Summer is always a little sour and sweet, it is a cool and delicious ice cream on a hot day, and it is also a sour parting in youth... In a blink of an eye, it's graduation season again, and today we bring you five European and American campus movies to see those ignorant hearts and wanderings on the days without the college entrance examination.
01 壁花少年（2012）the perks of being a wallflower
Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a shy and lonely high school freshman with age-transcendent sensitivity and tear glands, always silently observing family and friends around him, and is a typical "wallflower teenager". His adolescence was full of setbacks, and he experienced various things such as the death of his aunt to buy him a birthday present, the suicide of his best friend, being squeezed and bullied by peers, and unrequited love without responding. However, Charlie is not the most miserable, because there are too many people like him who have been forced into the corner by life. Lucky enough to have an enlightened teacher and two upperclassmen: the rebellious and delicate teenage girl Shan (Emma Watson) and the confident gay boy Patrick (Ezra Miller), who makes Charlie understand that sometimes you can't always watch, you have to be involved in order to have your own excitement.
"Wallflower Boy" is adapted from the best-selling original of the same name, written and directed by author Stephen Kebrowski, and created by the original class producer of "Juno", gathering a group of popular idols after the 90s, writing an inspirational diary dedicated to loser in many sensitive and controversial topics such as suicide, bullying, sexuality, and drugs.
02 Boyhood (2014) boy hood
The film tells the story of a boy growing up from the age of 6 to 18, and director Richard Linklater spent 12 years to complete the work. It carefully depicts the child's growth process and the changes in various aspects of its parents, allowing the audience to experience the traces of the passage of time in detail. In order not to disturb the normal life of the lead actor Ella Salmon, the filming was completed in a short time during his summer vacation.
In the movie, we can see the imprint of time everywhere: the communication devices used by the protagonists, from flip phones to iPhone 4; various video games; the president of the United States from George W. Bush to Obama; the new millennium pop song big skewer-like ost; the car driven by ethan hawke has changed from an antique gto to a new sUV... But the most obvious and most lamentable thing is that the appearance of the character itself has really grown and changed in 12 years, and the shock to the audience is definitely not achievable by the practice of "many years later" and then changing actors.
03 Kissing Booth (2018) the kissing booth
"Kissing Pavilion" is another typical American youth love movie, if you have also been obsessed with "Song and Dance Youth" and "Princess Diary", then you must be familiar with this kind of subject, you must not wait to see it ~ Kissing Pavilion opens to sell welfare, and the male protagonist can carry the whole drama. The plot design is also relatively pure, and there is no plot of cheating abortion at every turn in those youth films that were hot in China a few years ago, and there is no pretentious crying point and tearing drama. The script of this play is probably the diary of the heroine's adolescence, recording the most trivial daily life when she went to school.
The heroine Elle has a close friend Lee who was born at the same time as herself, and their mother is a good girlfriend of more than 20 years of friendship. Both Elle and Lee love to dance, and every year they are looking for the best dance spots in California, they have experienced the death of Elle's mother,losing her illness, and they are around each other at every important moment in their lives, growing up together, without any secrets. Friends who have nothing to say have secrets because of the secret feelings that arise during adolescence. In the face of Lee's ecstasyed brother Flynn, Elle has long begun to secretly have a crush. Flynn is a character of Prince Charming, who has been fighting for a first-class stick since he was a child, helping Elle and Lee to block the little assholes, but he can't help but bully his weak brother. In high school, I loved to drive a motorcycle, release charm, and flirt with my sister everywhere. Lee and Elle, who live completely in the light, have set strict rules that they can't fall in love with my brother!! This is the only contradiction in the whole play, so this Elle's diary is full of details about friendship and love, and these trivial things make the whole film very real.