There are not a few big-budget movies produced in 2019, "Decisive Midway" brought the most brutal naval and air war in World War II to the screen; "Angel Fall" finally beat the idea of the President of the United States as the audience guessed after saving countless celebrities and politicians in the previous game; and the film version of "Breaking Bad" and "First Blood 5" finally ended the classic many years later, completing the farewell performance of Rambo and Xiao Fan.
After these wild explosions and guns and bullets, except for "Breaking Bad Movie: Survival Criminals" with the success of that year's series, yu Wei barely scored 8.1 points, the rest of the films are difficult to call masterpieces, and the audience's aesthetic fatigue of the sensory stimulation of the big scene has become more and more obvious.
Sometimes, some unpopular small-scale independent films will devote more energy to the plot of the film and tell a touching story for the audience.
"Katie's Farewell", which was released at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, told such a story for the audience.
In a border town in California, USA, the sound of chickens and dogs is heard here, and most of the townspeople know each other. Katie, a beautiful and innocent young girl, works as a waitress in a café on the side of the road, occasionally providing special services for long-distance freight drivers and townspeople.
It seems that this kind of behavior is not at all related to innocence and kindness, but knowing Katie's family education, the officials know that what I said is true.
Katie's father ran away from home with no news, and her mother had no job and lived off conquest relief. The fixed entertainment pastime is to let the daughter Katie groom her, and after the heavy makeup is applied, different men will come to the house every day to spend the night, even the old king of the next door neighbor's house does not let go, and the grass on the side of the nest is not tired.
Katie grew up with such a deaf ear and did not know that the special service she did was a shame. Instead, Katie will provide some plausible explanation for children who hear strange moans.
But there's a reason for everything she's done, and Katie wants to save up the money to move as quickly as possible with her two incomes, and her dream is to work as a hairdresser in San Francisco, California, and keep a pension for her mother.
Katie's boss, the café owner Mebel, takes care of Katie, knowing that Katie, who has no money to go to school to change her fate, supports the family alone, so she acquiesces to occasionally leaving the café briefly to start her own "side business" when she goes to work.
In the small town, the deeds of Katie's mother and daughter are well known, so all kinds of scoundrels come to take advantage of Katie, and even the police in the town often invite her to "hitchhike". Among the regular customers, a long-distance freight driver named Bell has the most special relationship with Katie, he is Katie's guest when he gets on the bus, and after the passion, he fills more of the gap in Katie's father's mind.
Human nature is complex, and in Bell's eyes, looking at Katie, who is about to board the truck, he may be both eager and guilty, and this girl who is cute enough to be his daughter may be the only person he's chatted with for a week.
However, Katie can't stop, her dreams, the family's expenses and rent, and even her mother's tobacco and alcohol habits all have to be paid for by her. Until a young man named Bruno came to the town, Bruno, who had been imprisoned for several years for stealing cars, worked in the town's garage, and Katie fell in love with him at first sight and took the initiative to show favor to Bruno.
The innocent Katie has always wanted to have a boyfriend who loves her, and the tall, mature and taciturn Bruno fulfills all her fantasies about her lover. Shortly after the two fell in love, Bruno, who heard his girlfriend in the town, solemnly asked Katie to stop her "service", and Katie kept her promise.
However, bad luck suddenly poured in one day, and when Bruno went to Katie's house to repair the car, Bruno's employer and another accomplice coaxed Katie out and insulted her. Meanwhile, Katie's unscrupulous mother seduces her daughter's boyfriend.
When Katie returns home with a bruise, she finds that her mother has swept away her savings and eloped with her, and Bruno beats up her boss with a wrench for Katie and flees in the stolen car.
Katie's two spiritual pillars collapse in an instant, the capital that abandons the personality to start over is stolen, the boyfriend runs away, the obscene landlord chases the meat to pay the rent, and Katie's life loses its direction and cries loudly. But a moment later, the strong one wiped away her tears and decisively gestured to a passing car to hitchhike.
These misfortunes are hardly said not to be Katie's relief, she spent the first half of her life in a promise, for her mother, for her boyfriend, and even for her father who had never met, after losing everything, Katie can finally make up her mind to pursue her own life.
There are many ways to implement an idea. Perhaps, sometimes it really only takes one decision.
The director of this film is called Wayne Roberts, the script of "Katie's Farewell" is also written by him, as a niche literary film, "Katie's Farewell" can score 7.6 on Douban is invaluable, and perhaps its Hong Kong translation name "Pink Sky" can better reflect the style of the film.
The heroine of the film, the cute and sensible teenage katie, is played by 26-year-old British actress Olivia Cook. Olivia Cook, who was born with a baby's face, is completely plain this time, but it is still difficult to hide her natural beauty.
Careful viewers should be able to find that in the 2018 Steven Spielberg-directed hit science fiction film "Ready Player One", she also has her shadow, and the petite and cute Samantha is played by her.
Many viewers in "Ready Player One" complained that Olivia Cook wore a belly pocket that was not beautiful at all, and there was a sense of strength, but in "Katie's Farewell", she still managed to slim down and become a young girl.
Olivia Cook's performance in many films is well-known, there are almost no low-scoring works, especially in recent years, the films starring are high-scoring evaluations, I believe everyone will be fans of her strength.