The 1996 British film Guess the Train has an extraordinary meaning for every movie fan. Yes, every fan.
People who are in adolescence or whose youth has passed away use it to flaunt or remember youth.
People who don't like it can express their disdain and dissatisfaction with it by reasoning such as "depravity", "preaching drug use", and "inducing people to commit crimes".
But you can't turn a blind eye to it, and I've always loved crazy, passionate, and even sinful youth.
So, I love it.
But I would say that under the age of 18 and adults with immature minds watch with caution.
20 years later, Guess the Train 2 is back, it doesn't have a rich plot and no huge changes. But you know what you want, what it deserves, it's still there.
Something has passed, something is eternal
Twenty years later, Redden, who had stolen sixteen thousand pounds, returned to Edinburgh, where everything had happened. His old friends were waiting for him: Potato, Sick Boy, Bergbi, and the new girl Veronica.
In this gathering, which has been separated for twenty years, something has passed, and something has remained unchanged.
When Redden returned to Edinburgh, he found that a lot of things had changed. There was no more beautiful girl like Diane waiting for her in the bar; her mother was gone, the once disgusting toilet and the surprising toilet were cleaned; even the most classic "choosing life" had changed.
Twenty years ago: "Choose life, choose life, choose career, choose family, choose the hateful big color TV, choose the washing machine, the car laser disc maker, choose the health, low cholesterol and dentist insurance, choose the mortgage, choose your friends, choose the suit, casual clothes and luggage, choose the installment payment and the three-piece suit, choose to watch boring game shows, eat snacks while watching... Choose your future, choose life... Too many options, what do you choose? I chose not to choose. ”
Twenty years later: "Choose designer underwear, delusional to bring life to lifeless relationships, choose handbags, choose high heels, cashmere and silk to make yourself feel happy, choose an Apple phone made in China by a woman who jumps out of the window, put the phone in the pocket of a jacket just made from a sweatshop in Southeast Asia, choose Facebook, twitter, snapchat, instagram, and a thousand ways to vent your anger with people you don't know, Choose to update your homepage, announce to the world what you ate for breakfast, and then hope where someone will care, choose to find old love, desperately believe that you don't look as bad as they are, choose to blog live, from the first time you use your hands to find happiness to the last breath, interpersonal communication is reduced to only data, choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who have had surgery, choose yellow jokes, slut-shaming, revenge porn, and the depressing misogyny, choose 911 incident never happened, If it happens, that's what the Jews do, choose non-binding contracts, commute two hours to work, choose the same for your children, only worse, maybe tell yourself it would be better if they weren't born, and then sit back and experience the pain of suffocation, smoke unknown drugs made in an unclear dose made in someone's kitchen, choose unfulfilled promises, choose that you can choose different things, choose never to learn from your own mistakes, choose to see history repeat itself instead of what you've always longed for, satisfy and recognize poverty Choose disappointment, choose to lose the people you love, as they disappear, a part of you will die with them, until you see the future one day, little by little they will all disappear, you will no longer talk about your own life and death, choose your future, choose life. ”
Twenty years later, the streets are cleaner, and the choices are more expensive.
Twenty years ago, a group of decadent teenagers smoked the hippest drug, heroin, sinking into reality but still retaining hope. Twenty years later, Begby, once fierce like a beast, was also secretly taking a Viagra in the bar toilet.
From the day Redden escaped, it was as if everything was going to get better.
Then you find that everything has changed, just not for the better. Twenty years ago it was so bad, so it can be said that nothing has changed.
When they met again, Diane looked at Redden with a look that was still clear,
Redden still shows a bad smile when he hits the car,
The one with the obstacle was still bloodthirsty and violent, slashing at Redden with a big slash. Or those old yellowed photos, or waiting for the roaring train down the mountain on a cloudy day.
You say that movies are compromising on reality, that they are old. You say they're still smoking heroin lying on the couch watching the ball game eat junk food, full of anger and never compromise.
I said they compromised and didn't compromise.
The days when the four teenagers of Edinburgh, angry and spoke the hopelessly rotten English of Irish flavor, would not pass. Wrinkles climbed up the corners of their eyes and foreheads, and they still hadn't become wise and mature old men.
Veronica said, "The past was the most important thing to lose, but you lived on them, and you loved each other deeply." ”
There are too many important things in life to choose, no way to choose the years of twenty years ago, no way to choose parents, no way to choose who to fall in love with, no way to choose who to spend youth with.
We still don't get what we want to choose, and we don't have a better life. But really to this point, all this does not seem to be as bad as imagined.
Just as if Redden hadn't brought the sixteen thousand pounds twenty years ago, the remaining three wouldn't have been better.
