I don't know when it started,
"Bereavement. "Culture" has become a very popular theme in movies, even film and television works.
For example, AMC's divine drama "Breaking Bad",
It seems to be a chemistry teacher who is not good at communication, has technology, and has knowledge, but no one knows, step by step to the legendary "belly black learning" story;
In fact, the essence is permeated with the helplessness and sadness of human nature.
Family strain, son disability, wife pregnant, son envy has always been the uncle who is a policeman,
The wife even rekindled with a rich old lover, did not get respect, like, praise at school, and suddenly learned the bad news of her terminal cancer;
Only when people reached a time of despair was forced to start a dual life of teaching and legend, and only then did they find their true self.
It seems to be a rebirth after falling into the bottom of the valley,
In fact, it is the exposure of a midlife crisis, the life of a person with a tragic background;
This man is slowly transforming before our eyes,
You hate him, you sympathize with him, you understand him, sometimes you burn for his outbursts, sometimes you feel sorry for his depravity,
The darkness and despair in his heart, no one has ever experienced it
And then "Manchester by the Sea,"
It is a complete loser, a struggle of the unlucky, despair and reconciliation
Including the domestic film "Send Me to Qingyun" starring Yao Chen last year,
It is also the first time that the camera is focused on the sick, unfortunate, elderly single, depressed young women.
In today's utilitarian and fast-paced society,
These "funeral movies" let us find that everyone is struggling to move forward, full of energy,
It turns out that there are so many of our kind in this world that they can understand some of the most empty and lonely thoughts in our hearts.
This year there is another very special American movie: "King Staten Island",
The film also has a personal texture of dialogue with the audience,
It is both sad and humorous, both heavy on taste and small and fresh, both healing and desperate to the bone.
The story is inspired by the real life of the lead actor Pete Davidson,
As a young man in his 20s, he lives with his mother and sister and dreams of opening a tattoo restaurant where customers can get tattoos and eat chicken legs.
However, every day, he did nothing but drink, fool around, and hook up with young plum bamboo horses.
He didn't know where the future was going, he was lonely and helpless, but he couldn't change.
You know, Pete Davidson in '93 is definitely not a dazzling presence in the new generation of young actors in the United States.
There is no elegance, handsomeness, delicacy of sweet tea, nor lucas's delicate, sensitive sense of youth,
It looks bumpy, but it just has the kind of small-town youth temperament that is not literary, does not struggle, does not resist, is ordinary and lazy, and even degenerate.
This is the eighteen-line small town youth muddy, no direction of the temperament ah ~ ~
Tattooed with ugly tattoos, wearing a loose T-shirt sweatshirt, always inexplicably quarreling with my mother and sister,
I spent my days watching TV dramas on the couch with my friends, doing nothing, not having the desire to do anything, knowing that I was consuming time, but powerless to change.
Caught in a state of losing his father and unable to change himself,
While hating themselves, they hate the whole world,
But there is no courage to change themselves, and they cannot accept that the lives of the people around them are getting better and better, and even leave themselves.
Loneliness, secrets, loss, pain, inability to express their love and sorrow, can only be paralyzed by shouting, with the tattoos that they think are cool to pull,
In fact, the heart has long been full of holes ~ ~
The way "King of Staten Island" was created is very casual and everyday,
Sometimes it even leaves us in a trance:
Whether we suddenly strayed into the "world of others", or whether the world of others is as meaningless and absurd as ours
Davidson is a guy who doesn't express emotion.
My sister was leaving her hometown to go to college in a big city, and her mother asked him to send her sister out before leaving in the morning, and as a result, he was still lying on the couch watching cartoons and lazily saying a word
"My TV show isn't over yet!"
But when sending my sister out, my eyes were unwilling and sad, but I couldn't even say a word of "take care of myself", but I said it lightly and extremely restrainedly:
"When I have time, I'll come to see you!"
Qingmei Bamboo Horse, dressed in a low-necked suit, with a humorous and hot boy, came to the hotel where he worked for a date,
Just to make Davidson jealous, I thought Davidson would let the dating boy go away in a huff, but he just came to ask in a step-by-step manner:
"Do you want to bake charred bread or hot soup?"
The girls who came to provoke him were embarrassed by his indifference and wept
Not only that, but he is also a person who is afraid of change.
Knowing that it is not the right choice to watch TV in bed, smoke and fool around with friends, and not face up to his feelings with Qingmei Zhuma, he is powerless to change all this.
So, when my sister graduated from high school and went to college, my mother met a reliable and warm firefighter uncle.
When everyone begins to start his new life, he begins to be confused, uncomfortable, panicked,
He yelled at his mother at home, using some reasons he had come up with to confirm the "scum" of his mother's new date.
When his mother, new boyfriend, and sister are eating in a happy restaurant, he interrupts warmly at an inopportune time:
"Hey, can we go?"
Obviously, he is his closest mother and sister, but he cannot express his feelings, and when they share their joy, they are like an outsider.
Yelling and yelling looks like a vent, but it is actually a protective color that is out of control of the fragility of one's own heart,
And silence can not express and untimely interruptions, as if the emotional intelligence is low, in fact, it is just a delicate and soft inner emotion, and I do not know how to share it with the people around me.
Davidson was a stupid guy with bad luck and wanted to go to the tattoo shop as an apprentice, but was repelled by the cruel words of the store manager:
"A lot of people want this apprenticeship job, I looked at your tattoo work, there is no professional basis, you came here to disinfect my needles, wash our cars, take out the garbage, be a waiter, I see you are not suitable." 」
A waste wood that has never entered the society is instantly repelled by the current situation of society;
He and his brothers went to rob a pharmacy, and they could not do a simple job as a guard, and as a result, one brother was shot and the rest of the brothers were rushed to prison.
Also because of his recklessness and excessive speech, he was swept out of the house by his mother;
When I went to visit my brother, I would not greet and comfort, and the opening was: "Can I stay in your house for a few days?" ”
The old love affair with The Green Plum Bamboo Horse is rekindled, and the result is revealed, "Maybe I can stay at your house for a few months?" ”
The girlfriend who originally thought it was love exploded in an instant, and it turned out that you came to me just because I was homeless.
"You know what? Everyone is normal, but after they come into contact with you, you can mess up everyone's life with your abnormality. ”
Bad luck, being beaten by society, and not being able to express one's emotions, is it like every mournful contemporary youth?
When depressance is no longer a dramatic act, but just a daily routine; "The King of Staten Island" reveals an approachable intimacy and empathy:
Funny natural, vulgar and not low-level~
When we no longer focus on those moments of confusion, despair, negative energy, darkness, and panic, then the moments of healing, reconciliation, and enlightenment will always come unexpectedly.
After all, whose youth doesn't have anxiety?
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