Text/A Jiu
Lucky people are cured by childhood in their lives, but unfortunate people spend their lives to heal childhood.
Childhood is an important stage in the growth of life for everyone, and in recent years, movies about the growth of children and family education have also emerged.
China has Cao Baoping's "Dog Thirteen", the United States has Stephen Zhuo bosky's "Miracle Boy", Germany has Caroline Linke's "This Boy Must Be Saved", if "Dog Thirteen" is the general growth footprint of Chinese children, the United States' "Miracle Boy" is an American-style parent's way of education, with love to accompany children to grow up, then "This Boy Must Be Saved" is a history of the growth of children themselves.
It's a comedy!
At first glance, when you hear the title, you think it will be a heavy theme to save a child in distress, the struggle between good and evil, but it is not, it is a comedy! No mistake, it's really a comedy!
Adapted from the autobiographical novel by German comedian HarperKolin, the comedy is mainly a tender little story of childhood life between a nine-year-old boy and family and friends.
On Douban, the score of this movie is 7.6, not high, but far above the passing line, this score may be due to different cultural reasons, many of the laughs shown in the plot can not get its laugh points, and there is a point that the pace of the movie is slow, and the plot is too dull.
However, its biggest feature is that it is very dull, it is like a cup of boiled water, and it is tasteless but indispensable.
In the whole movie, we don't see the fierce plot conflict, no heart-rending quarrel, no dog blood misunderstanding and the thrill of reversing and reversing again, just some daily coexistence in life, daily trivia.
It simply shows the real childhood life from the perspective of a child!
The film is presented from the perspective of nine-year-old Hans Peter, telling the story in the first person. It is shot of a nine-year-old who sees and hears the most real things at that age, and it is also his most authentic representation of these observations.
So in the early episodes, we might get a little bored, he's introducing his own family, introducing a whole situation about his own family, he, who has an ordinary but happy family.
His father was a carpenter, and he often went out for work reasons, and his childhood character formation came more from his mother and grandmother, as well as the kind companionship of those around him.
He is very fat, does not look as cute and likable as many children, but the mother's optimistic nature, willing to communicate with the child makes his personality lively and cheerful, and at the same time with a strong and stubborn, lively he is born with the ability to make people laugh and bring happiness, but this skill also makes the audience more distressed for him in the later plot.
He grew up with warmth and happiness, but he grew up earlier than many people because of family changes.
He watched his mother lie beside him, and then completely left him.
As for how traumatic a nine-year-old child should be, as expressed in his narration, his mother walked away without turning around to look at him for the last time.
At a time when many people were still playing in his mother's arms, he lost his mother, and his father became increasingly depressed because of his mother's departure, and he had no heart to take care of him, and at the age of nine, he could only live with his grandparents.
Because it is the first perspective, we can see a lot of hidden emotions, and its performance is not expressed in words, but in actions.
At the beginning of the plot, we thought it was just an optimistic and lively fat boy with no heart and no lungs.
However, from the time his mother was ill to his death, we began to change our minds about him, when his mother was unhappy because of his illness, he deliberately danced to make her happy, his father sat silently and did not disturb his mother when he comforted him, but helped pick vegetables, and when his mother was seriously ill, he could keenly detect that something was wrong, and his father carried him to another door without saying anything.
Looking at the anxious and nervous adult through that door, in fact, he knew everything!
The little actor who plays Hans Peter really has good acting skills.
His performance is naturally sincere, and every look is very capable of entering the play.
If the performance of laughing at others lies in imitation and language, then his illness to his mother, everything in the eyes, his strong patience, understanding and maturity, in the funny performance of laughter is deep and unsentimental feelings, these need to look at the inner drama, these his performances can be said to be perfect, really good to express the emotions, so that the audience can feel empathy.
The flashpoint of the story lies in the plot processing of the hero after encountering family changes and encountering changes, because the family changes are forced to grow, but the plot is not conventional.
Instead of following the ordinary plot path of Hans Peter, the personality becomes depressed and silent due to family changes, but after a short period of sadness, he returns to his usual state and continues to heal others with joy and laughter.
The daily life of getting along is still warm and trivial, full of joy, but it is this kind of early understanding that obviously sees everything in the eyes but is used to hiding with a smile, and hiding all emotions in a smile.
After watching the whole movie, we found that "This Boy Must Be Released" is warm and beautiful.
Even in the face of family changes, he still maintains such warmth and beauty, and the protagonist Hans Peter's small age of forbearance and understanding brings laughter to others, which is painful, but he warms others at the same time.
The "release" in the title is more like an attitude towards life, just like at the end of the movie, hans Peter looks at his childhood self and the people who have given him warmth and the people who have given him warmth and laughter around him, going in the opposite direction, telling himself "I want to be like a clear sky, always awake." ”
As blue as a clear sky, full of sunshine.
Homeschooling films are primarily about the deep intentions of the film rather than the intense sensory stimulation, and the dullness of "This Boy Must Be Saved" is just right to show this.
Avoiding the clichéd plot of the fierce struggle for conflict and conflict, it is more like a lake of water, the surface is plain, but the bottom contains endless energy, to see the big in the small, to see the strange in the ordinary, and the feelings under the plain are enough to swallow people up and challenge your tear glands.
At the same time, it also warms people's hearts after the blandness.
In my personal name, five star recommendation.