"Have you had your first cup of milk tea in the fall?"
A flash, this terrier is also a year.
In summer, there are midnight barbecues, the cacophony of square dances, and sultry air that seems to freeze;
There are also lightning and thunder, and wind and rain.
Just like youth, there is light, dark clouds, and rainbows.
A lot of stories happen in the summer,
What stories do you have in this summer?
What kind of youth do you have in mind?
While remembering our youth and lamenting the passing of time, let's once again look back at those movies that took place in the summer, about youth;
Those growing up with uncertainty, sadness, loneliness, and regrets.
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Four movies, four flavors of sugar
01. I hope this movie can bring you back to the memory of your first love, and find the youthfulness and beauty of the past.
The movie is based on a book by children's author Wendelin van Zandt. Van? De La Annan's novel of the same name, "Thumping Heart Flipped". The story takes the heroine Julie's "love at first sight" for the boy next door, Bryce, as a guide, and tells the story of the two of them from their first acquaintance to the *** together to complete the baptism of the "first grown-up".
Julie, a sweet-looking girl with long chestnut hair and starry, lake-green eyes, is seven years old when she falls instantly in love with her new neighbor, Bryce, who makes her heart skip a beat. One look from him was enough to send a hurricane through Julie's heart. From then on, Julie's pursuit is bold and passionate. Wherever Bryce goes, Julie follows. Even if Bryce avoids her like the plague, he can't escape her clutches. The differences, contradictions and even gaps between the two add a lot of laughs to the story.
However, after a few unexpected events, Julie begins to ponder the meaning of love.
This is especially true of the sycamore tree, which is used throughout the movie in a profound way. This is Julie's favorite tree, her "spiritual home". When the sycamore tree was cut down, Julie cried out and asked Bryce to defend the tree with her, but Bryce backed down. Since then, Julie has realized that Bryce is not what she thought he was, and her love for him is no longer strong.
Julie's defense of the sycamore tree was featured in the newspaper. And gradually, Bryce finally realizes that Julie's charm is different, and Bryce, who has been avoiding it, begins to follow his heart in liking Julie.
In order to win Julie back, he and Julie planted a sycamore tree in the courtyard and got back together.
The Tree' allows the two children to see themselves differently.
The Tree has helped the two kids understand themselves differently, and it has seen Julie and Bryce's relationship change and character grow -
The girl has gone from blind love to a sense of boundaries; the boy has gone from cowardice to a manly man who dares to look at his own heart.
The boy goes from being weak to a man who dares to look at his heart.
The plot is a soft and silent expression, which unconsciously draws the audience back to the student days, when we were shy and unaware of our first love.
Some things are different after that age. After that, we have never done so irrational things for anyone, our youth, impulsiveness and initial like, are only stuck in that moment.
The movie is a beautiful film, with heart-thumping frames: the breeze, the weeds, the sunset, the clouds.
This is a high-rated movie about first love, and a high-rated life movie about growing up, which is worth watching and savoring over and over again.
02. The Little Forest - Summer and Autumn: Learning to Be Alone, Driving Away Inner Anxiety with Quietness
The movie "The Little Forest" shows the cozy, uninhibited, and isolated life of the heroine, Ichiko, after she returns to her childhood village, Komori, in the mountain village, in a voice-over narrative. There is no tension or excitement in the movie, and the slow pace of the narrative tells the story of Ichiko's idyllic life.
A few years ago, his mother left without saying goodbye, leaving only a letter. The busy, bustling city is too much for Ichiko to handle, so she chooses to return to Komori, the mountain village where she lived with her mother*** as a child.
At the beginning of the movie, Ichiko rides her bike through the fields and trails, with a cheerful soundtrack that is full of healing.
The mountains and forests, the fields are vast and secluded. While the audience is y mesmerized by the beauty of the Japanese countryside, they seem to be able to truly feel the fresh breeze, the sweet-smelling air, and the lightness of their breath.
Every day, Ichiko meticulously prepares three meals for herself. Living without support has sharpened her independence and resilience. Even when she is alone, she does not feel lonely, but enjoys the cozy time alone with herself. Instead, she enjoys being alone with herself, and Ichiko slowly reinvents her life and its meaning in the midst of loneliness.
