The 2013 film "To the Youth We Will Eventually Pass Away" became the most high-profile youth film of the year. The success of this film has also preset the tone for many domestic youth films: youth is cruel, sad, confused, painful, torn... Looking around, youth is gloomy, and even if there is a place of light, it is only an accidental wave.
In the next few years, I have developed a certain disgust at the three words "youth film". Hearing these three words, I will reflexively think of many bad films in the name of youth. Maybe the place where I grew up was too closed, and I had never seen the abortion and female classmates tearing each other up in those youth films. However, this does not mean that my student days are calm and waveless. Fights and injuries in schools, fights between classmates have killed people. It's normal to sleep by hiding behind a stack of books and reading novels all day, but there are almost no naughty students in class, which is completely different from the movies. It feels like youth is like a lush wheat field with clouds fluttering after the heavy rain in April, and there is an indescribable calm and depression.
However, this can also be an illusion. In fact, I may not be so depressed, and there are many happy things among my classmates. It's just that the blindly gray and dark side of the "youth film" has given me a strange illusion. My youth may be fake. It wasn't until I saw Yaguchi Shijing's "Swinging Girl" that I found that the so-called mediocre youth may have other joys.
Japanese films have always had a soothing rhythm, and films like "Swing Girl" would definitely be made into an adrenaline-pumping "action movie" like "Burst Drummer" in Hollywood. But it is precisely because of its slow and brisk rhythm that this film, which has almost no excessive dramatic conflict, has become a refreshing "side dish". It does not talk about tearing, no tires, or even talk about the word "girlfriend", some are just simple life fun, although the growth history of the protagonists, it seems to be a bit "child's play", but the innocence and beauty emanating from the middle is enough to conquer the audience.