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The 1998 World Cup has been around for 20 years.
Many of the things that happened in 1998 do you still remember 20 years later?
Like the movie "Breaking the Door", "Summer of West Creek" also tells a story related to football, but football is not the whole story at all. The little boy in the story is named Gu Xiaoyang, who is an only child. Affected by the heat of the World Cup, he loves football, so he wants to join the football team on campus. But his father, who was the director of teaching, was very opposed to this and refused to sign his application, and his mother was too busy singing Yue opera to take care of him. So Grandpa Zheng next door became a good friend of Xiaoyang, and the two often went out together and established a deep friendship. At this point in the film's plot, it begins to be the time for children to expose the ugliness of the adult world. He bumps into his father and the school's teacher Shen (it turned out to be beta in "The Best of Us!"). Jiang Nian Nian! When they met, they also began to slowly discover that the world was no longer the same as they imagined...
This feeling is very much like watching the movie "August", the same summer story, the same change in the eyes of a child, a change in the environment, a change in society. But "August" is more pure in terms of personal emotions, and "Summer in the West River" wants to express more complicated. The former mainly wants to express society through the individual, while the latter is to see adults from the perspective of children.
In fact, the circle of friends in the circle of friends has long been promoting this movie, although it is niche but a lot of praise. Ye Qiuchen likes the idea of this movie, because what needs to grow up is never limited to the group of children, Xiaoyang, Xiaoyang father, and Grandpa Zheng all need to grow in different directions. People of each age group actually see the most likely future self in the elderly of the next age.
For the little boy Xiaoyang, his father may be some kind of possibility in the future, but he must not want to be that possibility now, because he is too young to understand why his father, who is nearly forty, likes a woman other than his mother. Because, he has not yet become a man. And Xiaoyang's father can also see in the body of Grandpa Zheng next door that his future children may leave the small city to develop in the big city, and he is not willing to leave his hometown. At Grandpa Zheng's age, loneliness was almost the whole of life, because his wife died early, and he didn't have any more wild thoughts to find any other women. At that time, Xiaoyang's father would only worry about whether his son was looking for a partner, how his work and life were, whether he had enough to eat and wear warmly, so he would not think about any extra moths and provoke what younger and more beautiful opposite sexes did as spiritual sustenance.
So the best thing about this movie is this idea, three generations of different ideas, but sooner or later they have to go in a complete circle, and before the whole process is taken down, no one knows what their future looks like. What FLAG is the principle of not regressing at all, it is really to the moment when you need to choose, to understand why you want to grow, the price of growth is what you need to lose.
Slowly, the power of this sentence will become clearer and clearer.
Growing up, what is lost is the self that was once there.
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