Chapter 12 American Growth Movie (1)

American Growth Movie (1) Among the American growing-up movies, the "American Pie" series, as a relatively idiotic growing-up movie, is the embodiment of America's hedonistic open culture in adolescence.From the first to the third, more and more nonsense.Describes the efforts of a group of virgins who dream of sex from high school to college. In contrast, "The Graduate", "American Beauty", etc. are much better. Some of them describe the confusion of sex and love in the growth of youth, and some are based on real school shootings. The absurdity of shadowy teens in a sort of dazed vindictiveness also raises the cliché hidden dangers of gun freedom in America.Compared with Hollywood's big-budget movies, American growing-up movies have always been weak.

As the Latin proverb goes, countries without history are happiest. America is happy, and American young people are even happier. The cruel youth phenomena in our eyes, such as drug use and promiscuity, are not so "cruel" in Americans.Restricted by the local cultural background, American growing-up movies do not have much to show the living conditions of the younger generation except for lightly throwing out common problems such as educational crisis, sexual confusion, drug abuse, alienation of humanity, and loss of faith. Deep anxiety or reflection, such as "Boy's Sky", "Poisoned Ivy" and so on; even use it as a subversive flaunt of life values, such as ,, "Velvet Gold Mine", "Myself Idaho, etc. In 1996, there was a movie called "Fox Fire", which was one of the few movies that showed the mentality of adolescent women.The main character, Legs (played by Angelina Jolie), is an androgynous American girl with an "on the road" mentality.She's one of those hitchhikers, people who hitchhike around, driven by this mentality, what she does always brings thrills and adventures to the friends who come into contact with her, and those friends still return to them in the end His own state of life - a peaceful life accumulated by countless small troubles, and Legs will always choose to move on.This kind of very beautiful free and easy life must only be created by Americans. It is hard to imagine that an Iranian director filmed the story of a wandering neutral girl.This is the accurate reflection of growing up movies on the social outlook of the nation.

Peter Weir's "Dead Poets Society" is a very outstanding work in American growing up movies.It tells the story of a very independent and responsible young teacher who comes to a school and fights against the shackles of the school system with the children. His confusing identity as a former member of the Dead Poets Society and his outrageous behavior as a teacher make him face forced resignation. His children acquire integrity and courage.There is a plot in the film that, before the teacher resigned and left, the most timid boy in the class bravely stood on the desk and recited aloud Whitman's poem commemorating the assassination of Lincoln to express his retention: Ah!captain!my captain!

Kimberly Pierce's "Boys Don't Cry" is a gay-themed female film, which also has a high reputation in the world.It reflects the backward and closed thinking of the towns in the middle of the United States and the sad situation of gays, especially lesbians.The protagonist in the film, Tina, is a kind woman who is persistent in love, but suffers bad luck only because of her special sexual orientation, and is finally raped and beaten to death. At the end of the film, she lies on the ground dying in despair, which is shocking.This is a very in-depth work among American growing-up movies. Hilary Swank, who played the tragic girl, won the Oscar for Best Actress last year for "Million Dollar Baby".

To sum up, based on the rejuvenation of the world theme, youth growth movies play a very important role in today's movie themes.Due to the limited level of the author, such a complicated topic is naturally very rough. Due to the lack of understanding of growth films in other regions, the classification does not involve Canada, Australia or Latin America.Although those areas still have wonderful works with great characteristics and refraction significance, such as the Australian movie "Whale Rider" (this movie may not be purely regarded as a growth movie).The resulting errors are naturally inevitable.Please excuse me.

In fact, the state of youth that growth movies can show is limited. Art often requires finding the extraordinary from the ordinary, or finding the ordinary from the extraordinary. Under such a purpose, the youth in most movies, whether it is pain or pleasure, is the impactful imagination and exaggeration fabricated by those adult directors.However, in fact, taking China as an example, 80% of the growth of 80% of the children has been buried in the sea of ​​books and titles in obscurity, and their youth can be expressed in a five-minute black and white animated silent film: a child Doing math problems and doing them all the time...the higher and higher the problems you do, the higher and higher you are, and then you are coaxed to collapse and crush the child to death.This is called cruelty, so cruel that he died without even feeling the pain.