There can also be many types of youth films,
For example, the regret and pain of mainland movies, such as the freshness and pure love of Taiwanese movies, and the inspirational blood of Japan, as well as the brave vitality of European and American styles.
However, the classic film that Xiaomei wants to recommend to you today has nothing to do with the above style, it is a cruel youth story of Russia, and it can be called a model of depressiveness -
Lilia Forever
Lilya 4-ever
Lilia Forever is a film directed by Rukas Moodison and starring Ozana Arkinshner, released in Sweden on August 23, 2002.
Lilia, what a lively and beautiful name, sixteen years old, what a vigorous age,
But who could have imagined that it was such a naïve Russian girl,
In fact, it has long been abandoned by this world, and no matter where it flees, it is a forest of despair.
Three months ago, Lilia, a 16-year-old girl living in a dilapidated neighborhood in Moscow, was happily packing her bags.
She told her friend in a high profile that she was about to immigrate to the United States to start a new life.
However, her mother deceived her.
The mother met her new boyfriend while working as a prostitute, and she eloped with her boyfriend, and although the mother promised to take her daughter to Pibang, she actually wrote to the authorities and the government to abandon the mother-daughter relationship with Lilia.
The mother said ruthlessly in the letter: "She has always been a superfluous child. ”
As for Lilia's father, no one knows where he is, life or death, after all, Lilia is only an accident after a night of affair between the man and her mother.
When Lilia desperately couldn't catch up with her mother's drifting car, she fell down in the dirty mud and cried bitterly.
But what's the use? She knew her mother would never come back.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the decay of the country, people's hearts also emitted a foul smell, hoping that this thing would not even dare to think about.
Who would want to stay in a land where no light is visible? The sixteen-year-old girl was thrown into the garbage like a broken doll.
Her mother entrusted her to her aunt Anna, but the cunning aunt took over her house and threw her into a cold and dirty abandoned apartment. When she returned to school, the teachers also sneered at her, causing her to withdraw from school in anger.
As the days passed, Lilia, who had no ability to work and was hungry and cold, still found her aunt for help.
But the woman who occupies the magpie's nest has no concern for Lilia's situation,
Even coldly "suggested" that she learn from her mother and "open her legs" to men.
In order to survive, she actually went to the dance hall with her friends in exchange for her body.
But this first prostitution was not successful, and the friend who successfully helped him planted a bribe on Lilia in order to avoid her father's responsibility.
She became the "stinky bitch" that thousands of people called her, and she was scolded and beaten by hooligans who even ran into her house and raped and destroyed her.
At this point, she had no other way but to live by flesh and skin.
Although she sometimes had to endure perverted needs such as tyranny from her guests, she was happy because she had money, could buy food, and could live.
In the abandoned factory where Lilia stayed overnight, there was a twelve-year-old boy, Voroya, who had a family and a father, but was still tormented by life.
Lilia would buy him basketballs with her own money, and Voloa would always watch over Lilia.
Two poor children meet in disgrace, and thus become the only precious gift in each other's lives.
Day after day, when Lilia had thought she would live like this, Andrei appeared.
After this sweet man gave Lilia a little warmth, he pushed her into the abyss of more suffering like arsenic.
If you live too closed, you will feel that a little bit of good is incredible, "I can even choose to eat one more ice cream!" ”
Looking at Andre's back when he bought ice cream, Lilia's face was full of happiness and warmth.
She said that she understood why her mother left, and she thought that she had touched the world, but in fact, this was only the beginning of the untouchable.
Andre said that she was going to take her to the Swedish life where she worked everywhere, and she gleefully told Voroa and betrayed her friend,
She got a fake passport, but Andre said that her grandmother was sick and had to stay and take care of her for two days, leaving Lilia alone to go to Sweden first.
It turned out that Andre was just a pimp and a human trafficker.
He slept with Lilia in the name of true love, and then sold Lilia to an old Swedish man.
If you had never seen the light, you might have endured the darkness. But when the despair was extreme, I thought I had grasped the straw that saved my life, but I didn't expect it to be the last straw that crushed the camel.
Life in Sweden is conceivable, with Lilia's passport confiscated and confined.
The pimps force Lilia to go out every day to sell spring, beat her badly if she doesn't obey, and threaten her to call the police and be caught.
The dream kingdom with beautiful ideals is exchanged for an oppressive sex slave shell that is more delicate than death,
The ugly faces and ugly bodies of different old men raged and twitched on Lilia's body, making the girl go from helplessness and despair to numbness.
And after Lilia left, Voloa was alone.
He had no means of subsistence and no longer had the motivation to live, so the twelve-year-old boy committed suicide by swallowing medicine.
In the movie, Voroa gives birth to wings and turns into an angel and goes to heaven, and he goes to Sweden to let Lilia escape and live well.
Where can Lilia, who escaped pimping, go in this foreign country?
From the abandonment of the mother, the occupation of the residence, the betrayal of the girlfriend, the abduction of the boyfriend, the suicide of the friend to the collapse of the faith,
All the good things have long since been withdrawn from Lilia's side.
She was afraid, she was desperate, and even Voloa's only warmth seemed powerless and inappropriate.
"Life is short, death is eternal." Since there is nothing to love in life, there is only the embrace of running to the wings of death.
This movie is adapted from a real thing, is a film that reflects the social heat,
The tragedy in the film makes all words pale, and the indifference without mercy is as cold as the Nordic weather in the film. The entire film is shrouded in thick shadows, and not a single scene is sunny.
If there is a person who brings them warmth, the story will be different.
Unfortunately, if not, reality will not give them the opportunity to start over and regret it. Their troubles come from hunger and cold, and their suffering comes from extreme persecution.
They were miserable to the end, and there was no turning point.
The most impressive sentence in the film is: "I have seen too many ugly people, and I decided not to be like them." ”
Lilia maintains an astonishingly beautiful imagination of the world, even if the world does not give her even a moment of "better"; even if her surroundings are full of unreasonable malice,
But she had no revenge, no hatred, only the understanding gained from observation.
Thankfully, it's just a 110-minute heart-wrenching trip.
But it's also sad, because such things can happen in all corners of the world.
True Event Prototype:
Dange. Lascelette was born on 19 May 1983 in Kausna, Lithuania. After his father was sentenced to life in prison, his mother fell in love with an American man and moved to the United States, writing to the authorities that the government had abandoned relations with Dange. At the age of 16, Dange fell in love with a Russian who claimed to be able to find a job gathering berries abroad for Dange, and Dange bid farewell to his grandmother and went abroad. The man, who created a fake passport for him, arrived in Kristianstad on 17 September 1999. Dange was then taken to Alef in Burlev, locked in an apartment and forcibly stripped naked, claiming that her passport was worth 20,000 euros and required her to repay by engaging in sex work. After a few months of prostitution, Dange escaped from the window. But she feared being arrested and repatriated by the police, and even when she met the police, she did not ask the police for help, but instead took a ride and fled to the southern swedish port city of Malmö (the director's hometown). A Macedonian tourist provided her with temporary accommodation. On January 6, 2000, the Macedonian and his friends gang-raped Dange. On January 7, 2000, Dange jumped off a bridge in Malmö. The Swedish police immediately took him to the hospital for emergency treatment. Dange did not wake up during his hospitalization, and on 10 January, the Swedish side announced his death.