When it comes to good-looking American youth movies, they can be roughly divided into two types.
One is the protagonist with super high appearance, they are the heroes of the campus, living a youthful life of flying, daring to love and dare to hate, and in the process to find true love or self.
For example, "Summer of Jeans", "Football Specialty" or "Mean Girl", which is full of youthful girlish atmosphere, etc.
"Mean Girl"
The other type is that there are ordinary protagonists like you and me, and something big or small happens to them, relying on delicacy and reality to touch people's hearts.
Although this kind of film is not very profound, and the protagonists are far from perfect, they can always conquer the audience with small details that make people feel warm.
For example, "Miss Bird", which shakes the air, "Juno", a rebellious girl who loves early and gets pregnant early, and so on.
The only thing that falls short is some similar themes that cannot be avoided at all.
After all, youth in reality will always have a certain degree of similarity.
But in the movie that Xiaobian wants to give you today, although the plot still can't avoid those categories, its coolest place is zero dog blood, which eliminates the tears and urine points of other youth films.
Me and Earl and the girl who was going to die
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Douban score: 8.2
The male protagonist, Greg, is an ordinary boy who is very ordinary.
In his view, high school is a small world of its own, and in order to keep a low profile, he has mastered the "language and customs" of each country in this small world.
For example, nods between athletes, boxing rituals unique to addicts, nerdy conventions and playful remarks, and so on.
Greg seems to be in harmony with everyone, but doesn't actually belong to any of these circles.
The only person who can be called a dead party is the black little Brother Earl, who grew up with the male protagonist.
Uncomfortable with intimacy, Greg simply refers to the black guy as his "partner" rather than a "friend."
They have known each other for many years and have been hanging out together since childhood.
They share a love of classic films and have made more than 40 short films together.
They'll choose a movie they like, change it to a stupid title, for example, change "Citizen Kane" to "Old Han Kane", "Eye Wide" to "Big Open Fart", and then adapt the content of the movie based on the stupid title.
Although this creative routine often only produces bad films, they still try to make this process interesting.
The next step is a tribute to the classic movie, how many can you see?
"Dinner with Giant Andre" – from "Andre's Dinner"
"Less Inhalation" – from "Out of Breath"
"Venice Mystery C C Joker Murder" - from "Venice Doubt"
"Dung Digger" – from Voyeurism
The Howling Burden – from The Burden of Dreams
"Violent Alley" - from "Poor Streets and Dark Alleys"
Originally, these films were simply the product of their own personal, self-amusement, until a girl became a loyal audience.
The girl's name was Rachel, a school classmate whom the male protagonist had never intersected, and had just been diagnosed with leukemia.
Out of compassion, the mother forces her son Greg to make friends with Rachel.
It is often said that a twisted melon is not sweet.
But Greg and Rachel almost saw each other, and after a few shallow conversations, they found each other interesting.
"I just consulted with the doctor and he said you need a special medicine called Greg."
To be honest, seeing the editor here was originally a little disappointed.
The story of the shadow teenager and the terminally ill girl, the typical adolescent love terminal illness theme, seems to have some shadow of "The Fault in the Star Luck".
Waiting for the hero and heroine to fall in love, the movie suddenly turned the wind.
"It's not a romantic love story, we're just ordinary friends."
As their friendship steadily developed, Rachel's condition deteriorated, and the male protagonist decided to shoot a special film for her.
For Rachel, the male protagonist seems to be a ubiquitous pistachio, which makes her fall into a miserable life with countless more joys.
At the same time, Rachel's influence on the male protagonist is also huge.
She half-jokingly and half-seriously forced the male protagonist to enroll in college, and taught the male protagonist how to accept feelings and accept love.
In the end, the male protagonist wore a straight suit on the night of the graduation ball and took the filmed short film to the hospital to play for Rachel.
Rachel was already in a terrible state at the time, and the film cast on the wall made the pale ward colorful, like a life ending.
Rachel's eyes widened, her breathing gradually thickened, tears rolling in her eyes, and the man called a doctor.
I saw that the people around her were busy, and she just wanted to use her last strength to watch this movie that was only about her.
Then, he passed away.
In the movie, the teacher of the male and female protagonists once said such a sentence:
"Even if a person is dead, we can still continue to know him in the days to come."
Until the end, the male protagonist and the audience know that this girl is so cute, so skillful, and so pure and kind to love the world.
The film seems to be a story of saving others, but the protagonist is saved by the girl in the process.
There is no conventional love, no elevation and sublimation, everything should be like this.