In '96, Ivan the Leper hadn't been kissed by Nicole Kidman, and Danny Ball hadn't yet become the director of the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, but in that year, four young Scottish men sitting under a desolate ridge with a Scottish English accent did something remarkable.
We are now fully qualified to discuss the cross-era significance of "Guess the Train", and after ten years, Ivan McGregor has become Scotland's most famous actor, Danny Ball won the Oscar, and the four young people have their own directions. Ten years ago, they made drug trafficking their top priority, pornography videos as video tapes, and heroin as keys to heaven. Now, they are reunited, and although the people who originally saw their absurd deeds were thirty and forty, who can forget their crazy deeds, they are like Salinger's wheat field watchmen, or a derivative of Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange".
If you haven't seen "Guess the Train", you just didn't feel empathy during adolescence.
Sorry, I'm not a movie lover.
Of course, in the must-see list of a certain movie fan, "Guess the Train" will come into your sights, just look at the name, you will be curious: train? Could it be that this is an evolutionary history of working people?
There are a few interesting things in film history: there are two boys who have walked with us for ten years, one is Rowling's Harry Potter, and the other is Antoine, who endured "Four Hundred Blows" under Truffaut's lens. There are three girls who make our eyes glaze over, Natalie Portman, who is heartbroken by killer Leon, Jennifer Connery, who is voyeuristically dancing under Once Upon a Time in America, and Sophie Marceau, who was kissed for the first time.
And these four Scottish teenagers, in this country forgotten by Britain, are fascinated by Shanghai Loin, thus launching a reflection on the independent world: the world is changing, music is changing, drugs are changing, I will change, I will change my heart, and I will be a new person.
"Guess the Train" will make people with strong rebellious genes shake their hearts, yes, there are many illusions in this world, but when Ivan the Leper falls in the dirtiest toilet in Scotland, we see the essence of life as much as he does.
It's a film as great as Clockwork Orange and Fight Club, and it's still trendy after more than a decade, and without Train Guess, where would we know how cool it was to choose life. I'm not going to elaborate on the plot of this movie, because it's stupid.
In a barren Scotland, four young people became addicted to drugs, of which Ivan the leper was the most serious, and later experienced the imprisonment of friends, the death of everyone's "little daughter", and his own drug overdose and hospitalization, before he decided to quit all drug addictions.
The classic line at the beginning jumps out like a montage of fast-paced editing:
Choose life, choose work, choose career, choose family, choose a damn big TV .
Choose washing machine, car, laser record player, electric can opener Choose healthy... Low cholesterol, dentist insurance, choose a mortgage, choose the first building.
Choose your friends, choose casual clothes and suitcases.
Choose a three-piece head suit that pays in installments, choose to do it yourself manually, choose to wake up on Sunday, and don't know which onion you are.
Choose to watch shit TV on the couch while stuffing junk food in your mouth.
Choosing a rotten life to take it to shame people's eyes, lying in the nursing home makes people feel greasy.
Choose the most shameless of things - use your sperm to create selfish little devils to continue the scourge.
Choose the future, choose life.
But why do I have to do that? I choose not to live, I choose others, why? There is no reason. Reasons can't be taken as cool, with heroin, what reasons do you want.
Later, he cut off his so-called brothers, betrayed them, and took all the money, and he asked himself:
Why am I doing this? I can provide tens of thousands of answers, but all of them are wrong. In fact I was meant to be a bad guy, but I'm going to change, I'm changing. It was the last time I would do something like this. I've changed my mind, kept going, kept moving forward, and chosen life. I'm already looking forward to that life. I will be just like you: work, family, big fucking TV set, washing machine, car, laser sound, electric can opener, body care, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, low-cost housing, casual wear, travel bags, three-piece sets, DIY, sports, junk food, children, walking in the park, nine to five, playing golf, washing cars, choosing sweaters, family Christmas, pension tax exemption, cleaning the sewers to live, all the way forward until the day of death.
These two lines have to be mentioned, it is like a bible prayer, always reminding us of what kind of person we want to be.
If you put it in today, "Guess the Train" is still very curious, its MTV-style kaleidoscope editing method opens up our new view of the film, this new group of new human beings are cynical, resistant to the world, but in the end only Ivan the Leper escaped, he slowly walked to the camera, with a cool smile, like a stray animal found the rules and habitat on which he depended.
After "Guess the Train 2" came out, train fans have long been unable to resist their own mood, feelings or novelty, can not replace the status of "Guess the Train" in our hearts. I don't want to talk about "Guess the Train 2" because I see them mature and get older, and after that enthusiasm is diluted by cold water, only the drugs and brotherhood that are played badly are left, but it is still good enough, it is good because of the precipitation of time, and its inadequacy is because the previous game should not be born. Later we learned the meaning of growth, growth is like heroin, more and more intense, until one day you no longer need it, youth will gradually leave you. That kind of nostalgia is sad.
After all, I knew the pain of being infected by Guess the Train in my youth, when I didn't know that Ivan the Leper would become famous in one battle, and I wouldn't think of any interesting dialogue to add to the article. Movies have many forms to explore, life has many possibilities to break through, but drugs do not, this is what "Guess the Train" told me, its unruly no film can replace.