Introduction: The movie "Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street" is adapted from a real person, and the story is based on the first juvenile homicide case after the Kuomintang authorities moved to Taiwan. The film tells the story of Xiao Si (Zhang Zhen, whose big name is also called Zhang Zhen) after getting to know Xiao Ming (Yang Jingyi), the circle of life and communication slowly underwent major changes, and later lost self-control under the pressure of multiple contradictions in friendship, love and family, and embarked on the road of murder. The film has won several awards from domestic and foreign film festivals, including the Golden Horse Awards and the Tokyo International Film Festival.
The film language of "Juvenile Murder on Muling Street" is very rich and cleverly used, and the mother title is one of them. A film motif is a technique, object, or thematic idea that appears systematically in a film, but is not easily noticed. Its symbolic meaning is invisible and inseparable from context.
The flashlight that appears frequently in "Juvenile Murder On Muling Street" is one of the motifs of the film. Through the interpretation of the symbolic meaning of the movie motif of the flashlight, we can more deeply understand how the young primary four embarked on the road of crime step by step.
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The entrance to Jianguo Middle School, where Primary Four is studying, is an indoor filming set. Little Four often goes to the set alone or with a partner to play, hiding in a high place to peek at the actresses changing clothes or something.
Once accidentally caught by people on the set, Wang Mao, a good friend and classmate of "Little Elvis" (the following names are the names of the characters in the film), did not run away alone but folded back to "rescue" Xiao Si, and Xiao Si left with the flashlight on the set.
At this time, the fourth grade was still a well-behaved student, although he had just reached the second year of junior high school, his family had long been looking forward to his admission to a good university. There are two small groups around Xiao Si, "Little Park" and "217 (pronounced two turns)", and Xiao Si is not involved in any of them. Playing on the set is one of the few extracurricular entertainment for Primary Four.
After Xiao Si got the flashlight, he got to know Xiao Ming and began to contact the small group gang outside the school.
The appearance of flashlights heralds the outward expansion of the small four-motion circle. The flashlight is like a light source in the unknown world, leading Xiaosi to explore to discover new things, which is the role of the flashlight in the early stage of Xiaosi.
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Xiao Si often put the flashlight in his bag or pinned it around his waist, except for Wang Mao who borrowed it a few times, the rest of the time the flashlight was around Xiao Si.
Xiao Si stepped into a new circle of activities with a flashlight and stepped into the "New World". Little Four found that there are many unlucky people in this "new world" and many unfair things. The flashlight accompanied Xiaosi through these experiences and witnessed the major changes in Xiaosi's life and psychology.
First, the slippery head cannot escape this day
Slippery head is a small park person, and Little Four is a classmate. Slip head said that Xiao Si had talked about his dating girls in the national school, and in a class test, he found a stubble, and he wanted to copy Xiao Si's test paper. The slippery head failed to do so, and after the exam, he pushed Xiao Si a bit, and Xiao Si's face was scratched. Originally, Xiao Si was going to resist on the spot, because the teacher of the Training Office saw it, and Xiao Si stopped moving.
After returning home, XiaoSi wrote the words "Slippery head can't escape this day" by the light of a flashlight in his sleeping place.
The place where the little four sleep is cabinet-style, two floors up and down, and the second brother sleeps on the top, with a sliding door. This place is narrow and oppressive, and the light is insufficient when the door is closed, and the little four need to use the light of the flashlight. For a long time to come, Little Four needed this light.
Second, Hani was not killed by you
Hani is Bob's boyfriend and the boss of "Little Park". Hani had previously killed the former boss of "217" Hongmao and fled to Tainan for a period of time, and soon after returning to Taipei, he was pushed down under the moving car by the current boss of "217" Shandong and died.
On a typhoon day, Xiao Si followed the "Little Park" crowd to find revenge on the "217" people, and Shandong was cut down. Xiao Si was not directly involved in the slashing, he was called to guard the back door. Afterwards, Xiao Si found the dying Shandong and asked If Shandong was the Hani he killed.
At this time, Xiao Si was holding a flashlight in one hand and a short knife in the other. This foreshadowed the power to compete with the flashlight - the short knife began to work on Xiao Si.
