Seneca said: "If a person does not know where he is heading, then any wind is not a good wind." In the German film "Oh Boy" Nick Fisher, a big boy in his twenties, seems to be such a young man who has lost his way. He has dropped out of school for two years, and he is "doing nothing" all day, and the reason he dropped out of the law department is just to "think about life." ”, at an age when most people have made clear their goals in this life, he is still lost. It seems like a late bloomer, but it is actually a deep worry...
This director Jan Ole Gerst’s screen debut, It has won a number of awards in Germany and caused quite a stir in the film industry. In addition to its own performance characteristics, this film has more distinctive features, such as calm and composed black and white pictures, lazy and sad jazz soundtrack, borrowing various The emotions extended by the props, etc. The reason why it is so successful is probably related to the timing of its appearance.
The global economic downturn has entered N years, and the European debt crisis seems to be shrouded in a cloud over the euro area, while Germany, the backbone of Europe, has gradually been forced to bear some heavy loads in this unpredictable change, and is under pressure. People are generally confused. Nick Fisher, the protagonist of the film, represents the situation of many younger generations. As for Nick's father, the successful businessman who appears in the film, he has a microcosm of the struggling generation in post-war Germany. With a busy life for their families, with a clear purpose and a firm heart, they have no time for emotional elusiveness. The old man who appears at the end of the film is a generation who has experienced war. His narration in the bar, his rants and even his out-of-control roar, and even the sudden situation in which he finally collapsed on the street, all seemed positive to the young Nick. It confronted the stagnation of the past, and those stagnations, in the minds of the younger generation, are stories that are both distant and close, old and new, and Nick's involuntary concern for the old people he has never met seems to imply that the younger generation will eventually bear the burden. take responsibility for yourself.
"Everyone's life is a struggle between freedom and belonging, and that's a narrow path" (Janet Winterson). On this narrow path, Nick, who has a good life, is lost. The film selects a fragment of Mick's lost life. The audience also follows Nick's pace, walks into his life, and understands his day. It is a little loose, a little It's boring, a little bit of poor communication, and a little bit of a sense of loss. And his conversations with different characters formed different auras, but the atmosphere was not very clear. Even if there was occasional humor, it also had a bit of bitterness, just like a cup of coffee...
Because of his role in "Hitler's Boy" Tom Schilling, who will be remembered for the first time, plays Nick, and his performance in this film is naturally simple, giving the image of a young man who is confused about life but still has some ideas. Helpless, he was kind but felt weak, and on this day, all kinds of people who kept appearing around him like lanterns, most of them had unpleasant lives, either the present or the past.
The empty mirror at the end of the film seems to have mixed emotions, as if the big boy's mental journey this day. After dawn the next day, when he finally drank the coffee that he had been struggling with for a whole day and couldn't drink it, and looked out the window, his heart was probably a lot calmer... Not so much that the encounter with the old man at the bar at night stimulated Nick's nerves, but Rather, it is a quantitative change that has been accumulated over a long period of time and is stimulated in a timely manner by a qualitative change.
Hermann Hesse said: "Every day in life, fate is expected in every corner, and every day is easy to happen." Yes, the big boy was just lost, but he did not go to despair , After this day, he will start a new life. After all, he was cut off by his father yesterday, and it is no longer possible for him to wander.
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