Text: Dots
I like the word "dream", which represents the truest desire of people and symbolizes the distant places that people strive to pursue.
When a person has a dream, he will quickly get out of all the sluggish state, not afraid of setbacks, brave to fight.
The day the dream came true, it was like all the stars lit up.
From this theme, Finland and Norway have co-produced a "History of Band Fame".
The band members are ordinary people with no sense of existence, and the plot branch is also an ordinary "little people's dream journey".
The difference is that the director added a lot of funny elements, gray humor to the story, and finally settled on the theme of "inspirational". At the end, the audience laughed and cried, which just proved the success of the film.
Title: "Heavy Metal Journey"
Finland, ordinary town, 4 poor dicks. They are good friends who grew up together and bandmates who get along day and night.
The lead singer is a nursing home nurse, the guitar is a reindeer butcher, the bass is a librarian, and the drummer is a suicidal little fat man. They are the most ordinary people in daily life, but they have the most extraordinary dreams.
Taking the lead singer as an example, his daily life is a three-point line of home, nursing home, and band room. With long "sharp brother" hair, he basically doesn't talk much except for the time he sings.
The lead singer has a girl who has a crush for a long time, but he has not been afraid to confess. Because of his cowardly personality and some inferiority, the people in the town always classified him as a "mother cannon". - Because he has long hair that is different from the public.
At the beginning, the director used the external image of the character to satirize social discrimination, and also laid the depth of the film.
At any time, there will be a phenomenon of judging people by their appearance, which is really a great sadness.
Sometimes, even the band members themselves can't remember how long they practiced together. They locked themselves in a cramped basement and sang all day.
As the Norwegian Metal Festival was about to begin, they finally woke up: after practicing for 12 years, it was time to prepare for their debut. So, they seriously prepared the first song of the band.
This process is very funny, not in the process of everyone creating new songs, but in the oolong outside the creation.
The organizer of the metal music festival is an old cowboy with a hat, who wants to buy the blood of the butcher's family, but is bloodied by the butcher's son (the band's guitar).
The fat man wanted to seize the opportunity to hand over the recorded demo to the producer, but he ran too fast and did not brake the car. The whole person flipped into the back seat of the car. It's really a live laugh out loud pig barking.
In order to participate in the metal music festival smoothly, the band performed in the town, hoping that everyone would support them.
Unfortunately, the lead singer has a slight social phobia, singing hi directly when one person is alone, and can't hold a fart for half a day when there are many people.
Even more unfortunately, the police forcibly confiscated the band's promotional video they had taken with illegal cameras. The dream has not yet begun, there are already signs of an end...
So far, the movie has only rated 7.7 on Douban. A little bit of watching the whole film thinks that the movie is completely underrated.
The first half of the oolong funny and the second half of the blood boiling become a stark contrast, but if you watch it, you will be touched by the persistence of the band members. This movie should also have a minimum score of 8.5.
The character is portrayed very well.
The 4 band members are ordinary little people, and when they play the band, they have their own lives, the people they want to protect, and their own troubles.
The drummer Fat Man was very talented, but his life was very fucked up, and he committed suicide twice in a row. It was the band that gave him the courage to persevere and rekindle the hope of life.
The other three are not really decadent, but they also have the emotion of "not knowing what to call it".
Most of the time, they are the forgotten and neglected category. Only when they play music will they feel like they are alive. That's the power that dreams bring to people.
Of course, when the dream was denied, the band members were also painfully confused. They don't know what else they can do.
But soon, they adjusted their mentality and prepared to retake their battlefield.
You may not believe it when you say it, but the name of their band is "Insert Rectum" (God knows how scared little it is when you hear it).
Inserting unexpected funny elements into the inspirational side line can also be regarded as ingenious.
In addition, the picture of this film is also very beautiful, the director shot a lot of environmental empty mirrors, lighting and composition are called beautiful.
As a musical comedy, the soundtrack of "Heavy Metal Journey" is very fickle and multi-style. You will shake your head as the plot evolves, and you will also savor life and dreams in the gentle lyrical BGM. The plot is compact, and the story has laughter and tears.
In the shot where the band takes the stage and ends with a cheerful performance, how many people see their imaginary selves?
One day, you will also achieve such success and stand on the biggest stage of life in your imagination. Until then, you just need to work hard like the band members and don't forget the original intention. As long as you don't give up, there will be a successful day.