Although we can't decide where we come from, we can decide what kind of person we will become in the future.
- "The Wallflower Boy"
Today's recommended European and American movie "Wallflower Boy" is adapted from the famous novel, which tells the doubts and explorations of teenagers about friendship, love, loneliness and sex.
"Wallflower" refers to a person who has no dance partner at the dance party and can only lean over to watch others dance. The wall flower boy always blends into the background wall like this, no one cares, quiet and deep.
The male protagonist, Charlie, is the "wall flower", he is not proud, cowering, introverted to the point of autism.
This stems from the sudden car accident of his favorite elder, Aunt Helen, who had an accident on her way to get him a Christmas present, which left an indelible shadow on Charlie.
Charlie
Charlie even has a mild mental illness, life is not glorious, his only and best friend committed suicide, and Charlie, who has severe social phobia, enters high school.
He can do it a day without saying a word, and when the teacher asks questions, even if he knows the answer, he would rather write it down than say it.
Charlie shrinks into his own world, afraid of being the focus of other people's eyes, and people with the same personality traits must be very resonant.
But he is actually a kind and connotative boy, and he will put down cowardice in anger because his sister's boyfriend has done something to his sister;
In the dead of night, he will write letters to his imaginary friends and pour out the bitterness in his heart;
They will pretend that their condition has not worsened because they are afraid that their parents will worry.
Charlie and sister
As a student, I wasn't as carefree as others said, and everyone rushed to fit in and avoid isolation.
But if you integrate into the crowd, you will lose yourself, of course, there are exceptions.
Luckily, Charlie accidentally makes two upperclassmen friends through talking, the confident and funny boy Patrick and the beautiful girl Sam.
Patrick
Sam
Patrick and Sam are siblings of the restructured family, both of whom have "weirdness", but they are both as kind and funny as Charlie.
Patrick was endlessly nicknamed "Don't Bark" for imitating the teacher in class, but Charlie knew that he just wanted to make fun of everyone, but he was teased by everyone;
And Sam's kindness and generosity also make Charlie fall in love with her, not caring about her bad reputation at all, "because I also have a past that I don't want people to know." ”。
The siblings pulled Charlie into their small group, and he had more friends. There, he was considered "observant and empathetic", a sense of belonging was such an indispensable thing, and Charlie's condition improved with mood.
With the help of these friends, he stepped out of the "background wall" and played, read, and wrote with great interest, preparing for becoming a writer.
As time goes on, their friendship grows deeper, and Charlie discovers that Sam was violated by her father's friends as a child, which is why he once didn't cherish himself so much;
Patrick turned out to be gay, but that didn't stop him from being human. In order to hide his unsightly feelings for his lover, he endured a lot of pain, even more firmly loyal than those so-called "pure" feelings.
Charlie accepted all these situations of his friends, he knew how to understand others from the perspective of others, and he also learned to manage friendship and love.
Sam's grades were terrible, and Charlie tutored her with her homework, which was an important node in Sam's transformation - the moment the acceptance letter came down, Sam had self-confidence and a bright future.
When Patrick's relationship with his lover is discovered, and their love is in jeopardy and hurts each other, it is Charlie who steps forward and beats up Patrick's bully.
Charlie's addition brought joy, and his jerkiness in love hurt a friend. Without distinguishing between right and wrong, when we are young, it is easy to hurt each other due to emotional immaturity.
When adults watch this movie, they have to abandon their prejudices; while young people watch it, it resonates everywhere.
Charlie loves Sam affectionately, tenderly, and humbly, and eventually develops into a relationship with Sam that is more than friends and lovers, and at this stall, the brothers and sisters are promoted to college, and Charlie feels sad like never before.
His mental illness worsened, and hallucinations and memories of his childhood emerged, but he discovered that the real cause of his mental disorder was not his aunt's death, but his aunt's obscenity to him as a child:
Her Christmas present was not an ordinary heart, but a seal for Charlie, and her admiration and disgust for her aunt stimulated Charlie when she was a child and induced mental illness.
In the end, after receiving treatment, Charlie reunites with two friends as they drive through the tunnel, throwing their bright hopes to the glittering future.
This is the style of young people.
The whole film is young people's thinking about the external environment and the confusion of the road of life. They have a lot of imperfections, but through hard work, they have gained unlimited hope and hope.