Director Cao Baoping is characterized by being good at capturing the struggles and twisted mental processes of small characters in the complex story background.
"Li Mi's Conjecture", "The Burning Heart of the Sun", "The Pursuer" are like this.
2013's "Dog Thirteen", dusty for five years, finally appeared in the sky.
Domestic youth themes have flowed into various types of films in recent years, but when it comes to classic youth films, I only think of the sunshine of that year is very dazzling, Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days", the quality of other youth films is uneven, basically always a breath to hit the audience key.
The arrival of "Dog Thirteen", which was not screened before it was screened, was praised by everyone as the best domestic youth film in the past decade.
Why!
Because "Dog Thirteen" gives every domestic audience a mirror of youth, from this mirror we find our own growth shadow.
"When you grow up, you should understand things."
"Dad beat you because he loved you."
The lines in these films are not very familiar, and whether they are words that everyone often hears when they are young.
These seemingly deep parental words of love hold up the seemingly ordinary but cruel youth transformation of the heroine of "Dog Thirteen", Li Play.
Originally, "Dog Thirteen" was called "Dog 13", the intention has been very obvious, in addition to the meaning of Li playing 13 years old, 13 is like the English letter B, and the swearing irony is hidden.
The story begins with a 13-year-old divorced girl Li Play, she mainly lives with her grandparents, this kind of family structure where children live with the elderly, I guess the proportion in China, not more than half of it is also 40%.
Originally, there was a generation gap between the child and the parents during adolescence, and between the child and the elderly, the context of not being on the same channel was more serious, and there was such a situation between Li Play and her grandparents.
Li Play's half-brother was born, and Li Play has been in the dark, continuing her busy studies and monotonous life.
When Li played with pimples on her head, it implied that her rebellious period was coming, but "rebellious period" is not a word created in the eyes of adults, I searched for the annotation of "rebellious period":
The rebellious period refers to the psychological transition period in which adolescents are in a psychological transition period, with an increasing sense of independence and self-awareness, and are eager to get rid of the guardianship of adults (especially parents).
It is precisely because they feel or fear that the outside world has neglected their independent existence that rebellious psychology arises, thus using various means and methods to establish the equal status of the "self" with the outside world.
Although rebellious psychology is not an unhealthy psychology, it is an abnormal psychology when it reacts strongly.
Do you see that the official explanation of the rebellious period is an abnormal psychology, that is, anti-conventional, anti-secular rules designated by adults, and sophistication.
"Dog Thirteen" is from this as an entry point, allowing the audience to explore how children in adolescence, how to learn to accept the sophistication of society, worldly routines, and adults' conformism.
In the film, Li played the "youth rebellion" and became the various conflict points of the film.
For example, when Li Play was hesitant to choose a physics or astronomy interest class, he was forced by his father and teacher to choose English.
The conflict at the beginning of this light, in reality, we who have grown up, have the same experience, so that now we ask ourselves what our hobbies are, what kind of people we want to be when we grow up, these simple and complex questions may have been stifled in the cradle when our parents chose hobbies for us when we were young.
Choosing an interest class is just an appetizer for the film, and in order to find a good time to tell Li Play that he has a younger brother, his father first bought a dog to please her, but no one knew that Li Play was not interested in dogs.
When Li played with the dog, after Grandpa lost the dog, the adults asked Li to play "can afford to put it down" in their way and forget about the dog.
When the adults saw Li playing day and night thinking, they then used the method of thinking that it was right, pointing out that the deer bought a new dog for Li Play for the horse, and forced Li Play to admit that it was a lost dog.
At this point, Li Play left home and did not return, causing her grandmother to find her lost and disappearing, so that Li Play's father finally broke out, and a domestic violence began to be staged.
At this point in the development of the film, director Cao Baoping is actually the smartest place, not in criticizing and accusing any party, but in the calm statement, which is what I think "Dog Thirteen" is the most brilliant.
Li playing in the film,In the eyes of our adults, it seems to be exactly what the film says about "not understanding things", when watching the film, frankly speaking of parents, I saw the words and deeds of Li Play after the dog was lost, and I really did not agree.
