He's just a poor kid

Letha 2022-12-17 17:06:41

After reading it, I can't help but wonder, how do we feel that this boy is out of tune with the surrounding environment? This most obvious conflict is not only reflected in the boy's resistance to the teacher, Samantha, and even physical conflict (this is the most apparent, concrete, and substantive display of images for the audience). At the technical level, Let's take a look at how the Darney brothers created a sense of isolation between the boy and the outside world:

1. At the beginning of the film, when the cast and crew are still playing on the screen, the film begins to create a dream - our ears have already heard many teenagers playing and playing together, full of youthful and energetic playful sounds. . But when the first frame of the story came, we knew that the director had confused us:

There is only one seemingly unhappy child in the frame

This opened a huge gap between the boy and his peers. The sounds that were so sweet in our heads were so noisy in his ears. He couldn't be like his peers, there was already an invisible wall between them.

2. Photography is very interesting. Dane repeatedly used fixed-camera wrap-around long shots in the film of less than an hour and a half, which added a layer of "bystander" to the camera, as if the camera was an indifferent and emotionless person. The "third person" who witnessed all this, but always kept a wait-and-see attitude. In this gesture, it conveys the story to the audience without any emotion.

3. In addition, the Darney brothers always keep the boy absolutely central in the mirror when framing the scene. And deliberately let the group portraits in the camera become more and less with the boy's emotional ups and downs.

Boy gets along well with Samantha

At this time, the boy was in the crowd, and his distance from the world was narrowed.

Father tells the truth

The climax of the first act, the beginning of the second. The boy suffered a major blow. He could see that there was no one on the street, but he was alone. The world was cold and unfamiliar to him.

Boys' contact with peers

For the first time, the boy took the initiative to contact his peers through football games, but there was still a barrier that could not be crossed between them.

double betrayal

At the end, the boy was betrayed by the youth of the society and his father (they were equivalent to his spiritual support). At this time, the scene was set at night, and it was clearly seen that only the boy was left running wild on the street to dispel the confusion, sadness and anger in his heart. .

Back to the story, although the story still has the scheming to take the lead in burying the burden of the boy's background, Dane did not choose the most mediocre means - using the actor's mouth to explain with the palest lines, but let the audience In pursuit of the little boy, in the boy's own adventures and explorations again and again, and through the "mouth" of the plot, he told the audience in a eloquent manner.

How abominable he was in the hearts of the audience in the front, when everyone saw him falling from a tree and riding his bike home, all of them sighed with emotion: He was just a poor child.

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The Kid with a Bike quotes

  • Guy Catoul: It's too much. I can't look after him.

  • Wes: May I call you Pitbull?