Last year, I introduced a TV series called Modern Love.
In just eight episodes, the director has made several very realistic urban love stories, each of which can make people feel the same way, and there is no lack of dramatic romance and conflict.
The director of the show is called John Carney, and he is a very interesting person who has had an interesting life experience.
He is a bassist in the band, can play and sing, and also produces videos of concerts and music for the band.
Later, because he was too obsessed with image work, this musician turned into a director, and then the audience found out that he was still a true master of romance films.
A romantic film director who is proficient in music can imagine how romantic it will be!
John Carney has made many films about love, the most famous of which is his musical love movie trilogy.
One is "Once Upon a Time," which tells the love story of a street male singer and a girl who loves the piano.
There is also "Meet You in New York", which belongs to one of the top 250 doubans, and the love between the male and female protagonists is also more romantic and amorous because of music.
Not long ago, I recommended the korean variety of street bands "Go Again", which is also very related to John Carney's films.
Not only does it have the same name as "Meet You in New York Again", but also in the show, Yoon Do-hyun and his entourage of musicians also went to the filming location that appeared in the "Once Upon a Time" movie to reproduce the scenes in the movie. This shows the great influence of John Carney's films.
Han Zong "Go Again" / Stills
The last part of the trilogy is the "First Love Song" that I want to talk about today.
"First Love This Love Song"
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The story takes place in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, in the 1980s.
Connor (Foddia Walsh-Piro) is a 17-year-old boy in adolescence.
Others are also stuffy, with average academic performance and no special hobbies.
His family is also very ordinary, his parents have been at odds for a long time, and quarrels have long been common. My brother had dropped out of school long ago, and only my younger sister was hardworking.
Because the family conditions are not rich, my parents are always worried about paying off the mortgage and supporting their three children.
So the new semester started, in order to save money, my parents directly asked Connor to transfer to a more economical school.
Unsurprisingly, this is a very unusual school, and the environment is very bad. From the first day of entering the school in the morning, students have smoked or fought in the playground, toilet or cafeteria.
There was also the kind of arrogant and unreasonable leper who saw that Connor was a freshman and a bully, so he pulled him into the toilet and forced him to dance.
Not only are the students disobedient, but the teachers are not getting any better. Some people carry bottles and drink with them in class, and others are very authoritarian and violent, and Connor suffers a lot for this.
School life is so bad, but fortunately Connor soon meets the heroine Rafina (Lucy Baotong).
The first time I saw her was on the steps in front of the school. At that time, Rafina had heavy makeup, fluffy curls, and a cigarette in her mouth, which was quite high-profile.
Connor fell in love at first sight, and the second illness was committed on the spot.
Hearing that the family was a model, Connor directly invited her to be the MV heroine of his band. The problem is that at the time he said this, he didn't join any so-called band at all!
But the bragging is blown out, and Connor is not embarrassed to fall in front of the girl he likes, right? So after saying goodbye to Rafina on the day of the fight, Connor immediately began to look around for someone to team up with him.
The funny thing is that although it has been through ups and downs, this band has really formed it for him.
They have small wits on braces, and when the agent works part-time to shoot mv for the band.
There is a handsome guy Eamon who can write songs and is good at many instruments.
A black guy who could play keyboards, and guitarists and drummers who signed up.
Although the six people stood together in uneven heights, the rehearsal and singing were still quite similar.
They huddled in a small room and gave the band a very stylish name, called sing street.
But none of this matters, the most important thing is that Connor can finally go to Rafina to shoot mv!
At that time, recording mv was a very new and rare thing for young people.
Connor and his friends were also very confused when they went to record the mv, although they were very excited, but they could only fool around with their imagination.
They found themselves at home to wear costumes for the camera, some dressed as western denim, some wearing sky blue velvet suits, and others wearing red trench coats, which was more than one exaggeration.
In order to be more photogenic, Rafina also worked part-time as a makeup artist to make them makeup, painting each boy's eyes with a thick colorful eyeliner.
During the formal recording, they discussed the shots, poses, and moving lines themselves, although the craftsmanship was full of mistakes.
But I can't stand it, everyone is really having fun ahhaha!
When the friends were immersed in the fun of the band, Connor did not forget the original intention of his own band -
Bubble girl.
But his tricks are simply too naïve and too middle two.
Once after recording mv, he rode his bicycle to take Rafina home, and carried people all the way around in circles, just to chat with her more. But it didn't take long for this careful thinking to be exposed.
What's even worse is that when I arrived at Rafina's residence, Connor found that the family had a boyfriend who drove a sports car...
On another occasion, Connor thought about writing a song specifically for Rafina, called "The Mystery of the Model."
He himself excitedly took it to others, but when they thanked him, he pretended to say:
Don't get me wrong, it has nothing to do with you, this is what I wrote to someone else!
Probably this is the honey juice that adolescent boys all over the world have, like people, but dare not say it directly, and are ashamed to express it.
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Connor fell deeper and deeper into Rafina.
Although he has to face annoying teachers at school and listen to his parents quarrel when he comes home, fortunately, he still has music and a girl he likes in his heart.
As long as he can sing and see Rafina, all the moments of grievance and discomfort will be temporarily away, as if he is not afraid of anything.
During the band, Connor's image also changed from a well-behaved man to a maverick non-mainstream.
Sometimes he wears a yellow hair and draws blue eyeliner, and sometimes he wears sunglasses and wears a coat to play handsome.
He also did not expect that this band, which was temporarily formed because of Rafina, had become his own sustenance.
I think he must have fantasized that one day he would be as cool as the song sang? Or do you make a lot of money like a singer who sings and then escapes here to have a new life?
He wrote songs and practiced songs like crazy, putting his attitude and heart in the lyrics.
He fantasized that one day, if he could become famous, he would stand on the big stage and sing for Rafina and for himself.
Connor knew that as a model Rafina had always had a London dream, and that there was only one Irish sea between Dublin and the British border.
He also used to drive the boat left by his grandfather to carry Rafina into the Irish Sea.
But before she could wait for the day she had imagined, Rafina left with her boyfriend.
During that time Connor felt like he was out of love.
But he didn't expect that it wouldn't be long before Rafina returned, like a changed person, with light makeup, like a girl next door.
It turned out that she had been cheated on by her boyfriend, who had not made any plans, and the two people had a fight on the way, Rafina, and was abandoned.
Rafina's frustration was evident, but Connor didn't say anything, but later invited her to a band show he had at school.
On that day, Connor and his friends were making a lot of noise on stage, wearing masks to taunt the annoying teacher
The song reveals the momentum of a teenager, the stubbornness of disdain for discipline, and the tossing and turning that is characteristic of teenagers.
The students in the audience were cheering, and the musicians on the stage were excited, and the crowd was vast. They always stared at each other, their eyes full of surprise and love.
The atmosphere of the film also reaches a climax in the sound of music.
Ah, such a seventeen or eighteen-year-old age, just suitable for ignorant love, just suitable for drawing a blueprint for the future for yourself, just suitable for breaking free of bondage and enjoying the most free youth.
Although they are just a group of young girls who have never been in the world, they have the courage to dare to break through, fearless and beautiful vitality.
It really makes people have to sigh, young is beautiful.