But as an audience member, I can see from the extension of the film that Li Play's growth, a kind and upright adolescent girl, how sad it is to be forced by adults to accept the Chinese"coming-of-age ceremony" a little bit.
Therefore, the film is a good allusion to the problem of chickens and eggs, that is, "whether it is the adult education method that causes the child's rebellion, or the child's rebellion that makes the adult have to use a rude education method."
With the development of the plot, the film comes to the most conflicting domestic violence link, obviously this must not be advocated, it must be eliminated, and beating people must be wrong!
However, I can't help but ask, why did "Dog Thirteen" make this segment, and the purpose of filming it was to condemn this wise father?!
The answer, of course, is not so simple, after Li played with his father's domestic violence, he became guilty, ashamed, and apologized to Li Play, saying: "Dad beat you because he loved you." ”
How many small partners have not been beaten by their parents' fat, and how many small partners, after being beaten by their parents, can still make their parents apologize to you?!
The film uses apologetic and gentle fighting to pull the moral balance of parents' deep hatred for their children, and there is even a sentence about how to say: "Obedient children are beaten." ”
Adults always "educate" their children in the way they feel is right, and when they see the scene of domestic violence, I can't help but think of Yang Yongxin of the "Internet Addiction Treatment Center" that was mentioned some time ago.
Parents who held up their beloved children sent their children to Yang Yongxin's Internet addiction rehabilitation center, where they were brutally subjected to electric shock therapy.
In reality, in fact, some stupid parents' education methods are more magical and cruel than the "Dog Thirteen".
In the film, after Li Play was beaten, he really obeyed, and it turned out that growing up and understanding things was not gradual, but overnight.
Lee play began to accept the dog that was not Einstein, and thus silently chose to accept his half-brother.
When Li Play went to his brother's birthday party, he suddenly found that he was the last person to know that he had a younger brother, his brother was surrounded by his family, Li Play silently applauded behind his back, Li Play seemed to understand that she understood things, and did not get more love from her family.
But the matter is far from over, when Li played his brother at home, accidentally hurt his grandmother, the adult did not force Li to play brother to apologize.
When Li Play's younger brother was frightened by the dog, Li Play's father directly took a mop and stabbed the dog's mouth.
Li Play felt that there was no difference between him and the dog at this time, the dog was an accessory to the family, and if he liked it, he would reward the bones, and when he hated it, he would punch and kick.
However, what is even more cruel is that after Li Play's brother was bitten by a dog, the adults wanted to throw Li Play's new dog, which was difficult to accept, out of the house.
In our daily lives, don't we often have such non-negotiable family choices, the elders have the absolute right to choose, and the children only need to obey the orders.
Finally, at the celebration banquet, when Li Play ate the dog meat given by his relatives, Li Play completed the transformation of adolescent rebellion and truly became a "sensible, obedient, polite" child in the eyes of adults.
I don't know when the words "filial piety, sensible, and well-behaved" have become a stumbling block to the free expression of kidnapped children, from the staggering of the celebration banquet in the film, back to reality, when we were young, we did not show talent shows in front of relatives.
To this day, when I go home for the New Year, there will still be children who are forced to dance in front of adults, sing a song, and read a poem, and adults will not take the initiative to ask whether children are willing or not.
Just like the piece of dog meat in the film, it became the focus of the atmosphere of all the adults, and they did not ask Li Play why he hesitated.
To sum up, this movie has a strong sense of landing, as long as the audience who grew up in a Chinese family, in this movie, they will definitely find some shadows of their own growth, and even some families that are not reorganized in the interests of a small number, and they will be in tears.
After watching "Dog Thirteen", we can't help but ask ourselves how many youth pains we have experienced.
Although there is no uniform standard for each family education method without breaking the law, what the film tells us is that all decisions made by children when they are minors are deprived and controlled by adults.
Every decision adult makes for a child, must be right?
If a teenage child becomes an old, sophisticated, social person who is full of social skills early, is it really a kind of progress in our way of education, or even in society?!
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