Once NEVERLAND

Monroe 2022-01-05 08:02:28

Under the director's lens, the "normal" towns and the "normal" people are all black and weird in ancient times; they live a constant life day after day. Is it because life is dull and weird, or because we find things boring?
JUSTINE is also one of them.
Unlike other people who consciously or unconsciously accept the dull sorrow of life, there are more women in this age of 30 who have been married for seven years but have no children. Secretly hope that there is something that can save myself from this calm and suffocating "normal".
Until one day, a new cashier came to the supermarket where she worked.

The 22-year-old boy wore an old supermarket vest, short hair that was messy in the dark, thin lips pouted slightly like a girl, and his drooping eyes were dark and melancholy.
He held a yellowed book of The Catcher in the Rye anytime and anywhere, and read it with gusto, even though he had read it thousands of times before.
He even changed his name to HOLDEN the Rye Catcher.

He also has the same cynical cynicism as the Rye Catcher, angering the world's ignorance of him. The big gray-blue eyes of a puppy always reveal the fragility of craving; a Cambridge-style decadence, soft and sad as seaweed.
His complaints are innocent and charming, and the little stories he writes are extremely boring and cute.
After a long time she did not know, ".... i realize then that holden was at best, a child, and at worst, a demon." (HOLDEN, it is well-behaved child, it is a bad devil.)

Two lonely soul , Two hearts that reject the ordinary.
How natural is it to go from knowing each other to falling in love!
They rely on each other to build a beautiful alienated land in their dreams. But I don't know that what they have in common is only the small part of the overlap of their respective dreams.

Once, she thought she had found true love, but sadly realized that it was just a glimmer in the dark, fleeting. She didn't have the courage to chase dreams, she could only despicably choose the former in the stable reality and the unknowable bright future.
Once, he thought he had found the same kind, but he didn't know how to learn how to grow up. No matter how unrestrained and self-willed to resist, his bloody wholeheartedness was defeated by the reality of "normal", and only the eyes of the old MOTEL bed were insatiable.
Was it unwilling or puzzled?

This past cheating ? , Absurd and realistic; how cruel the price of growing up is.

JUSTINE's monologue at the end of the movie is more lifeless than at the beginning of the movie.
Her eyes in the close-up shot are more hollow than his story.


PS, Xiao J is here The shape inside is sloppy and neurotic. I don’t think it looks very good at the first time. Who knows that he’s not handsome inside and who is anxious when I watch it twice. Who dares to say that he is not handsome in it and who is anxious. But JAKE is also true. He was very good at acting. At the age of 22, he could actually perform this tragic character with a strong black humor. The sex scene with JENNIFER was actually the first time on JAKE's screen. No wonder she joked at the awards ceremony and said that she would not mind being his MS. Robinson .

PPS, it seems that English needs to be strengthened.. When I first watched the film, I didn’t even notice any of the laughs... but HOLDEN couldn’t help but burst into tears when he died... This is a movie that can only be understood after watching more than two times. ...It may also be that I am too stupid... (Crazy INDIE MOVIE!!) After seeing JAKE being pushed off the car by JENNIFER, he said pitifully: "I don't want to share you with other men, one can still accept it. , But not a bunch of..." I'm not kind, D grinned..

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  • Glen 2022-04-23 07:03:21

    A not-so-good salute to Catcher in the Rye.

  • Andy 2022-04-23 07:03:21

    I feel that Jen tends to follow the script that describes the moral dilemma. Watching Justin make each decision one by one is cruel and brave. The comprehensive treatment of the whole film is very lonely and depressing, but this couple with many problems has become the last bit of warmth.

The Good Girl quotes

  • Justine: Oh, who gives a shit! Who needs a fucken baby anyway, you wanna make your self useful around here, why dont you get that goddamn tv fixed?

    Phil Last: What the hell?

    Justine: It sounds like a helicopter is landing in here!

  • Jack Field, Your Store Manager: Life goes on, and so should we.