What kills dreams is life.
The recent tide has the illusion that he has changed from a sunny teenager to a vicissitudes uncle, so he deliberately watched a movie full of "youth" flavor
- "The Love Song of First Love"
To be honest, the name of this movie is really earthy, the original name of the movie "Sing Street" means "Sing Street", the Hong Kong translation of the name "Sing Tong Street"
Tidal to briefly introduce the plot, "Sing Street" in addition to the name of the movie, but also the name of the band in the movie. Simply put, it is the story of the second grade teenager + the sister. The hero - Connor. In order to catch up with the goddess, form a band and shoot videos, just to hold the beauty back.
Why do you like the tides, because there is music blessing ah~
This is a film that makes people want to sing when they see it, and the director's musical taste is beyond doubt.
Borrowing the mouth of the hero's brother, he introduced many bands that were unique in the 1980s.
For example, "Duran Duran", a band formed in Birmingham, England in 1978, the handsome appearance of the members and the exquisite trend of MTV at that time made them the darlings of the public and the media, and the album sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide, which can be described as a mixed up in the 80s.
Another example is "The Cure."
While Connor is confused in his ignorant love, Connor's brother throws him an album of The Cure when he explains to Connor that "be happy for your sadness, that's the feeling of love, mixed with joy and sorrow." The works of "The Cure", full of darkness, grief and melancholy, and often expressing the theme of their songs as "sadness", were the most popular alternative rock bands of the eighties and nineties.
Of course, in addition to these bands, the film also mentions famous bands of the 80s such as "Motörhead" and "The Jam".
The director has such excellent taste, naturally the songs of the band in the movie are not bad, each song is full of flavors belonging to that era, and the songs are connected one after another, it seems that even if there is no plot, it does not matter.
For an older youth like Tidal, such a movie is nothing more than a drug, and at an age that has nothing to do with youth, suddenly ignites passion, so that he wants to quit his job, carry a guitar to wander, sing, and fall in love.
And this song is not the most eye-catching part of this movie, what is really memorable is - youth.
It's a movie that makes the whole world brighter after watching it, Connor is not the kind of boy who is born with light, he was beaten in the school cafeteria and his eyes were blackened, and the student's director of instruction pressed his head in the washbasin to wash his face, but he was particularly sharp when he talked to his sister.
So Tidal always believes that love is magical, no matter who you are, your head is filled with a pattern, a chord, or just a paste that has no idea, it doesn't matter, standing under the aimu steps are the same, looking up at each other as if expecting a shooting star, and crossing the mountains and mountains is also not quitting.
When Connor first saw Rafina, he fell in love with her. She stood opposite the school in a posture of no one approaching, a silk scarf wrapped around her slender neck, two golden rings on her earlobes, and an unlit cigarette at the corner of her mouth.
He liked her beauty, and he liked the fact that she was dressed in opposition to his daily life, and she was a suddenly descending alien spaceship, emitting gravitational light waves towards him. He fell in love, so he wrote songs for her, formed a band for her, and Connor loved music, and all he loved was the cold woman named Rafina.
I remember the first time we met
She said she was a "model," a future model, and he was so flustered that he said I had a "band," a fantasy band. This is exactly the fourteen or fifteen-year-old half-mature teenager, because he is young, he can pretend to be a worldly adult, talk about a whimsical tomorrow, and he also has the possibility of achieving everything, which is one of the most wonderful places of youth.
But the happiness Connor wants is very simple, he fantasizes about the American retro party, he wears a dark red suit, combs the retro oil head full of mousse, everyone dances happily, and she, the girl she likes to like, twinkles in the audience, the separated parents gently hug each other, the brother who has regretted for several years regains self-confidence, and the annoying teaching director also comes to play treasure... He was such a lovely and wonderful child. It's just a pity that the song is over, and everything is just a dream of yellow sorghum.
And Rafina is a simple and pure elf, who also happens to be the woman that Tidal likes, she will make makeup for everyone for the first video of the band, and she will jump into the sea to make a perfect music video, but when it comes to dreams, she will give everything. What a brave girl, what a beautiful and moving presence.
How much Tidal envy Connor, to the point of almost jealousy.
Because he is young, because he is brave, this is the charm of youth, a boy who is bullied at school can chase after the goddess of his choice, become the lead singer of the band, and then be fearless. And the Rafina she had in mind, the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, could give everything for her dreams, fresh, warm and brave. Let the withered heart of the tide also begin to beat rhythmically.
What's more, the film has almost no major emotional ups and downs, and there are no unexpected reversals in the plot, surrounding the music, around the dream, telling a pure story.
It tells us that music is love, it's happy, it's sad, it's escape, it's running, it's the train that's driving, it's kissing, it's grunge, it's free, it's peace, it's dream, it's music itself. It is no exaggeration to recreate that era, and everyone is cute.
At the end of the movie, Connor finally runs hand in hand with Rafina to their paradise, they are going to England, they are in love, they are going to pursue their dreams, Rafina's dream is to be a model, and Connor's dream is Rafina.
Before leaving, Connor asked his brother to drive him to the docks.
Brother: "Do you know anyone in England?" ”
Connor "No"
Brother: "Will you take the helm?" ”
Rafina: "No"
..........
Connor: "She has pictures of her, I have demos and videos of my songs"
Brother: Let's go, go get the keys.
Look, what a beautiful youth, what kind of sanity?! Youth should be created, it should be desperate, it should be said to go, it should embrace an uncertain tomorrow.
Love goes after it, if you want to go to get it desperately, it's so good to be young, the sky is high and the sky is thick, the two are alone in their grandfather's boat, all the way to England, the storm invaded them, the rain hit their faces, but the two smiled, laughed so happily.
Of course, the tides can't help but wonder, can the two go to England? What will happen to them, will they be happy? Everything seems to be whitewashing Taiping, which again becomes a story of "happily ever after", which makes Tidal suddenly resent himself.
And in an instant the tides figured it out again.
Tide remembers that the director of the film once said: "So in the distant future, it doesn't matter if you are silent or "with tears", just remember that you were once your own "captain"." ”
When I was a teenager, it didn't matter if the wind and rain were far away, the ending was good or bad, it didn't matter, people or things in the world were originally known to the party, and they lost and gained.