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Poster “Never, rarely, sometimes, always”
At the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, which ended in early March, a work that was not “surprising” from plot to line-up stood out and won the Jury Prize for the Silver Bear Grand Prix, which is also Its director Eliza Hitman (Eliza Hittman), after being nominated for the Locarno International Film Festival 2017, once again entered the Type A International Film Festival and won the award for the youth film that has always been dedicated. This “never, rarely, always, always” movie made up of four parallel adverbs is hard to remember for a while, and there is also a suspicion of playing with the text, but after watching the movie, I have to admit, So simple and powerful. Live, because these four words are the highest female repetition rate word combination sequence in the entire movie. Powerful, because every word you choose to use is a degree, and after each degree, it will make people match their turning points in life.
Eight Callahan, a 17-year-old girl who lives in a small town in Pennsylvania, USA. She has an independent personality and went to the clinic alone after many days of physical discomfort and was told that she was pregnant. After taking medications, hitting the abdomen, and other miscarriages, the family, accompanied by Cousin Skyley, went to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York for surgery. The film tells of the unknown interstate journey between the two girls.
Two songs from Aoqiu.
At the beginning of the film, at the student party, Ouqiu was singing inexpressively with his guitar on his back: “He forced me to do things I didn’t want to do … But he always gave up because I loved him. I couldn’t help but listen to him.” The close-up on the page conveys the teenager’s ignorant and confused feelings about love. While singing in her song, she is painful and resilient, but she cannot break free, which is also buried in her life after a little life. Omen.
At the end of the movie, Ou Qiu and his cousin and the boy he met on the road sang on KTV. At this time, Ou Qiu has completed the preparations before the operation, and the next day he will remove the large stone from his heart. She sang, “Your heart may be broken tonight, but tomorrow morning it will be lukewarm.” Compared to the confusion and helplessness at the beginning of the opening chapter, Ou Qiu and his cousin felt a kind of life in the past when the sad journey of the two people was about to end. New hope never seen before. This hope comes from coexistence with the cousin during all the muddy heat of life, but also from the sincere acceptance of his life experience and difficult decision making.
Four degree adverbs
“Never, rarely, sometimes, always” These four words at first sight are full of charm of literary temperament, but for Ou Qiu, it is an index that reveals his life experience, but also some from start to finish. The girl who showed emotional fluctuation completely defeated the weapon. Ou Qiu in the movie even pretended to be calm when he found out that she was pregnant. Even without anesthesia, no tears were shed when he used a clip to pierce his nose through his nose. But in accepting the staff’s routine question before the operation, the four options given to the other party’s question were “never, rarely, sometimes, always”, when his answer changed somewhat from “never” when ” always, “the cold girl who had never responded to any humiliation at school, family, or the supermarket from work can no longer be as harsh as she was, from hesitant silence to tears, and finally held on tightly. Social. Corresponding to these options are a number of private personal security issues about sexual history and the history of victimization, such as “have you been forced” and “been subjected to violence”? The film did not provide for Ou Qiu’s emotions to fly from here, nor did it continue to develop, to portray the existence of this violent man behind Ou Qiu, and did not reproduce the “tragedy” in our experience. Through some questions and answers, Ou Qiu’s experience behind him can easily be related to the audience, and “Who is the perpetrator? Why is it violence?” It seems that it is no longer the focus of attention, it reminds us There is not a single Auqiu, and there is not a single perpetrator. These multiple-choice questions are asked by all the women who enter this rescue alliance, and among them, perhaps not only Aoqiu chooses “always”. This is the climax of the entire story and the writer’s (and director’s) most successful narrative.
Opposite men
Although the “father of the child” does not appear in the film, this easy-to-resent abuser, the male characters who appear intentionally in various films appear to be the opposite of Oqiu and even the entire girl group without exception. .
Male students the same age as Aoqiu will humiliate her with dirty words or actions; Aoqiu’s father, who needs the care of a wife in life like a giant baby, is also an expert in language violence in the home, and does not love or respect his wife and daughter; Aoqiu and cousin At the functioning supermarket, the middle-aged male customer who checked in was a greasy man who was talking to his cousin; the supermarket manager was a careless man who would take advantage of the oil when checking in at the checkout; a well-dressed male passenger appeared on the night shift subway in New York; The boys of the same age who met by chance on the bus seemed cheerful and enthusiastic, but when they finally agreed to lend them money, they didn’t forget to take advantage of their precious cousins. Although these male figures are not difficult to find a partner in real life, they all appear in the network of the fixed life circle and Ouqiu’s deliberately suspected maneuvering journey. It is difficult to say whether this is the male world in the eyes of the protagonist Ou Qiu, or the male world in the eyes of Hitman as director, but fortunately these men are more of a solidified symbol and do not directly participate and influence the narrative itself. , otherwise in Once feminism is excessively grafted into a youth film, it is hard not to be criticized.
A warm moment
Cousin Skylare is kind and beautiful. After learning that Ochou’s decision to go to New York, he took a risk and stole money from the accounts on Supermarket Labor Day to support him. On this journey through the state, he also took the hard work of dragging the suitcase to the end, making her relax and cute as Oqiu changed magic before surgery. Still, under the tremendous psychological pressure of being shy and hungry in the bag, staying at the night station and being in a strange metropolis full of potential dangers, the two close sisters who were smart in the past inevitably had a verbal dispute. Leave. But they did not move away from each other. Aoqiu found Skelly who was wearing makeup in the station desert, and didn’t forget that Smelly was putting on her makeup. She looked dumb and had no extra line. Skelly took Aoqiu’s lips and carefully applied her lip gloss. The two are reconciled as before, and spreading is the easiest and most effective way to save teenage girls’ beauty.
To offset the costs of returning home, Skyley reluctantly went out with the boy she met on the road to get money for a long time, and Ouqiu took to the streets. Finally, he saw on the platform that they were kissing him, but he did not resist because he wanted to borrow money. Skylare silently extended her little finger, avoiding the circular spine Skylare leaned into, and firmly hooked her finger, promising “I’m here to accompany you.” Even the closest girlfriends inevitably have fights. If you hate it at that moment, it will become a warm moment of interdependence at this moment. These casual rehearsals give the slightly cool story a proper warmth, and this is also the most memorable moment in cruel youth history.
Like most female directors, Hitman naturally has delicate emotional tentacles, but the commendable value lies in the coldness and temperance over his sensitivity, making the film sad and not sad in terms of emotional expression, and also can show the flower of hope in despair. Compared to chaos, strife, disappointment, and barrenness, this is more in line with the essence of youthful freedom in the dark night swamp, and occasionally you can also look up and see the warm morning light . In mirror language processing, there is not too much carving and decoration, and some places are even “inattentive,” which creates the authenticity of semi-documentary films, and is more in line with the harsh, natural nature of the films. youth theme. The stories told in the play may be happening around us every day; the unexpected collapse in youth has no country or gender, and is everywhere; this time, there is a cold and warm concern, it is called “never, rarely, sometimes, always”. Dayu
[[[[Publisher: Zhang Xiaorong ]
