A tear-jerking high-scoring film "Crocodile Wave Shoes Go to the End of the World", won the Most Popular Film Award and the Best Child Star Performance Award at the 1995 Children's Film Festival, with a Douban score of 9.1, this film is sincere and evocative.
This film was also translated as "The World of True Feelings". It tells the story of the friendship between Eric, a boy with a reclusive personality, and Dest, a boy who contracts AIDS because of medical malpractice. Destin was treated like a monster and rejected by everyone. Eric, on the other hand, had a similar temperament to him, so he broke through all the visible and invisible barriers, made friends with Destin, and tried everything to cure him. In the end, it did not save Dester's life. The last shoe pushes the film to its climax because that shoe symbolizes their friendship and companionship. Symbolizes the path they have traveled together.
The adult world is a complex, hypocritical, selfish world. And in the heart of a teenager is a world of love, innocence, and selflessness. It's not that adults don't want to go back to their teenage years, it's just that they don't have the courage to do so, and the estrangement and hypocrisy between them make it impossible for them to go back to that innocent era.
The film contrasts the hypocrisy and complexity of the adult world with the pure and sincere friendship between teenagers. Strike straight into the heart, bring everyone into it, and cleanse the hearts of every audience.
Brad Lanfro, who starred in the film as the lonely boy Eric, died in January 2008. This film is like the true color of his short life. He was a bad boy in the eyes of others, but his lonely heart was never understood. Deste was luckier than he was, and was accompanied by Eric on his final journey. But Brad Lanfrough is a troubled teenager that no one understands. He took drugs, stole, drunk driving, and perhaps protested against the world in which he lived.
And the dead Destin in the film is a different way of growing up. Joseph Mezzero later became a handsome and sunny Hollywood star, starring in many blockbusters and achieving many achievements.
The difference between the characters in the movie and the reality has to make me sigh, how you treat the world, the world will treat you.
Let's walk into this movie together, let's also enter the world of teenagers.
Not to do unattainable dreams, which makes my sleep peaceful, avoids the overheated friendship when there is nothing to do, which makes me less burdened and committed, not to say unnecessary gossip, which makes me feel clear, I try not to remember the past, because the road to come can not turn back, I be careful to love others, so that it will not flood, I love to cry when I cry, I love to laugh when I laugh, I do not seek depth, only seek simplicity. - Sanmao
The heart of a teenager is simple and innocent, and what they do is what they think in their hearts. Just like Sanmao said, I love to cry when I cry, I love to laugh when I laugh, I don't seek profoundness, only simplicity.
Eric doesn't like to disguise, and his loneliness and difficulty with getting along don't need to be disguised. So, he had no friends, he felt lonely.
Destin was new to live next door to Eric, and although he wanted to make friends with his peers, he was not accepted. Because he was unfortunate enough to contract HIV during a blood transfusion. Everyone treated him like a monster, far away from him, and in order to protect him, his mother would not let him go out, and he could only play in the yard by himself.
So the two men chatted across the fence. They are peers and share common ideas and topics. Chatting and chatting become friends.
Eric climbed over the fence and played with Durst. Their proximity to each other deepened their mutual affection. Dester told Eric about himself, and Eric spoke from his heart. They had a great conversation.
There is no distance between each other's unguarded hearts, a word, a look will appreciate each other's sincerity, no need for hypocrisy, no need to hide. The distance of the mind can be infinitely farther or infinitely closer. Like these two naïve children, fences and rumors can't stop their distance.
Eric takes Durst to the supermarket to buy candy and other delicious food. They sat on rafts and went down the river. Encountering unfriendly children on the road, Eric stepped forward to protect Destin. When chased, the scene where Eric pushes the shopping cart and carries Thester downhill to the donkey is very touching. Although I was not accepted, I was still a crazy teenager.
Friendship is genuinely for the sake of one's friends, just as Eric worries about Durst's illness.
Eric tried everything he could to cure Destin's illness, he took a lot of herbs, boiled soup for Destin to drink, and recorded each plant, although it was difficult to drink, but Destin was very cooperative. This laughable scene can't be laughed at all.
His mother enrolled him in summer camp and wanted to separate him from Destin. But he sneaked up on Destin in the wee hours of the morning. The two set off together to find a new cure for AIDS at Eric's dad's place.
They were still sitting on rafts and down the river, but still too slowly. I had to take someone else's boat. On the boat, Dester woke up in the middle of the night in pain, covered in sweat. Eric then changed his clothes to Destin and gave himself a quilt for Destin. And put his shoes to Sleep with Destin in his arms, saying that he would always accompany Destin and let him not be afraid.
When a person does not dislike you, when he really thinks about you and cares about you, that is pure friendship, because he wants you to be all right.
The owner of the ship rested halfway and delayed the time. Eric stole the shipowner's money, and the two continued on their way. But being chased by the owner of the ship, it was Destin who protected Eric, who cut his hand with a knife, saying that he had HIV and scared the owner away. But Durst was physically exhausted, and with the medicine he had finished eating, he fainted. Eric had no choice but to call Deste's mother to pick them up and take them to the hospital.
In the hospital, Eric often accompanied Destin. They play pranks on the doctors to make the atmosphere seem less dull. But during the last game, Destin did not wake up, he was gone, walking peacefully.
In Durst's last days, he had a happy life. Eric gave him a lot of hope and touch. The friendship between them is simple. They disregard the world's eyes, make friends according to their own inner preferences, and do what they can think of. And these are the emotions that cannot be found in the adult world.
The contradiction of the whole film is actually very simple, that is, everyone's rejection of Destin. And Eric's mom is their representative. In the 1990s, people's understanding of AIDS was not so comprehensive, so it was a bit of a tiger color change. Eric's mother did everything in her power to prevent Eric from contacting Destin.
Most of the townspeople discriminated against Ander and treated him like a monster. This malice is the most chilling.
Even the nurses in the hospital ignored Destin's feelings and said cold words, even though they were telling the truth. But there is no sympathy or love.
Because all their starting points are their own interests and security. And Destin and mom, who need to understand and comfort the most, can only get goodwill from Eric.
These uncomfortable but powerless realities contrast sharply with the children's open, simple and friendly hearts, and reproduce the selfishness of human nature.
One day we will all have to leave this world alone, and I hope that by then you will remember the days when you were with me.
Crocodile Shoes Walk the World is a 1995 children's film about friendship and life and death by director Peter Horton. The film is fresh and timeless, like a poem full of charm.
After watching this movie, I couldn't help but think of a line from "Walk With Me" that "I have not made such good friends as when I was 12 years old." As we slowly grow and mature, everything in our childhood drifts away, and it is no longer possible to obtain the pure friendship of childhood.
When we were young, we could only stay in a small range, but we could find our best friends, and when we grew up, we walked the world and rubbed shoulders with thousands of people, but it was difficult to find a similar soul.
Perhaps, as someone said, we are born lonely, either lonely in loneliness or lonely in the crowd. Life is destined to be like this, and some things are destined to be lost.
The innocence and beauty of childhood is a beautiful scenery that we deserve to remember for a lifetime. As someone said, happy people heal their whole lives with childhood, and unfortunate people heal their childhood with a lifetime.
As time passes, our former friends are slowly dispersed, and some will never see each other again in their lifetime. And our friendship stays at the origin of our memories. Man is no longer the person of that time, and love is only the love of the time.