In terms of filming techniques, the director utilizes flashbacks to recall scenes in which Ichiko lived with her mother. This allows the audience to experience Ichiko's love for her mother and her attachment to her childhood. Secondly, Ichiko's cooking process is shown in close-up shots, allowing the audience to experience the food and the emotions between the characters up close. In particular, the split-screen presentation compresses the process of Ichiko's heartfelt cooking, taking the essence of the movie, and enriching the expression of the movie.
Unlike the camera work in Thumping Hearts, this is a movie that rarely uses a lot of camera language to describe nature and people, life and meaning. If life lies in movement, then nature lies in growing quietly. And in the seeming silence, it releases a silent revelation - throughout its life, both the tree and the man, let us understand the meaning of loneliness in growing up.
In the busy life, we all hope that we can be like the city as "slow" down, heart feel the beauty of life everywhere, even if a grass, a tree, a flower, a stone.
But it's hard for us to be like Ichizo and keep a normal mind in the boundless silence.
This movie can magically fade away people's impatience and forget their desires.
I hope that each of us can learn to be alone with ourselves, and know how to stay calm, strong and self-disciplined in the long practice of life. Don't be afraid of loneliness, there are flowers and stars in loneliness that belong to you.
03. The Summer of Kikujiro: A middle-aged uncle's path to spiritual growth
Some time ago, Takeshi Kitano's tirade against the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics hit the hot spot. This most domineering uncle in Japan has experienced dropping out of school and crossing the border. Being an actor, director, painter; selling clothes at 71, divorced at 72. It seems that his life truly illustrates what he has said - " Boring life, I do not want to die. "
As a world-class director, Takeshi Kitano tells us, or rather himself, a story of forgiveness and self-redemption in his autobiographical film, The Summer of Kikujiro.
A young boy, Masao, wants to go far away to find his mother. When the couple next door learns of his wish, the kind-hearted wife entrusts Masanao to her husband in the hope that he will take the boy to fulfill his wish. However, the husband is a man with nothing to do, rude words and behavior, gangly and extremely unreliable - yes, this is Takeshi Kitano's Kikujiro. So the two embark on an adventure of mutual companionship and healing.
Along the way, they have a lot of funny stories -
Because of gambling, Kikujiro lost all the money on the first day of the trip;
In order to hitchhike, he pretends to be blind with pompous acting skills;
Going to the street jerking and drinking, which led to Masao being abducted by perverts to the park;
The two of them are in the middle of a journey to a park, where they are in the middle of the night. park;
Robbing someone's wind chime to give to Jung-nam;
Stealing corn and watermelon ......
Of course, there are also scenes that will make you weep--
In order to make Masuo happy, Kikujiro comes up with a lot of bad ideas, and tries his best to act and pretend to be silly. As long as he sees Masanao laughing, it is enough;
In the process of guarding Masanao, Kikujiro's childhood pain is gradually being soothed. He only looked away from his mother, who had abandoned him, and left in a hurry.
When the music god Jean Hisaishi's "summer" plays, watermelons, wind chimes, rotating windmills, and the waves of the sea instantly appear in front of the audience's eyes, allowing everyone to immerse themselves in the summer that belongs to them. Even if the hot pavement and noisy cicadas make people feel bored, but with the reliance and comfort, the summer is beginning to become soothing and cool.
Takeshi Kitano has said that The Summer of Kikujiro is drawn from his childhood. It also honors his late father, Kikujiro Kitano. "During my father's lifetime, it seems like I didn't have a decent conversation with him. But looking back now, he was really kind of lonely." In the film, the unification of the older brother and father figures in the movie Kikujiro is both a glorification of Kitano Takeshi's real father and a healing of his own childhood.
Japan is a good at the small details of the delicate, "enlightenment" of the nation, whether it is a tea ceremony or cuisine, opera or film, are good at the most simple, ordinary details to understand the truth, and this understanding is not so much to the public "preaching This kind of realization is not so much a "proclamation" to the public as a "murmur" of the creator to himself.
No matter what happens, walk bravely with a smile on your face, and learn to make peace with yourself and the world.