The 3 bright spots with strong light in the lower part of the picture are from top to bottom: flashlight, short knife, and kitchen knife held by Shandong
The reason why Xiao Si is upset with Hani is because he is very similar to Hani, and he regards Hani as an idol. At the same time, Xiao Si likes Xiao Ming, and he wants to replace Hani's position in Xiao Ming's heart.
Third, you will be looked down upon by others like this
Because of the environment and identity, Xiaoming is extremely insecure, so Xiaoming constantly changes his reliable account, that is, for a period of time, who has more "strength" Xiaoming will follow. This "strength faction" is "talented people from the Jiangshan generation", so Xiaoming is also constantly changing people and heels.
After Xiao Si and Xiao Ming got along, Xiao Si learned about these things about Xiao Ming, and Xiao Si did not want others to look down on Xiao Ming, so Xiao Si wanted to change Xiao Ming.
In the process, Bob talks about her story, her story with Hani, flashlight and Little Four are witnesses.
In the end, Xiao Si found that he could not change Xiao Ming, and Xiao Ming got along with his good friend Xiao Ma. Not only that, but another important female character in the film, Xiao Cui, Xiao Si, can't change it.
In addition, there have been major changes in the family, and my father has been politically censored and his job in the public sector cannot be saved. The most obvious contrast is the two times when the parent father treats The primary four's very different attitude is the most obvious contrast. Unlucky people and things have penetrated into every corner of Little Four's life.
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Unconsciously, all the bad things in the "New World" corroded and destroyed Xiao Si's inner world. And all this was discovered by the flashlight with Xiao Si.
In the later stage, the flashlight symbolizes the only weak light in Xiao Si's heart. As everyone knows, the replacement of flashlights, short knives, has long appeared. In the end, the short knife would kill the only glimmer in Xiao Si's heart.
During the questioning of Shandong, Xiao Si appeared with a flashlight and a short knife. In fact, the short knife appeared very early. Ironically, Wang Mao is the short knife found with Xiao Si's flashlight. This plot setting is symbolic, indicating that the two forces of light and darkness will fight in XiaoSi's heart, depending on which side wins in the end.
It's just a pity that this beam of light is still too weak, and it can't illuminate this terrible dark world that Xiao Si saw. Walking in such a world, the light of a flashlight is really insignificant, it can't illuminate the road ahead, and The little four are lost.
Xiao Si discarded the flashlight on the set, and the flashlight returned to its original place, but Xiao Si could not return to the original point.
Xiao Si went to Wang Mao's house and took the short knife to find Xiao Ma. Little Four had already moved his killing heart. Unexpectedly, Xiao Si did not block the pony, but met Xiao Ming.
At this time, Xiaoming became the only light and only hope in Xiao Si's heart. Xiao Si can't change this world, but he hopes to change the root of his step into this world, that is, Xiao Ming. Almost all of the changes that Xiao Si encountered were because of getting to know Xiao Ming and liking Xiao Ming. If the source is changed, then the world should be as good as ever.
Reality has torn off Xiao Si's last life-saving straw, and Xiao Ming scoffs at Xiao Si's desire to change her mind.
Xiaoming said to Xiao Si, "You mean to help me change me, don't you?" How do you look like everyone else, I misread you... I'm just like this world, this world is not going to change..."
After Hearing this passage, Xiao Si's inner world completely collapsed, and since he couldn't change this source, let's destroy it and end it all completely. Xiao Si took the short knife in his hand and stabbed at Xiao Ming, who he liked.
At the end of the story, Bob is killed. Xiao Si was imprisoned and sentenced to death in the first trial, but because this was the first juvenile homicide case after the Kuomintang government moved to Taiwan, the sentence was changed to 15 years in prison after disputes and objections from all walks of life.
brief summary.
The movie "The Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street" lasts nearly 4 hours, I have seen it 3 times, and after each time I watched it, I had the feeling that the world was collapsing.
According to the film work itself, "The Juvenile Murder Incident on Muling Street" is highly completed, there are many details in the whole film, and the film techniques are skillfully used. The flashlight is only a kind of motif, and there is a more prominent one in the motif film of the object class - the radio.
The work directed by Yang Dechang is a boiled frog in warm water, and the whole film is not overly processed. He has enough patience to lay the groundwork for the plot, to render this oppressive atmosphere to the extreme, and to prepare a blow that catches people off guard and strikes the heart.