Irish films are not yet blockbusters, and small productions and gray Dublin backgrounds can also be filmed with a taste of the dead. Remember that year at the Oscars Glenn. Hanseid and Marcotta. Ilglova's soulful and fresh "If you want me"? The movie "Once" is not a masterpiece, Irish director John F. Kennedy. After "Begin again", Carney finally launched a personal music movie trilogy of "Sing Street" and "Sing Street", the music is as wonderful, the story is as simple and touching, but this time the music and dreams are bright.
In Dublin, too, 14-year-old boy Connor's parents were on the verge of divorce, bullied at school, and discriminated against by the director of education because he had no money to buy black leather shoes. Because of the feeling of ignorance of the beautiful girl Rafina who is higher than herself, Connor and his classmate Yi Meng organized a band called "SingIng Street". Writing the imagination of Rafina into the lyrics, the song always impresses Rafina, who also becomes the heroine of their music videos. Rafina is bent on going to London to fulfill her dream of modeling, and she and her bastard boyfriend also had a bad London experience, and after gaining hope at school, Connor takes Rafina to embark on a dream trip to London in the night in a dinghy.
It's a parable about dreams. Connor is surrounded by "losers." The father went bankrupt and the mother cheated. The students at school are useless except confused and troublemakers. Rafina is alone, her emotional life chaotic and unrealistic modeling dreams. The whole of Dublin is dead, and the artist either flees or stays behind and dies in his dreams. The "Sing Street" band puts Connor and his friends on track, black classmates find their specialty, small humble classmates become band managers, and Rafina gets pleasure through music in boredom. For an alienated and hopeless society, music is too important. And the most important thing is that Connor, who has no advantage in the love competition, gains confidence and hope through creation, and finds sunshine in a hopeless and repressed life.
Everyone has dreams, but it is precisely the dreams that make most people shattered. The middle-class life of her parents is shattered, her brother Brandon's musical dreams are shattered, Rafina's model dreams are shattered, and Dublin's urban dreams are shattered. And Connor pinned on John Carney's hopes for a better life, this child has a dream, sends love music when he does not know how to achieve it, and step by step actually took a different path. Here John Carney is once again innocently cute, once again expressing the idea that hopeless and imaginary love is best for music. Isn't it? The boy's unrequited love for a married girl in "Once Upon a Time" has evolved into a song that penetrates the soul, and most of the original songs of "Sing Street" are from Connor's unrequited love for Rafina. It can be seen that for an artist, the loss of love is not necessarily a bad thing.
In fact, there is a hidden protagonist with the same weight as Connor - Brandon, Connor's brother. This young man used to play the guitar very well, was a "super good aircraft engine", had a good future, but now lives lifelessly. He is a mentor to Connor's music creation and gives Connor professional support in music. At the end, when Connor was on a whim to go to London with Rafina, it was Brandon who drove them to the docks at night, watching his brother go forward and fearless for his dreams, brandon was relieved, because his dreams were resurrected in his brother. John Carney should have a vision, dreams everyone has, why don't you realize it yourself? And some people think more than they do, and they can't even take the first step.
At the end of the film, Connor and Rafina drive a dinghy to London in the fog, they are attacked by a big wave, Rafina has a look of panic, and Connor looks excited, they almost crashed into the big ship in the sea, but adjusted the direction in time to follow behind the big ship, John Carney is as optimistic as ever, there are dreams and aggressive, hard-working children, who said that they can't control the course of life?
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