"Two Little Guesses" ---- Maybe you heard the title last year, that terrible French little love movie. I'm not talking about it. I prefer to call me the original name of the film in my hand,
"Melody" is also the name of the girl in the film. When the pronunciation, the breath collided up and down between the lips, and it was cute like the girl.
cough. In 1971. Really 1971. It's almost a movie of parental adolescence.
But in the hot summer 34 years later, I pulled it out of a pile of dishes in a newly relocated DVD store. The shop was very air-conditioned, but I could see the young man and the little girl in the grass on the cover still felt a little warmth.
I am the kind of guy who looks at the cover without looking at the title of the film, buys it back and looks at it for half a day before seeing the title.
There is very little information about the film on the Internet, limited to the shooting time, the names of the actors, and there are no posters. By the way, the two nepotistic names of "Two Little Guesses" and "Melody" have made me search for a lot of things that are not different, just like the original pure "Hibiscus" was framed.
Soundtrack by Bee Gees. The songs "In The Morning", "First of May", and "Melody" are said to have caused a big sensation at the time. The song itself is good, but the singing sound in less than 5 minutes makes the film more like an MTV than a movie, and the soundtrack is not harmonious. It can be said that this movie made these songs, but these songs could not make this movie.
I privately imagined the background as Keren Ann's "Lady & Bird", which I personally felt was quite a match.
In 1971. In 1971, a beautiful young man, Dany, fell in love with a beautiful little girl, Melody, and got married. They were 10 years old, elementary school.
{Lens 1}
Huge lawn. Chaotic playground. Boys chase fights and kicks balls. After the quarrel, reconcile, and then quarrel after reconciliation. They will always have ways of reconciliation and reasons for quarrels that girls can't figure out.
The girls sat cross-legged on the lawn in groups. A girl smacked her lips and said, I always thought kissing would give birth to a child. Everyone's faces were flushed with excitement or shyness.
{Lens 2}
In the body room, the girls danced in tights. The boy leaned on the door and looked inside. It was at this point that Dany saw Melody --- maroon hair, tied with dark blue ribbons.
Well, that's it.
{Shot 3}
Melody and Dany go to the cemetery to play, and children always like to show their guts and be different.
Two people share a red apple.
Melody said if you like me, don't talk through other people, I don't want to be the last person to know.
Melody asked how long fifty years are?
Dany says the holidays are as long as 150 semesters.
Melody asked if you would love me that long?
Danny said of course, I've been in love with you for a week.
150 semesters, 50 years. That's his only concept. But only such a Dany, at this time Dany dared to promise 50 years of love so sure, because he had been in love for a week.
{Lens 4}
Dany said to Melody next to the dunes of the pile, let's get married. Melody said well, then tie the knot now, and the more you grow up, the more you will get tired of it.
The sand dunes disappeared as soon as they washed away, even though they had been fortified for so long. But Dany and Melody thought it was time for them to get married, and they didn't think it was funny at all. They want to be together, and of course they want to get married.
{Lens 5}
The final wedding took place in a dilapidated house on the side of the train tracks, attended by the whole class. They all said yes, and they got married.
The principal and teacher arrive but flee, the car is blown away by the native explosives that the students themselves have figured out, and Dany and Melody elope in a simple rickshaw. The story is over.
A love story of two 10-year-olds in 1971.
I wanted to say something more but couldn't do it, and these shots were enough.
I remember a sentence: happiness is not happy, heartbreak is not broken, never far away.
I'm picky, and watching movies is even more so. There are a lot of hard wounds in the film itself, the plot is not clean, the camera sense is also very mediocre, etc. I can pick a lot of thorns, but I am not willing to do this.
You could say I'm kidding myself, but it's good to make a movie like this for my kids in 1971 that makes them happy.
Children can't understand those adult jokes, can't think of the troubles, can't think of the bullshit future, so please don't tell them first. Like Melody said, grow up and you understand everything.
I don't like the comments on the Internet about what is absurd, immature, childish, sugar-coated poison and so on. This is meant to be a movie for kids, and they need Peter Pan, the little ideas of Never Island, which are important to them.
Recently, maybe it's been a cycle, always wanting to miss it, fantasize about it, and be brighter.
After that, how long will there be to wait for the time to pass. Maybe you don't like this movie much like me. But he does, and he can remind you of something.