Veronica
I didn't like veronica in the first act of the new girl Veronica.1
It was supposed to be a reunion and revelry of four Edinburgh teenagers, but she showed up and connected the four of them.
By what is she?
Maybe only she, without her involvement in the past, could balance it all. She steers Potatoes captivated with words, and she makes the sick boy who faced her dead son twenty years ago and could only cowardly and tearfully say firmly: "i loved her." Her inquiry made Redden reluctantly admit that "chose life" had changed, and even because she begbee almost hanged Redden.
"There's not even food in the house, no relatives, no money," she said. ”
Redden asked her, "What's in the house?" ”
"Emotional belonging."
So Redden could only come back, even if he wasn't full of guilt.
Even if there had been a time machine, back in the morning twenty years ago, he would still have gone high with sixteen thousand pounds.
He came back only because, only here, can it be called "home".
"First there is opportunity, then there is betrayal." The betrayal of 20 years ago still did not prevent another cooperation 20 years later. Veronica's appearance seems to have given hope to the Edinburgh teenagers, yet she took all the money with her.
Her arrival brought hope and love. She left again, swindling all the money.
I didn't like Veronica from the first shot she appeared. Yes, I don't believe that anyone's presence can save another person's soul and life.
A hundred thousand pounds, you cheated away, anyway, we had nothing. If you want to cry, cry, feel free, anyway, I don't believe it anyway. If you want to go, feel free to go, anyway, I have already decided not to go back.
run!!
Twenty years ago, the first shot of "Guess the Train" was running, and twenty years later, running still runs through the film.
After watching more remakes and sequels, I didn't expect much from "Guess the Train 2". When I saw the last scene, the miserable green room roared past like a train, and I was still touched in my heart in addition to shock.
It's still "Guess the Train" from twenty years ago.
Redden was hit by a car again and fell to the ground in the same run, and he got up and smiled at the owner of the car with the same bad smile as he did twenty years ago.
The wrinkled cheeks are still full of spirits.
The liquid that potatoes spit out when they commit suicide is even as disgusting as shit pulled on a sheet twenty years ago.
When Redden sat on the psychedelic toilet, I even thought he would jump off the next shot. Yet he just pressed his phone bored.
Twenty years ago, the old terrier was played with new ideas and deep meanings, as well as feelings.
Twenty years ago they were scrap wood, and twenty years later when the sauna shop owners asked, "Are you a loser?" At that time, the sick boy could only say, "You may be very right, sir." ”
After watching their indomitable and helpless midlife crisis, we still have to continue to step into the cycle of "choosing life".
When "Potato" believes in Redden's evil, stumbles out of the boxing room in frustration, and watches his silly self run past his silly self 20 years ago, we find that they and we have grown up.
Then move on to choose life and continue to be disappointed.
First there is an opportunity, and then there is betrayal
This sentence almost sums up the storyline of the two films.
Twenty years ago, Potato foolishly followed three people, going to jail alone, while those around him were celebrating Redden's acquittal.
Twenty years later, he still smoked heroin and was rejected by his wife; twenty years ago, Before leaving, Redden pressed his index finger to his lips, signaling him to silence, and he could only open his eyes in pain and tears;
Twenty years ago, Bergbi threw the glass from the second floor in anger, and twenty years ago he saw his father in the street who had fallen into ruin, and twenty years later he said to his son who graduated from college: "That drunkard is my father, and this fool is your father." Good luck, son. ”
Twenty years later, Redden called Potato to punch, and after he found it inappropriate for him, he devoted himself to writing.
"Who's going to read what you write?" Bergbi asked
"I don't know, maybe it's my great-granddaughter."
Bergby read it and said, "You have potential talent. ”
Twenty years ago, Redden did not treat his mother well, and twenty years later he will finally hug his father.
No matter how stubborn the compromise is, it cannot be stuck to the end, and what cannot be forgotten should not be forgotten.
First there was an opportunity, then there was acquaintance, there was running, there was drug, there was love, there was longing, there was fear, there was desire... Then there was betrayal.
They are still the group of wasters, and inevitably there is a compromise, but the anger in their bones has not been thwarted.
They are no longer the spirited and lawless teenagers of twenty years ago, nor the wise, mature, serene and calm old people they should be twenty years later.
When I was younger, I just wanted to be myself. Twenty years later, they are still themselves. They still haven't compromised on everything.
20 years ago, drugs were the new trend. 20 years later, Edinburgh teenagers found a new drug alternative called "post-adolescence".
Life whistles through like the last tragic green shot, they are no longer teenagers, nor have they grown into adults, or they are themselves.