04. "The Future of Summer": like a red-eyed, seemingly understandable, heavy heart
Chen Chen is about to take the college entrance exam because he inadvertently discovered that his parents have long been secretly divorced, and in order to save his family, he intentionally failed the exam and repeated a year. In a well-intentioned lie, he mistakenly meets the Internet celebrity Zheng Yuxing. In order to fulfill the lie, some hilarious anecdotes occur. Underneath the joy, the two of them also have their own problems. The movie contains many elements: crush, rebellion, dryness, throbbing, teenage girl's careful trial of love ......
The movie that everyone has been waiting for is finally being released this summer. A good script can not be separated from a good actor. Wu Lei and Zhang Zifeng are full of CP sense is really amazing. In the movie, they also "CP" to open self-hacking mode --
"Know those stars are not red, they will do? They will fall in love and speculate on CP ......"
Real specific details, appropriate music makes the film unique youth texture -
After class there is always a long line in the girls' restroom, after each exam to change seats, the classroom back to peek, classroom and playground The uproar of classmates ......
All of this allows the audience to go back to the summer that belonged to us in a flash.
At the end of the movie, the two went through the summer, witnessed each other's metamorphosis, and also found their own future.
They are at the height of their youth, and they give a new interpretation of "future"--
"What is the future?"
"If the person you like happens to like you right now, then now is the future."
On the road to growing up, "We also have to accept the reality that the people we like don't necessarily like us, and accept the regrets of our youth."
But when it comes to regrets, compared to the above movies, "The Future of Summer" does have a lot of regrets, such as not much ink on the part of learning, the college entrance exam is a one-off, and the ending is empty and hasty ...... The same talk about growing up, because of some well known reasons, the protagonist's emotional direction is clearly deviated from the narrative direction that the creators should have. The creator should be narrative direction, which is a bit embarrassing. If you want to "go with" the response to the emotional orientation, the story structure and character relationships should be adjusted, but the creator still insisted on their own views, the result is: everyone can see, but they feel awkward.
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What is the core of a youth movie?
When "Summer Future" came out, everyone said it was a movie "focusing on the post-00s and Generation Z".
And it's really hard for me to agree with that.
All of us, regardless of our age, have had fantasies, forgetfulness, and revelry in our youth.
There are grievances, there are regrets.
There is a lot of love for each other, and there is a lot of free will.
There is a lot of love for each other, and there is no doubt that we are going to be able to find it in the future. strong> There is wishful thinking, and there is defiance.
Regardless of which era we were born in, we have all been with the angularity of the rampage, the heart of the blood for the dream at all costs, but also because of the ideal of touching the reef of the reality of the pain brought about by the constant loss and regrets to learn to grow.
That is the most innocent time in life, but also a period of time that will be infinitely missed in retrospect.
Like a drop of wine can not go back to the original grape, we can not go back to the young;
Those who we missed, time to take away the youth, will not come back.
Stumbling forward while revitalizing, this is growth.
So these are the stories of youth, the chapters of growth.
Not only the kernel of the movie, but the kernel of life.
People are facing all kinds of anxiety every day, education, career choice, promotion and salary increase, mortgage, car loan ......
And people's worries, mostly born in distress. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money to pay for the work you do. Desire full, ambitious, can continue to spin in place after the inevitable boredom to cranky, so that we often in the quiet of the night to think about the meaning of life and growth.
" People will have at least one advantage to be proud of, what is good, to go and find it ...... hold the dream, hold the goal, efforts will be successful. Don't be fooled by these words, nothing is good, people are born, live and die, and that alone is awesome. "This quote is also from Takeshi Kitano.
People's desires change, and sometimes we just get stuck because our desires can't be fulfilled. So why can't we stop for a while? Success is great, but there's nothing wrong with not succeeding.
What's important is what you've gained on the road of striving, and whether it's made you a little bit different.
Youth is a hasty book. I hope that no matter how you grow up and grow old, you can cherish the undertones of youth.
Well, the farewell of summer is quiet and a new story is about to begin. I hope you write your next chapter well.
If you're deep in the doldrums, I hope these movies bring you a touch of relief, strength, and some new insights.