Recently, the college entrance examination is coming, so I plan to talk to you about a youth film related to the college entrance examination: "Youth Faction". This is a very good youth film with the theme of the college entrance examination.
It seems that this movie has not been very famous for so many years, once everyone talks about youth films, more often they will think of "Young You", "To Youth" or "Hurry That Year", but few people mention this "Youth Faction" that is very thoughtful in terms of plot, theme and performance.
The biggest breakthrough of "Youth Pie" is that it is fresh enough, and all the dog blood youth bridges you can think of are not in this movie. No abortions, no car accidents, no cheating, just a bunch of high school students who don't understand and have a good high school life. Moreover, the high school students in this class are still very special, they are senior repeat students, that is, they smashed the college entrance examination in the third year of high school, so they came back to retake the exam. From the beginning, several of the protagonists in this film have been saddled with the role of losers, and the label of youth's bright and sunny, on them, has to be discounted a little.
The protagonist actually confessed to the favorite girl Huang Jingjing in public at the graduation ceremony, and as a result, he was secretly told to his mother by the class teacher. Before a love began, he was strangled to death in the cradle by his mother, so this former genius student was like a deflated balloon, he could not remember anything in the college entrance examination, only remembered the name of his beloved girl, and he naturally became the only student in the class.
Many youth films are not profound because they fail to consciously describe the sense of loss of youth. Those directors who have already passed the adolescence, it is difficult to understand that young people will inevitably fall, rebel, and fall to the bottom at some point because of all kinds of inexplicable contradictions with teachers, parents, and the world around them. Youth is not always beautiful and romantic, young people who are in adolescence feel more confused at the moment and do not know how long youth can last, and the so-called romantic imagination, but the nostalgia of middle-aged people, is the adolescent hypothesis under subjective obscenity.
But when dealing with this character, Liu Jie focused on this theme. He was actually a good student, or rather, he once thought he was a good student. And now the temporary failure, in his opinion, is all because of the obstruction of teachers and parents, not their own choices. There is a plot in the film that actually went to find Huang Jingjing in the middle of the night, but Huang Jingjing got out of the other boys' cars. The film does not dwell on whether Citrine is really derailed. Instead, to focus on the confusion at this time, this is the normal state of adolescent boys - seeing the girl who is ambiguous with himself and going out with other boys, the first imagination of a high school boy should be flustered and angry, not jealous and calculating.
After getting angry, his second reaction was that he wanted to work hard and turn his grief and anger into strength, and he felt that as long as he could be admitted to Fudan, he would be able to be with Huang Jingjing again. His understanding of love is also a state that a student should have- first think about his own efforts, believing that as long as he works hard, the beloved girl will eventually be with him. Such a mentality may be the true portrayal of the so-called man to death as a teenager.
Another highlight of this film is that the performance of the boys' dormitory is very good. One of the reasons why "To Youth" was widely praised in the same year was because of its realistic reproduction of the university scene, especially the design of the boys' and girls' dormitories, which had a strong sense of nostalgia. However, "Youth Faction" takes a different approach to the scene and plot design of the dormitory, highlighting a "true" word. This dormitory is particularly realistic, and there is almost no excessive nostalgic symbol, that is, to shoot a group of boys fighting and fighting, and to shoot people lying on a simple bed in a daze. The identities of several boys in the dormitory are very different, some are rich second generation, some are poor boys, but it does not hinder their friendship, and class and economic pressures are hidden outside this dormitory.
This design reveals that the film does not try to create a nostalgic atmosphere, but hopes to take the audience to feel the college entrance examination that is happening. The real life of high school students is indeed like this, simple, boring, and full of pressure, it is under such high pressure that a little bit of romance is real, valuable, and enduring.
At the same time, the film does not portray the teacher as a complete villain. Many youth films will portray teachers and parents as the biggest villains, and regard rebelling against teachers and parents as the most concentrated embodiment of youth rebellion. But this is actually a narrative flattering behavior that does not have a villain but insists on setting up a villain, which is equivalent to setting up a fake target to distract the audience's attention. It seems that as long as the protagonists win the battle against the teachers and parents, their youth rebellion will be successful, but is this really the case? The numb, lifeless cultural mechanism represented by teachers and parents should actually be the most rebellious thing for young people. The price of the so-called youth growth is not to defeat teachers and parents, but to find their true values in the confrontation of traditional ideas. Therefore, in "Youth Faction", when Teacher Sa was finally hospitalized in a car accident, the students began to reflect on their misunderstanding of the teacher, and used this as a motivation to review the exam, and finally at another graduation ceremony, the teachers and students also achieved mutual understanding. This is the true embodiment of youth growth,