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I hope to accompany you to interpret the film in depth.
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It is a story of chicken soup for the soul, sad and beautiful.
The Strange Journey of Young Spyway.
Simply put, it is an unusually sensitive child, Spivey, who experiences inner pain and entanglement and is finally redeemed.
The story takes place in a strange but happy family.
They lived in the Peenne Mountains north of the Great Dividing Range in the western United States.
It is magnificent and vast, but it is pristine and desolate, far from the bustling city, and more than half of the United States is far from Washington in the east.
The family is happy, but the family of five, none of them seem to be normal.
Spevie's father is a man whose life is full of cowboy dreams, and his room is full of cowboy leather boots, guns, and all kinds of prey, such as wolves, eagles, and leopards...
He must have been a fan of Marlboro, and his dreams were all about galloping horses.
Spevi's mother, an entomologist, was passionate about the study of all kinds of insects, even fleas and maggots that make the average person sick.
Of course, her greatest skill is not this, but that she has enough ability to burn a piece of bread machine when making breakfast, which has been lined up several layers.
Speyve's fraternal twin brother Layton, on the other hand, perfectly inherited his father's cowboy genes, an 8-year-old child who plays with a gun and plays with a gun, and his biggest hobby is to hit everything that moves with a gun.
Spevie's health was far inferior to Layton's, but he was a bully whose articles were published in magazines; he also invented perpetual motion machines and sent samples to the Smithsonian Institution, which later won the Baird Prize.
In the whole family, the most normal is Spevie's sister, a young girl who loves beauty, who has been complaining about living in the desolate West, and her dream is to run for Miss America. She longs for life in the city.
Although everyone is very strange, on the surface, it seems to be a very happy family.
But happiness came to an abrupt halt in the afternoon of the day.
In the barn of the farm, Layton was hit by a stray shotgun.
The shotgun was jammed, so Spivere held the barrel and asked Layton to examine it.
As a result, there was a bang, and Layton flew out. Although Spevie didn't hit the trigger.
Without any luck, Layton was not able to return to the family.
From the day Layton died, little Spellwell, in his sensitive heart, was constantly entangled and painful: If it was himself who died, not Layton, would his parents be happy?
Because, Layton, he's the one who can hit a wolf 200 meters away.
It's also because Dad never patted him on the back like Layton did (though he did it only once).
It was also because Dad never put his cowboy hat on his head like it was on Layton's head.
It's a cruel thing to do. The question of life and death is difficult for even the most open-minded adults to explain and face calmly. How can an extremely sensitive child be able to dispatch?
When we were young, our biggest grievance was only beaten by our parents, and then full of desolation, thinking of running away from home and making our parents anxious to take revenge. But more often than not, this happiness in the heart is limited to imagination. At that time, He zeng thought about life and death.
Spivey, who had no answer in the shadow of Layton's death, took advantage of the perpetual motion machine baird Award to speak at Smithsonian College one day when he was 10 years old, secretly climbed on a passing train and embarked on a journey to Washington. I also embarked on a journey to find the answers to my heart.
Spevie's journey spanned most of the United States.
He walked through vast forests and mountains,
He crossed the great lakes, through the desert,
He crossed the prairie, through the town,
He walked through the darkness, and he also through the day,
Through Wyoming, Chicago,
Through the tranquility and prosperity, but also through the dreams of others,
Trying to find answers, but still confused.
In this process, the director uses two chicken soups for the soul to directly present what he wants to express to us.
The first, Spike encounters a railroad worker, "Two Clouds," who tells a story:
Once upon a time, there was a very sick sparrow that could not fly south for the winter, and it had to look for trees that would give it warmth and shelter to perch for the winter. But neither oaks, weeds, poplars, willows, or elms agreed to it
Eventually, it found pine trees. The pine tree said, My leaves are sparse, but if you will,
My answer is: Yes.
As the two separated, the railroader said to Spike:
I'm sure you'll find your own perch.
Second, Spike hitched a hitchhiker who hitched a ride, who said:
I don't know what you're looking for, but, the road, is right under your feet.
Later, Spevie also experienced all kinds of things, but at the end of the story, it finally returned to a happy ending.
Love saves the sensitive heart.
Frankly speaking, this film is a bit routine.
But it is such a routine that almost makes you cry.
Spike looks for the inner story, I think it's everyone's story.
Everyone starts from a child, and every child always has secrets in his heart that cannot be found, and there are always secrets that are constantly being sought.
They grow up with us, some disappear, and some still stubbornly straddle our hearts.
The various experiences in the search process form our most cherished and precious treasures, and when we recall them, they are either joyful or sad or confused.
Each of us is looking for our own perch, in this complex and fucking world.
I always thought it was an American film, and after checking the information, I realized that it was a French film, and the director was Jean-Pierre Genet.
Frankly speaking, I am really not familiar with it, Baidu took a look, only to know his big name.
In 1991, he won four César Awards for his first feature film, Rhapsody of the Black Shop, with his partner Mark Carroll.
Later, his Angel Amelie was a worldwide success and became the highest-grossing film in France at the time.
The next "Long Marriage Contract" also recreates the grand situation when "Angel Amelie" was released that year.
He is known as a ghost director, and is particularly good at the fusion of comedy and tragedy, thus giving people a unique shock.
"The Strange Journey of Young Spevie" is not the director's most bullish film, but he has successfully taken away our tears.
Perhaps the film is exactly like this, the more sensitive the director, the easier it is to shoot delicate feelings.
The more sensitive the viewer, the easier it is to be touched.
Some netizens have also said that the ultimate tragedy has the most shocking life.
He gave an example, "Busan Trip." If the final shot, in the face of the surviving pregnant women and little girls, the director deals with the army guarding Busan and shoots, then "Busan Trip" will truly and completely seal the gods. The director's choice can only make "Busan Trip" a good work.
But I prefer a warm ending to the ultimate tragedy.
Because, this world has too much helplessness and accidents.
Also because, the world is not fully empathetic, you have your story, I have my helplessness, no one can replace anyone.
The only thing you can do, perhaps the most unforgivable, is to give yourself relief in the face of what has happened and cannot be changed:
It doesn't blame anyone, it's just an accident.
Just like life, it is just the beginning of an accident.
But everyone in this accident should be brave enough to turn to the light and strive to grow.
This growth keeps us warm and makes us powerful. Let us see the world, see ourselves.
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