Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Li Li
Identification object: "Five Teenagers Who Splashed water"
Release date: October 1st
Because of this movie, I got into trouble with a friend of the opposite sex for many years. He thinks that this is a high-quality youth film that has rarely been seen in recent years, but I think it is the opposite - if he had not stopped him, I would have given this film a bad review on the spot.
The two of us decided to talk calmly - usually the taste is quite the same, why is there such a big disagreement in the views of this film? Let's start with the story: Five teenagers formed a men's synchronized swimming team, and in the case of the coach's hospitalization, parental opposition, and school obstruction, they finally completed a perfect performance. We both can understand the plot, but the look and feel is completely different - the whole process of watching the film, he laughed, I was like a needle felt.
I first put forward the argument "this is a bad film" No.1: the human setting is vague, and the five teenagers can't see who is the protagonist. He immediately retorted: "Who stipulates that there can only be one protagonist?" Besides, adolescents are actually so 'almost'. "Okay, I put forward argument No.2: The character's motivation is broken. For example, parents who resolutely oppose their son's learning to swim in a figure finally appeared at the scene of the Games with a ticket. I asked: Where is the reconciliation? Who gave the tickets? "Most of the communication between parents and children in China is 'in silence,'" he said. Besides, is it necessary to shoot out the process of giving tickets? It's too wordy. Okay, I put forward argument No.3: the heroine has too few shots and lacks interaction with teenagers. He exclaimed, "That's right! Why do youth films have to love to die and live? I think this bit of hazy feeling is just right! ”
I found it impossible to talk about it. Obviously, in my eyes, the simple and rude, in his eyes, is to get rid of the mother-in-law and the pretentious "no more, no less just right" in his eyes. But on second thought, most of the youth films in the past seem to have been mostly from a female perspective, focusing on youth pain, emotion or delicate or tactful or long. In the words of a friend, it is the lack of a little boy's "no heart and no lungs". "In fact, this film is not so perfect, there are many bugs, but it reminds me of my middle school days." He said that he liked the brutality of the five teenagers in the film, "just do it, regardless of the consequences and don't ask the way forward."
As for my feeling that the plot in the film is always like a "broken film", the emotions of a bunch of supporting characters are also slightly jumpy, and he thinks it makes sense. Because the whole story is shot from the perspective of the teenagers. They simply ignore the twists and turns of the adults' minds, so in their eyes, the behavior of adults seems to be rapidly changing and incomprehensible.
"I always feel a little silly anyway." I refuse to concede.
"Yes." He admitted, "But stupidity is youth." (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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