This is probably the longest movie I've ever seen, "The Juvenile Murder on Muling Street", a four-hour movie that finally saw the Blu-ray HD version, which is Yang Dechang's best movie and the most perfect movie I have ever seen, impeccable.
The whole movie is huge and delicate, and impatient people will look lengthy, but fortunately, the plot is huge and rich enough.
The streets of Taipei in the 1960s were quite like the mainland in the 70s and 80s, the people in the movie were dressed very fashionably, looking at the beginning a little sour, and now watching Taiwan's infrastructure more like the mainland's 2000-year street scene, can't help but sigh that time flies.
Going back to the movie, the film feels very stuffy, and the environment of the story at the beginning is breathless, because the history is dull enough.
At that time, the Kuomintang brought a group of people to Taiwan, who lived in a small town called Jucun Village, where the children became the protagonists of the story, and the story was based on the real case, the juvenile murder on Muling Street.
The protagonist, XiaoSi, is studying at Jianguo Middle School, and he initially stayed out of the matter for the behavior of his classmates, he is a good child as others say, his father is a public official, his mother is a primary school teacher, and XiaoSi is born in a family of intellectuals.
The actor who plays The Little Four is Zhang Zhen, who never thought that Zhang Zhen still has such a childish moment, because he is the fourth oldest in the family, so he is called Little Four, there are five children in the family, all of which are considered safe, and the father of little four is also an upright person, normally speaking, Little Four will not take a detour, but for various reasons, this teenager gradually changes.
Little Four is an honest child, classmates slipped his head to copy his test paper, but Little Four and Slip head were punished together, when the father found the school, in the Academic Affairs Office and the teacher theorized, he thought it was unfair to do so, very rigid father and teacher tore their faces.
A small thing, but because XiaoSi's father offended the teacher, XiaoSi was remembered greatly, but his father did not mind, because he believed that justice and principles should be upheld.
This incident had a great impact on Xiao Si, so that Xiao Si did everything with rigidity in the future, which is the justice and persistence in the heart of the teenager, which is an ideal.
Little Four got to know Pony and Honey, of which Honey is my favorite character, he is the boss of the gang, a handsome teenager in a sailor suit, he has a great influence on Little Four, because Honey is also a provincial person and can integrate into the local to become the boss, he and Little Four tell a lot of stories about "War and Peace", it can be said that Honey is the idol of Little Four.
Honey represents a kind of romanticism, with passion and ideals, principles and justice, so honey can be the boss, cruel is honeyy was pushed under the car by the sworn enemy Shandong to die tragically.
Honey said: I am only afraid of two kinds of people, one is not fatal, the other is faceless, which one are you? I don't think you don't want to die.
Honey's death made Xiao Si's spiritual world almost collapse, the people he admired, what was the truth he insisted on?
At this time, his father was politically persecuted, the white terror under the Taiwan Restoration Incident of that year, the father was in a precarious situation, everything had to be careful, when XiaoSi was called a parent again, his father's attitude became a grievance and seeking perfection, XiaoSi's heart was completely unacceptable, and the image of his father, whom he once admired, also collapsed, and he angrily smashed the light bulb with a baseball bat.
In the process of growing up in the next generation, it is found that their parents are living in the unknown and fear of the future, and teenagers often organize gangs to strengthen their young and weak will to survive...
Xiao Si began to fight in school violence from a young age, and in order to comfort his restless heart, he began to pursue Xiaoming, who was once Honey's girlfriend.
Xiaoming lives with her mother because of family reasons, her mother works everywhere to make a living, this insecurity makes Xiaoming mature prematurely, she relies on one man after another, her purpose is simple just to live easier, with the help of men to resist the insecurity at the bottom of society.
So in the end, Xiaoming chose to fall in love with Xiao Si's friend Xiao Ma, and Xiao Ming rejected Xiao Si again and again, and Xiao Si seemed to be difficult to understand, or could not see the truth at all.
When Xiao Si knew that Xiaoming had changed boyfriends on the channel, he felt that Xiaoming was inferior, this kind of behavior made people look down upon, and his behavior of stopping Xiaoming was ridiculed by Xiaoming.
“...... It turns out that you, like them, are good to me and want to change me. You're so ridiculous, who do you think you are? I'm as immutable as the world..."
In The fourth place on Muling Street, Xiao Si stabbed the sharp knife into Xiao Ming's body, and Xiao Ming died...
This is the collapse of a teenager's faith, at the beginning they pursue their own spiritual world, and this world is not what they imagined, they can not integrate into this land, even their elders have to fly and hide dogs to live a humble life, their flesh and blood are just suppressing and struggling, but they still can't bear the collapse of faith.
So they use violence to solve all problems, use violence to save this world of crumbling beliefs, save their ideals, and the real world is cruel, and anger alone cannot change the facts, so youth suddenly stops.
And Xiao Si continued his father's persistence, Xiao Si's father was dying in the interrogation room, without dignity but still insisting on faith, because he did not make mistakes, so there was no need to admit mistakes, this is his life creed, this is his pure heart.
In the end, Xiao Si also begged Xiaoming to change, he firmly believed that he was right, it seems that he still knows very little about the world, he is so idealistic.
"The Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street" eventually became a tragedy, which is the brand of the times, the tragedy of reality, the rebellion of idealism, and the injustice of the real world, either die like honey, or accept change like Xiaoming, or revolt like Xiaosi angry, and everyone is destined to become a victim of the times.
"The Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street" alludes to a tragic era in Taiwan through the story, which is a repressive history and people's pursuit of absolute ideals, but how far away are poetry and far away from us?