Text: Mr. Friday
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Friday's Words: Movies about adolescence and middle and high school life will undoubtedly touch on the themes of rebellion, restlessness, love, confusion, sexual impulse and even depression and crime. And these themes are often suppressed in reality (especially for our youth). It is conceivable how precious such films are in the education, guidance, communication and healing effect of young people.
Most of the 10 recommended films below are Western films, all about adolescence. Of course, you can say that the environments of the East and the West are different, and the education of young people should be treated differently. But people's instincts are all the same, and the menstrual period is also unavoidable. In the face of the current tragic events of young people in our country, their encounters, the mistakes they make, and their inner feelings may give us some enlightenment.
1. The Edge of the Great River (1986)
Formerly known as River's Edge
Country: United States
Director: Tim Hunter
What touched me was not the boy in the play who brutally killed his high school girlfriend, but how he and his group of classmates reacted to the killing! This film is around this point to outline a social network of minors, from family, school, to society...
2. Benny's Tapes (1992)
Formerly known as Benny's Video
Country: Austria
Director: Michael Haneke
"Recommendation" is also a juvenile murder incident, and the director treats it as bland as if he were killing an animal, just like the "indifference" in the process of the perpetrator's killing in the film. What exactly causes this phenomenon, the director shows it through an almost brutal realism approach.
3. "Sunny Days" (1994)
Former name: Sunny Day
Country: China
Director: Jiang Wen
The story of "Recommended Words" takes place in Beijing in the early 1970s, where a group of bear children fight, climb the roof, steal their father's condoms and blow balloons, make bad social youth, fall in love early... In short, parents and teachers will not let them do everything they do! I have to say that although this movie takes place in a special era and special environment, it is enough to resonate with the "adolescence" of several generations!
4. The Elephant (2003)
Former name: Elephant
Director: Gus Van Sant
The director of "Testimonials" used a set of shots from different angles to weave and edit a horrific school shooting. In this way, we were able to observe this campus crime from different angles, thus gaining a new understanding of the modern campus.
5. "High School Classroom" (2008)
Formerly known as Entre les murs
Country: Lauren Guntai
Director: France
What would a high school class look like for a democracy like France, which is highly open-minded and free-speech? What will happen to those bear children under their multiraciality? This movie was an eye-opener after watching it.
6. "Cycling Boy" (2011)
原名:The kid on the bike
Country: Belgium
Director: Jean-Pierre Dané / Luc Dané
"Recommendation" No teenager's loneliness is innate, it is always closely related to the family environment. And what happens when the family environment is gone? In addition, how can adults help these lonely children get out of that strange circle... This "Cycling Boy" tells us such an atypical healing story.
7. "Little Adult" (2016)
Formerly known as Little Men
Director: Ella Sachs
A property migration and dispute brought two children together (to be precise, a play together). However, friendship is no match for legal disputes, and the two eventually parted ways. It is in this context of family changes and entanglements that this film deduces the psychological process of adolescent growth, which is worth pondering after watching.
8. "The Love Song of First Love" (2016)
Formerly known as Sing Street
Country: Ireland
Director: John Carney
For some directors in The British, cross-dressing, forming a rock band, not doing a job, breaking school routines and even running away from home... That's all positive energy, inspirational! This is vividly reflected in this movie! Regardless of right or wrong, the viewer is in full swing, is this all instinctively doing something wrong?
9. "Excitement" (American drama, season 1) (2019)
Original name: Euphoria Season 1
Directed by: Sam Levenson / Augustine Frizier / Jennifer Morrison
"Recommended Words" is a conceptual TV series that truly describes and explains the psychology and life of American teenagers at present, and its scale is large, the visual and auditory avant-garde, and the meticulousness of the psychological drama are enough to make it look ashamed. Therefore, this drama on film, sociality, and artistry are all worthy of our careful study and reference.
10. The Wave (2019)
Formerly known as Waves
Director: Terry Edward Schalz
The "Testimonials" story takes place in the present. Those high school students in the film should be "post-2000s"! However, they still face the problems that all adolescents face – passion, fanaticism, love, alcoholism, impulsivity, confusion... In addition, this is also a film with very avant-garde visual and auditory senses.
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