In the four seasons of the year, summer is the most restless, the summer when I was a child is long, the sound of cicadas, the sound of rain, the quiet night, and those wandering and pulling, many people have experienced, the story in the film begins from that summer.
In the summer of 1998, Piero fought in the World Cup, and the 10-year-old Xiaoyang dreamed the same as him, but as the school leader's father, refused to let Xiaoyang enter the school football team, study under high pressure, and live according to the rules, so that he gradually became dissatisfied with his father and began to resist head-on.
The mother of a Yue opera actor, intoxicated with her own career, rarely accompanies Xiaoyang. Grandpa Zheng, who lived in the same courtyard, became his master and playmate, and this "yearless" relationship accompanied him all summer.
The new English teacher in the school broke the seemingly happy life of the Xiaoyang family, and the first person to discover this secret was Xiaoyang, who used his eyes to examine the adult world, and also used his rebellious behavior to resist his father's spiritual infidelity.
From the perspective of three generations and four people, this film shows the different perceptions and changes brought to them by growing up, just like experiencing a transformation throughout the summer.
And the author combines the changes of the new era and the characters seamlessly, and the whole story does not have great ups and downs, like the flat and direct narration in the Japanese drama, the slow rhythm, leaving a memory for everyone who has experienced 1988.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Gu Xiaoyang: the loneliness that already exists, the unfulfilled dream
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Everyone is afraid of loneliness, but they never enjoy loneliness, and among all kinds of loneliness, people are most afraid of spiritual loneliness.
Xiaoyang is an only child, no brothers and sisters to accompany, only two good friends in the school, middle-class family, he is very good materially, but because of the contradiction when the good friend ignores him, and there is no parental company, it is more lonely.
Late at night he would take out the little box hidden under the bed and play with Ultraman, and he would sit alone in the doorway waiting for his parents to come home. Children's childhood needs the company of parents, and children who lack companionship will appear more withdrawn, which is a common symptom of children.
Despite this, Xiaoyang has a football dream, because his father is a serious and stereotypical person, and he hopes that his son can study seriously and not waste time outside of studying, so when the school football team application form needs to be signed by parents, Xiaoyang does not dare to give it to his father.
Ma Yun said: When a person is richest, he has a dream, and he is the happiest to have a dream, and he must adhere to his dream.
It is even more precious for children to have dreams. The education of that era hoped that students would "study well and improve every day", and then look at today's education, before they reached the school age, parents reported a variety of cram classes, interest classes, and developed their interests and hobbies from an early age. Children have dreams, should be early to insist, after all, there are not many children with dreams.
Even at a young age, dreams are always alive. Xiaoyang has been on the road of loving dreams and chasing dreams, but her young heart still hopes that her parents will have more companionship and support.
When you are a child, the love and companionship that parents give to their children will make their childhood more abundant, which is a crucial influence on a person many years later.
After experiencing the whole summer, Xiaoyang has also grown a lot, in fact, growing up is only a matter of a moment, just like suddenly understanding a certain truth, and the child's world, is a simple companionship, a simple dream, a simple play, thinking back to youth:
That's when we were young
You love to talk and I love to laugh
Somehow fell asleep
How much do you know in your dreams
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Gu Jianhua: The eager "early adopter" can hardly hide the anxiety of middle-aged people</h1>
Xiaoyang's father, Gu Jianhua, is the school's director of teaching, about to turn forty, he has been the director of teaching for ten years, and suddenly there is a chance to be promoted to vice principal, he seems to see a glimmer of hope, when he takes the key to the vice principal's office, his hands are clasped, as if that is all he has.
Gu Jianhua lives in a dull state all day, like a step-by-step salted fish, the school's new English teacher, young, beautiful, energetic, let him mentally happy a lot, looking for opportunities to get close to the young teacher, in his opinion, she is simple, can bring himself a fresh feeling.
Teaching, he can guide her inadequacies; at work, he has the right to decide whether she stays or not; in life, she plays the guitar, she chats, all of this, what better than a simple living life like a blank piece of paper, the feeling of letting himself be in control can make a middle-aged man laugh?
So he deliberately approached her, in order to see her, specially to choose the clothes to wear the next day, to listen to her singing, to take her to the dance hall, although clumsily dancing, he was very happy at that moment. However, his happiness was very lame in the eyes of the other party.
As he hugged her, she decisively pushed away, and in the summer rain he understood that from beginning to end it was his own unrequited love, a person's spiritual derailment, and she had never moved evil thoughts. Seeing himself performing like a clown, the flames he burned were extinguished in an instant, and it was the rain that made him return to reality.
At the end of the film, the position of vice principal he cares most about is replaced by someone else, sitting by the river smoking a cigarette, revealing his fragile and "little man" side.
The more people care about things, the more they don't get them in the end, they are extremely painful, because they look too heavy to bear the consequences of losing.
