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Yes, Dog Thirteen is a youth film.
In the context of domestic movies, this is probably the second type of movie that Uncle Eggplant hates, second only to domestic horror films.
The reason for this disgust can be traced back to 2013, when two highly representative youth films came out:
One "To Youth", one "Little Times".
Since then, domestic youth films have entered an era of rapid development (circle money), accelerating the process of its "rotten film".
No one knows that in the same year, a youth film that touched the core of "Chinese-style education" was beaten into the "cold palace" and passed for five years.
In the past five years, one so-called youth film after another has harvested the audience's wallet with its unique "pain aesthetic".
Of course, they also make more viewers recognize the ugliness behind this false prosperity, so much so that many people now directly equate youth films with bad films.
I'm curious, if it had appeared five years ago, wouldn't the ending have been different?
Dog Thirteen
Why do we think the current youth film sucks? Just because of the plot dog blood?
No, it's because it's fake.
In the youth of most Chinese children, love is already a rare luxury, and lala small hands hate not to wash for three days, where is so much tearing abortion triangle?
Home and school are two points and one line, and this trajectory can almost continue until the moment we enter the university campus.
Therefore, if you want to make a youth film that meets China's national conditions, you must not be separated from the two "main battlefields" of campus and family.
Authenticity is always one of the best ways movies can express emotions.
The most rare thing about "Dog Thirteen" is that it captures this reality, even real enough to have a documentary flavor.
As the hot comment in Douban said: It turns out that we all grew up like this.
Whether you are 13, 23, or 33 now, when you see Li Play in this movie, you can clearly find your own shadow from her.
The name Li Play sounds very casual, but in fact it is indeed a random name. Her parents divorced, her father remarried, and she lived with her grandparents.
At the age of thirteen, she had an extra brother, half-brother.
In order not to let Li Play have emotions, the whole family hid from her, and her father was afraid of her loneliness, and even sent her a dog.
The dog's name is Einstein because Lee plays with physics. Originally, Li Play didn't like this dog very much, but after getting along for a long time, his feelings were also deep.
One day, Grandpa lost Einstein while walking his dog, igniting Lee's rebellion of playing adolescence.
What followed was an unknown number of days of confrontation, conflict, quarrel, cold war, and then Li Play's stepmother came up with an idea.
She found a dog similar to Einstein's and told Lee that this was Einstein.
Incidentally, the film's English name is "Einstein & Einstein", which literally translates to "Einstein and Einstein".
The director uses Lee to play with the change in attitude towards the two Einsteins, telling us that the so-called growth is not the moment you turn eighteen.
It's when you learn to pick up the childish or sharp emotions that you've been reluctant to let go of, and start to show kindness to your surroundings.
Oh, there's a word in the movie that accurately describes this state—hypocritical.
Frankly speaking, there is nothing worth talking about in the whole story, and this is a story that can happen in any family in all of China.
What is really worth discussing is people, and the "Chinese-style education concept" derived from the relationship between the characters.
Talking about this, I believe that every parent and child has endless grievances and complaints, don't worry, we will talk slowly in the movie.
When many people watch movies, they like to oppose the role of Li playing against her family, as if the child really has irreconcilable contradictions with the elders.
This is a big misunderstanding.
If you watch the movie seriously, you will find that her life is much happier than many of her peers.
Although her parents divorced, her father still had a successful career, and her academic performance was at the top of the class, and the most important thing was that the whole family loved her.
Yes, I'm not kidding.
Even from the current point of view, Li Play's family environment is rarely enlightened.
Can't scold can not be more normal, eat not at the table to eat, sit on the sofa with a bowl and watch TV? If I had been a child, I would have come with chopsticks...
Needless to say, the pampering of grandparents is not to mention, and even the father, who looks arrogant and authoritarian, has not imagined unkindness.
He would force Lee to play with an English group she didn't like, and would kiss her forehead when she got good grades;
He will poison li play when he makes a big mistake, and he will also sincerely apologize to his daughter after his emotions have calmed down.
You see, people are complex and multi-faceted, especially in an intimate relationship.
Father and son do not have overnight feuds, let alone father and daughter?
Li Play's father definitely loves his daughter, and I believe that Li Play himself can feel this love.
Since the whole family loves her, what is the problem? What makes her feel lonely or even miserable?
respect.
In the Chinese family environment, respect is probably scarcer than the balance in your Alipay, and there is always a relationship between parents and children that resembles superiors and subordinates.
Of course, parents love their children, but love returns to love, and when it comes to the time of urgency, I'm sorry, you Lao Tzu or you Lao Tzu.
respect? How much is respect worth? Lao Tzu (mother) a handful of a handful of urine to bring you so big, grow up to talk to me about respect?
Don't return your mouth, otherwise the ultimate triad of "disobedience, ignorance, and good for your own" is waiting for you.
In the eyes of parents, all undesirable choices are collectively referred to as "disobedience";
All unsatisfactory remarks, collectively referred to as "ignorance";
Instead, everything they think is right and intends for you to perform is "for your own good."
The above three situations will occur in a person aged 12-18, so some experts and scholars call this period a rebellious period.
But no one ever thinks about why children rebel.
Where did Lee play's initial anger come from? Was the dog lost? No.
Was it when she asked, "Did you go looking for it?" The whole family was silent.
She could not blame the old man for his negligence, but there was no way to forgive her family for inaction.
The signal that comes out of this is: if you lose it, you lose it, isn't it a dog, what is there to find?
In other words, what Li Play cherishes is not worth mentioning in the eyes of adults.
Yes, the child's business is always a big fart thing, Li play here feels that the sky is about to collapse, but the whole family only thinks that this girl is crazy, for the sake of a dog.
This kind of thinking completely broke out after the "pointing the deer as a horse" incident: I have found you a dog, how can you not be satisfied, what else do you want to do!
After a fat beating, Lee played a metamorphosis.
The scene where she cries in the bathroom reminds me of the words Matilda asked Leon in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold":
Leon replied: Always.
As a result, all the grievances, helplessness, and anger in Li Play's heart turned into a sentence of "forget it."
Until this moment, she really touched the threshold of understanding, or growth.
She began to try to accept the new Einstein, learn English she didn't like, and drink milk she couldn't drink.
Later, she became more and more catered to, more sophisticated, like a courtier who was accustomed to speculation.
When she swallowed that piece of dog meat at Daddy's dinner table, we could finally say with confidence: She grew up.
Is there anything bad about growing up? Nothing.
Because adults will say:
That's how we grew up.
Li Play looked at his brother who had just turned five years old and pleaded bitterly at the ice rink, and suddenly smiled.
I guess what she was thinking in her head at the time was: He's going to grow up this way too.
You see, what special youth do we have?
It's just reincarnation.
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