Growing Edge is a comedy film directed by Kelly Flamont Craig and starring Hayley Steinfield, Hayley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, and Woody Harrison.
The Edge of Seventeen is a short but beautiful age that everyone aspires to. The seventeen-year-old of the protagonist Nadine in the story is chaotic. Nadine grew up inferior and conceited, living in the shadow of an excellent brother, intolerant with her brother, no friends, the only good friend she got involved with her brother after she was drunk, she felt betrayed, and fell into a lonely predicament...
At the beginning of the film, Nadine tells her teacher that she is going to commit suicide, that she is going to jump off the bridge to let the big truck crash to death, to be fatal with one blow, not to be an eye-sucking clown who asks for a beam jump... In fact, we know that people who really want to commit suicide will not tell others that she is going to commit suicide. She doesn't want to kill herself, she just wants to get the care of others, to let herself know that in addition to her father, there are people who will care and love her.
When we are teenagers, we are both inferior and conceited, inferior because we feel that we are not worthy of the world, and conceited because we feel that no one in this world understands us. We crave recognition, but we don't want to be too obvious. Just like at breakfast, when you encounter a sticky egg, the more you want to peel it perfectly, the more potholes and upsets you are.
<h1>It's like every friend with low self-esteem expects someone to be nice to you, but the process of anticipation is like waiting in the darkness of the depths of desire, feeling a hellish pain, but you can't say it or clearly describe how bad that feeling is. </h1>
When we have low self-esteem, we are good at deceiving ourselves and instinctively avoid the fact that it has happened. Just when Nadine learns that her good friend is with her brother, she makes excuses for herself, thinking that her friend is subconsciously angry with herself, or thinking that her friend will retaliate against herself when she is depressed and manic like herself...
Nadine agrees to a party with her best friend, and when she discovers that her only good friend has other friends, she pretends to be calm and chats with other people, but she can't blend in with the world around her, as if she were an outsider, like a beam-jumping clown. Finally she called and asked her mother to pick her up.
Good friends are like we can laugh for days because a friend tells a joke, but when we see a friend crying once, we will be sad for several years.
After discovering that a good friend has a new friend, we will also question, be sad, and be sad. Facing graduation season, we bid farewell to the past and greet the future. Friends meet new people, and we meet new friends. But for friends with low self-esteem:
They have a hard time accepting themselves, they hate themselves, like Nadine is drunk and says "How can I be so ridiculous?" Why do you like me? "Inferiority suppresses oneself in this way, hates oneself, and understands why others hate oneself." If overwhelmed by inferiority, it will produce inferiority complex, resulting in neurotic personality, depression, pessimism, depression, and long-term depression can lead to depression.
But fortunately, when Nadine said that she committed suicide, a wise teacher guided her with humorous expressions from her point of view, and when she was manic, scolding him for baldness and not getting angry would slowly ease her emotions, and when she encountered problems and sadness, she would be taken home, let her feel the warmth of home, and encourage her to come out of the darkness.
I still remember a passage where On the way back Nadine's mother comforted Nadine by saying, "When you're down, be calm and at peace, and then say to yourself that everyone in this world is as bad and empty as I am, and they just pretend to be good."
<h1>Maybe sometimes life is just unfair, but you have to learn to overcome it. Because when you have truly experienced pain, you can experience the happiness of life, you can know your true self in suffering, and you can use your whole body strength to embrace the small beauty in real life. </h1>
We're teenagers, sad and cool. You give me a straight punch, and please don't forget to give me a hug.