will be able to reach those places that they have never been to...
The plot of "Crocodile Sneakers to the End of the World" is not complicated, but it is full of the innocence and warmth of the children's world. The original name of the
movie is "The Cure", and the two protagonists in the film have also completed the healing of each other.
As Durst’s mother said, what really scares Durst is not the virus itself, but the loneliness of being excluded because of the virus.
Eric's company is the best medicine, and it is precisely because of his appearance that Durst spent the happiest time in his life.
For Eric, Durst and Linda made him feel the warmth of family that he had never experienced before.
As he spent day and night with them, the missing part in his heart was slowly filled, and he became a complete person.
Overall, "Crocodile Sneakers" can definitely be called a warm and healing road movie.
Today, as film shooting technology becomes more and more advanced and industrial assembly line products appear in droves, this kind of sincere and touching work is even more valuable.
hopes that every audience can find the rare warmth and touch in the adult world in this movie full of childishness, adventure and imagination.