But throughout the summer, after experiencing some things, he seemed to really understand some truth.
Gu Jianhua expressed the anxiety of people in middle age vividly and obscurely, and the career did not rise; there was no goal in life; the gap between father and son; the wife who was stronger than himself; everywhere he could not breathe, but in middle age, in addition to the resistance of death, he was looking for a reason to relax, and "spiritual derailment" was his outlet to alleviate anxiety.
It was only after waking up that I really understood Roman Roland's words:
There is only one true heroism in the world, and that is to love life after recognizing the truth of life.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Huifang: Women who stand up from grief are stronger</h1>
Xiaoyang's mother, Huifang, is a woman in the new era, a Yue opera actor, and a pillar in the troupe, most of the time is spent on her career, taking care of her family very little, she is very good herself, giving her husband a deep sense of crisis.
Invite colleagues to eat at home.
Leadership Greetings: The Cultural Affairs Bureau officially informed Huifang that she is competing for the Plum Blossom Award, and the rehearsal period will follow, so please take more children with Teacher Gu.
Gu Jianhua: In fact, the school work is not as idle as everyone thinks, and I will become a vice principal next year.
Huifang's investment in work was originally intended to change to a bigger house, but on the way to achieve her goal, she saw her husband's spirit cheating. It was from the delicate handkerchief in the bathroom; or the son dragging her into the office where the two of them were talking alone; for her career, it was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
She sang "Infinite Joy Turns to Ashes" on stage and burst into tears, whether it was too deep into the play or the true feelings were revealed, only she knew.
At the end of the film, she wears a white dress, and her husband is sad to lean on her leg because she did not select the vice principal, and she does not bend down to give him a hug, nor does she say a word of comfort, but just stands quietly by the river and lets the wind blow her dress.
Perhaps for every wife, it is difficult to accept that her husband has cheated, even if it is only mentally infidelity. Therefore, at the moment when her husband was sad, she wanted to be comforted, but she still couldn't get over the hurdle in her heart.
Intimacy, it's mentioned that when things get tricky, intimacy is over.
In the 1990s, when it was the initiative to support women's independence, Huifang was the representative of the new women. Even if she divorces her husband, many people advise her that "your husband is a good person" and will persuade her to live well, but she must be the woman who is determined and does not look back.
The author Su Qian said: The more independent a woman is, the more advanced she is, and an independent woman believes in love, but does not believe in vows. She can talk to you, when lost in the crowd, or she can go to peace with you.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Grandpa Zheng: a nostalgic widow and widow, what can't be put down is the past
Grandpa Zheng is another character in the whole film who embodies the sense of age, he lives in the same yard as Xiaoyang, has an eccentric personality, and rarely deals with neighbors.
After the death of his grandson Xiao Bao, he often mentioned Xiao Bao in his mouth, sprinkling all his resentment on his son and refusing to accept new things, including the layoffs of factory workers, and he could not help but stop it.
Xiaoyang's intrusion comforted the old man's lonely heart, Grandpa Zheng taught him to play football, took him to watch the ball game, took him to do everything he wanted to do, he easily lost his temper with anyone, only gentle whispering to the child.
For Xiaoyang's dream, let his son buy a genuine jersey from Shenzhen; he will also take Xiaoyang to see Xiaobao lying in the cold cemetery; he will take a solemn photo with his grandson's tombstone, and he will also take Xiaoyang to Shenzhen for a walk.
This eccentric old man was always reluctant to throw away everything he had, including his wife's old photographs, including the dilapidated house. It was only in the enlightenment of Xiaoyang that he gradually understood that some things should be put down, just like some estrangement from his son, and he often said that the father and son were not harmonious, and it was natural and righteous.
In the end, he still put everything down and went to Shenzhen with his son, but before leaving, he did not forget to give a small "year-old friend", a solemn farewell.
No matter how long time has passed, the old man needs to accompany him after all, and Grandpa Zheng's situation is like that of thousands of old people who stay behind, because living in that era, always sticking to the brand of that era, unwilling to accept new things, afraid of one day forgetting the way to come, and also afraid of the strange road in the future.
Sometimes, we find ourselves in the mood to care about others.
In general, this reflects that we also need to be cared for. If we tell someone we are in pain and we cannot take care of their feelings and needs, someone else is likely to reach out. However, many times, we need our own thoughtfulness.
Conclusion: No matter what age, there is its pain and pain, and when you experience that time, maybe it is sadness or stinging, it will grow up in an instant.
We have all experienced the tingling of that summer, and the stinging feeling of growth has also been experienced, and in the end, the regret is not that Xiaoyang's father did not become the vice principal, nor did he leave Grandpa Zheng, but with the passage of time, we will forget the summer of 1998, but never forget the cost of growth.