Chapter 7 Movie

Movie ——Characteristics and reflections of growth movies under different cultural backgrounds Movies (regardless of any "school"), like any art form, are the result of creators' works that combine their own inspiration, talent and expressive intentions with the support of the social climate and technical capabilities at the time.Only because of the modernity, flexibility and complexity of its art form, it can extend more attention angles. Growth movies should be said to be a type of movie whose theme involves personal growth experience.According to the general understanding, growth must be related to youth, so most growth movies are movies that describe the state of youth—that’s all.However, apart from some professional film workers, most of the so-called growing-up films are teenagers who have a vanity attitude towards movies and music and have a surging emotion in their hearts.Limited to the scope and intensity of attention of this group of people - to a certain extent, the growing-up movies that have emerged in the modern and contemporary Japanese film industry have won the extreme definition of growing-up movies in the "Film and Television Dictionary" with their more explicit youthful expressions: " Japan’s rise after the 60s, representative figures Nagisa Oshima and Takeshi Kitano. Focus on the growth of Japanese youth under the background of the 60s. For example, "The Cruel Story of Youth", which also refers to the manifestations of drug abuse, murder, and crime in Western society in adolescence. Domestic representatives Edward Yang."

In a nutshell, brutal. The word "cruel" can always appear repeatedly in many movie magazines or amateur movie fans' comments on youth growth movies.This worrisome tendency to criticize misunderstands not only coming-of-age movies, but growing-up itself.The pattern and style of Japanese coming-of-age movies is only a branch type of world coming-of-age movies, and only one aspect of the growing-up motif.Strictly speaking, the author believes that apart from cruel drug use, cruel compensated dating, cruel rock and roll, cruel killing or being killed or suicide... there must be more definitions and angles of growth that deserve attention and description.Since it is said that growth is a process of socialization of youth individuals, then who can say that "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" is not a growth movie.According to materialist dialectics, since growth "should" express some kind of pain, then the relative "pleasure" also "should" be expressed.

Naturally, not all movies with faces of young children are called growing-up movies (for example, "Red Cherry" should not be counted in the category of growing-up movies, and "Yesterday", which truly reflects the experience of older youths in drug rehabilitation, can also be called a growth movie with a very grown-up attitude. Included in the category of growing-up movies), but the definition of growing-up movies should not be so narrow. Based on this, after correcting such an extreme definition, we should rationally observe the so-called growing up movies under different geographical and cultural backgrounds according to different geographical and cultural backgrounds, so as to objectively obtain its inherent characteristics and the moral refraction of the parental environment.Next, the author briefly talks about some personal views.