"The Island of Rivers" is a Taiwanese small-budget film, funded and filmed by Taiwan's public television station. The film won the Best Actor Award at the 11th First Youth Film Festival and the Best Actress at the 19th Taipei Film Festival. The film had been hyped up before, but it certainly didn't get a chance to be on the big screen, but it had been screened in many places.
The story tells that a single mother at a toll booth, Gavin, lives alone with her son, the economy is very poor, the son and the female classmates in the class fell in love early in love to steal the forbidden fruit, and were discovered by the father of the female classmates and claimed 800,000 yuan from Gavin for "rape". At this time, just in time for the toll booth to be demolished, Jiawen was desperate, looking for Zhihao, a freight driver who often flirted with her at the toll booth, to borrow money, and finally reached an agreement with the two of them to sleep with 10,000 yuan at a time, but gradually they did not know each other whether this was a transaction or a love.
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The love of children vs the love of adults
His son Fu Yanchao felt that he and his female classmates were in love and thought it was love, but the female classmate's father thought it was "rape". A teenage love affair instantly becomes dirty in the face of the laws of the adult world. Interestingly, under the pressure of her father, the female classmate told Fu Yanchao: We are all still young, and I don't know what love is. This sentence made Fu Yanchao's sentence "I love Liya, Liya also loves me, why can't we be together?" The questioning became childish and ridiculous, and the consequences of early love were passed on to his mother.
On the one hand, sending his son to an early education center, on the other hand, the 800,000 that could not be taken out at all, Jiawen was in a desperate situation. She roared around like a trapped beast, and finally had to get herself entangled with the freight driver, only he was willing to lend her money. The beginning of the relationship was not a pure money transaction between prostitutes and prostitutes, the freight driver Zhihao thought they were in love, although he had to give Gavin ten thousand yuan each time, he felt that love was the main thing, and giving money was just Gavin's request.
From the beginning, Gavin exchanged his body for money, and then gradually began to waver under the care of Zhihao. There were a few times when they tranced into each other and felt like a family, but when Zhihao's brother stopped giving him money, their relationship was in Gavin's sentence "Do you really think you're his dad?" "Back to reality, all the warm pulses are just an illusion, and the relationship is so fragile that a single sentence can make it break up in an instant."
Zhihao's self-righteous love is not worth mentioning in the face of Gavin's survival dilemma, and the way he appears is so multiplying, although there is warmth, but how can the doomed wrong beginning resist the cold reality? The love that Gavin felt in hindsight made her think she had found hope, but the toll without poetry told her that her hopes were dashed, and the once dismissive jokes were now love keepsakes, and it turned out that love had really come, but it was short-lived. She missed love between hesitation and anger, but with such a humble beginning, how dare she hope that there will really be love?
Children's cut-out of love in exchange for a "rape", adult money and color transactions, mutual suspicion and hesitation have produced love, I have to say that the setting of this story is particularly ironic, the purity of love no one feels that it is love, mixed with survival and venting love but let people see the truth, although it is not pure, but also fragile and vulnerable.
At the end of the film, the mother and son sit together with soda, and Gavin smiles and turns to his son and asks: Is Leah really beautiful? The son was expressionless and did not answer, but he did not push away his mother's hand again.
So: Who deserves to say love?
Maybe what the director said is: everyone is entitled to love, but love is never pure.
Teenagers who encounter love vs adults who long to be loved
The teenager Fu Yan encountered love earlier than earlier, but this love brought him a disaster, but he refused to admit it for a long time, still immersed in the love he thought, and the consequence was borne by his mother.
Wang Zhihao still lived with his brother after he became an adult, and in his early years he had no parents, and his eldest brother was like his father. The brother manages him like a child, he looks cynical and unscrupulous, but in front of Fu Yanchao, he has become a qualified adult: he will let Fu Yanchao wash his hands before eating, wait for his mother to eat together, and drive to help him chase his girlfriend... He watched Fu Yanchao finally realize that he was stubbornly crying after he lost love, and he also cried, although he always looked improper, but his heart was as sincere as a child.
He had long liked Gavin, and every time he had to write a poem on the fare, it was his confession. He also knew that Gavin was with him because of the money, but he thought they were really in love. When he tells Gavin that he has no money but can work it out with her, he is serious.
But that fragile relationship didn't give him a chance.
Interestingly, Fu Yanchao and Wang Zhihao both think that they are in love, while the other party does not think that it is love, the female classmates do not know, and the mother does not dare to believe it. So love for them, in fact, is a luxury for everyone, too early and too late.
Maybe for everyone, love is the timing.
The film is called "Island of Rivers", which means that on the highway where the river flows endlessly, the toll stations one by one are like isolated islands, alluding to the fact that each of us is an island, and love cannot come in or out. In addition, the background of this film is that Taiwan's toll booths have been banned, toll collectors are facing the dilemma of layoffs, and survival has become a problem. The director focuses on this group of vulnerable groups, showing how they struggle to survive.
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