Amarillo, a city in southwest Texas, usa, was founded as a city that contributed 88% of Texas' beef before becoming an industrial city. (The above information comes from Baidu Encyclopedia)
It is worth noting that it was also the only center for the final assembly of the U.S. nuclear bomb.
Here there was a group of young people who grew up in this city, with their feet in a nuclear weapons factory, who had their own understanding of society and war, and put their dissatisfaction into punk rock music.
A lamentable real event happened to them, and now it has been made into a movie and sent to us.
City of Bombs
bomb city
The core event of the film is the dispute between two groups of "social people".
Here is a group of punk youths with exaggerated haircuts, wearing peg jackets, smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, and indulging in rock and roll.
There was a group of high school students, from a wealthy family, with red roots and a love of sports.
A restaurant facilitated their fateful encounter, and the high school boys made a few outcrys and deeply mocked the young men in strange costumes.
The first confrontation ended with a greeting from each other's middle finger and a few times the word beginning with f.
After that, the window of the punk youth "base area" was broken by high school students, and the young people on top went alone to "surround" a group of five big and three thick high school students.
As a result, it was pressed to the ground and rubbed.
With the wounded back to the code people, the two groups officially began the great armageddon.
In the course of the violent conflict, a stunned young high school student drives his father's Cadillac and knocks a punk youth to death.
The evidence was conclusive, but it was reversed by the lawyer.
In response to the definition of punk, the behavior of this group of young people, using preconceived notions, made the jury think that the dead punk youth deserved to die, which was a normal result of his misconduct over the past few years.
The killer was acquitted.
The film says he was killed twice, once during a fight and once in court.
From the perspective of the audience's God, the young man died unjustly, just for his friend to give his life.
The conflict was initially provoked by the murderer's side, who could not bear it before choosing to fight back.
Their punk spirit is also far less terrible than the lawyers say.
On their leather jackets, you can clearly see the word "anti-war", although it is not standard.
The conceptual punk spirit, or figurative punk rock, is really just a cathartic way to express resistance to society and violence.
Along with it is the attitude and way of life that is difficult for the mainstream population to accept, which also leads to the unjust death of the teenager in the film, which is inevitably regrettable.
After watching this film, I can't help but start to reflect: are we like the lawyers in the film, clinging our butts to the chair called "mainstream", and unobstructed prejudice and even persecution to the vulnerable groups of niche culture.
Could it be that the banned "social shake" and "shouting wheat" players are also our victims?
After the dean's careful thinking, he breathed a sigh of relief, and the answer was no.
Defining social shakes and shouts as "Chinese punk" is a very irresponsible behavior. The two may be slightly similar in degree of non-mainstream, but they are fundamentally different.
The punk-style outfit, and this hairstyle, is inevitably reminiscent of the funeral love family.
A few years ago, this wind of funeral love blew throughout the urban-rural junction of all parts of the country.
Later, the society that rose up shook and shouted mai and carried the banner of non-mainstream.
A group of "spirit guys", hijabs, small t-shirts, tight cropped pants are standard.
Follow the very "hi" music, the limbs perform inexplicable movements, you can gain a large number of fans.
There was also a group of people, riding on the east wind of the live broadcast, in front of the microphone with very "hi" music, began to shout Mai.
Most of the keywords of the content are: emperor, immortal, jianghu, grudge, woman, love, etc., it is not difficult to see that these words have a fairly high degree of repetition with those online fantasy and obscenity literature.
These two things that don't look very "tall" can be popular for a while, and the best of them are even richer from it.
Fast Hand's Pai Qi, relying on social shaking, bought a Rolex Green Water Ghost.
Mc Tianyou, who sang the cover of "One Person I Drink drunk", can also soar to nine figures.
Fortunately, now that they are all cold, there is no need to struggle with whether a one-size-fits-all ban is reasonable, and their disappearance is undoubtedly a good thing.
The style of punk youth in the movie may not be worth emulating, but the rebellion and enthusiasm in the punk spirit are worth affirming.
If there is dissatisfaction, it must be vented, there is enthusiasm to shout loudly, young should be vigorous, not angry to call young people?
And the likes of society shaking and shouting wheat, under their superficial passion, are full of speculation and indifference.
It's okay to be dirty, there's nothing wrong with hi, the problem is that the spirit of this culture is not sincere.
The sweat in front of the camera is just for the flow of water on the books.
As soon as there is an opportunity to move closer to the mainstream, they immediately abandon their previous positions.
Our brain capacity is not small, nor is it a culture that we cannot accept.
Just the spiritual core of social shaking and shouting wheat is not enough as a fulcrum of culture, but only a way to make a living and profit.
And it will have a negative impact on teenagers who lack the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, so is it not cool?
Young people need rebellion and enthusiasm to dare to fight and challenge.
Everything we enjoy today is exactly what the older generation fought down when they were young, relying on a fire in their chest.
I hope that today's young people can also hold their own heat and light to create the future, rather than being blinded by some smoke miasma.
<end>