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A [Dog Thirteen] allows the audience to experience the most authentic domestic youth story...
Life and reality tortured the ignorant soul with a smirk, as silent as being drowned in water.
Li Wan's story is not an exception...
Because every child may grow up like this!
Even the United States on the other side of the ocean is still undergoing brutal growth——
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Montana in the 1960s.
Depressed economy, dry and cold climate, frequent wildfires.
The scenery is beautiful, life is hard...
In the face of the harsh environment, Jerry can only maintain a decent salary with a meager salary:
Son Joe has just transferred to a local middle school and needs money everywhere; his wife Jenny stays at home as a full-time wife and needs to pay rent for food and drink...
And the comfort of his own bottle of beer a day.
Jerry works on the golf course, grovelling to customers.
Janet also worked hard to find a part-time job, hoping to share the financial pressure for the family.
All this is seen in the eyes of son Joe...
Although the life is poor, the whole family works hard to maintain the warmth of the family!
But this reluctant little warmth was crushed by the last straw——
Father is unemployed!
The most direct result is that the pot cannot be opened at home.
And Jerry disregarded his wife's objection to join the fire brigade and risked fighting the wildfire for a salary of one dollar an hour. In this way, he left his mother and son for several months...
After Jerry left, Jenny was like an abandoned woman who fell into self-pity and pessimism all day long and ignored her son's life...
She even got into an extramarital affair!
All this is also seen by his son Joe...
The warm family collapsed overnight.
The life of a family is like a derailed train and a sudden wildfire.
The movie [Wild Life] has a "restless" title...
But whether it is the sparsely populated state of Montana in the United States, or the poor life of this family, there is no wave like backwater!
Where is the wildness—
From the perspective of son Joe, the film witnesses the truth of the adult world.
When he has not yet faced the helplessness of life...
The father drank beer and confided to him that he had no face and explained to his mother that he was unemployed.
When he hasn't chosen the path of his life...
His mother forced him to stand in line, and he must persuade his father to give up fighting fires to make money.
He still doesn't know how to empathize, when he's lonely and unbearable...
I saw other men enter the room and climb onto my mother's bed naked!
Sometimes growth is just a momentary thing.
Seeing pictures that you shouldn't see in an instant, understanding words that you don't understand in an instant...
The ignorant Joe stepped into the "wild" adult world like this!
The movie [Wild Life] presents "life as it is" from the perspective of children, with delicate plots, full of emotions, and meaningful...
Such a skilled work is only Paul Dano 's debut!
Paul Dano, who was born in the 80s, appeared on the screen as early as he was a teenager. He played the silent big brother in the classic film [Little Miss Sunshine] ...
Later, he has performed well in movies such as [War and Peace], [The Blood Will Come], and [12 Years a Slave] , especially in the movie [Swiss Army Knife Man] …
He dragged Daniel's "corpse" for nearly 100 minutes in a one-man show.
The success of [Wild Life] is also thanks to one person-
Paul's girlfriend, Zoe Kazan
Zoe, who has acted in TV dramas such as [Oliver Kitteridge] and [People in Love] , may have an innate advantage in screenwriting...
Her grandfather is Ilya Kazan, the screenwriter of [Desire and Street Cars], and her parents are also well-known Hollywood screenwriters, and they come from a family of screenwriters.
Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano
The two work together, and their debut [Wild Life] is naturally super standard!
Not only was it shortlisted for the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, but even fan media such as Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 94% freshness!
In addition, the acting skills of old handsome Jake Gyllenhaal and British actress Carey Mulligan also make this [Wild Life] icing on the cake...
But the most worrying part in the whole film is definitely the little protagonist - Joe
Joe, played by Ed Oxenbold , lets audiences watch a family fall apart in the bleak '60s through his eyes.
only…
We are God's perspective, and He is the inescapable witness!
There are too many details in the film to describe the world in the eyes of a 14-year-old boy:
When Dad will say goodbye to him...
He looked at his departing father at a loss, and even Jerry was reluctant to give him a Goodbye kiss like a child.
But back home...
The mother was sad and unintentional to take care of him, and Joe went to the supermarket to buy and cook by himself.
At this point, he became an adult again.
As the only man in the family, I have to shoulder the responsibility left by my father!
Even if his mother was flirting with other men, he didn't vent his emotions...
Instead, she tried her best to save her mother's dignity.
Jenny takes him to dinner at Mr. Miller's house, and Mr. Miller seduces Jenny to spend the night on the grounds that she can't drive because of drinking...
The atmosphere became awkward and ambiguous, and Joe immediately said alertly:
"I can drive, my dad taught me!"
At that moment, his expression was calm as usual...
But in his eyes, he was clearly crying and shouting to his mother, hoping that she would pull back from the precipice, as if nothing had happened!
Just a month ago.
He is still helping his father with his work and doing his homework under the guidance of his mother...
Just a month later.
A wildfire gave his father a job, but it also burned down his once-complete home.
Like he saw the unstoppable fire in the mountains of Montana...
Desperate Joe decides to run away from home...
However, when he was about to board the bus, it snowed in the sky, and in despair, he instantly raised his brows and ran to the house excitedly...
Because my father said when he left:
When it snows, there is no need to manually put out the fire, and he will go home!
The boyish despair at that moment was instantly swept away by the hope of his father's return.
In his eyes, as long as the father and mother get together again...
Guaranteed to keep this home in perfect condition.
Joe's every move still reveals simplicity and ignorance, but he is eager to do something to solve the complex problems of the adult world!
Joe is often seen running around in the film...
Some critics thought that director Paul paid tribute to Antoine who ran in [Four Hundred Blows] .
Antoine the Running in the movie [Four Hundred Blows]
In my opinion, the tribute may just be an accident.
Joe's running is more like the last effort of a child's heart longing for a complete family. If he doesn't care, the family will really fall apart...
Seeing him running so hard.
From the perspective of God, we helplessly know:
A child, no matter how much he runs, can't escape the crushing reality...
Li Wan in [Dog Thirteen] is stubborn and stubborn.
Joan in [Wild Life] is sensible.
The two seemingly contradictory juvenile personalities are actually their last maintenance of their innocent hearts when facing the invasion of the adult world...
wait when...
The stubborn learned to be sensible, and the sensible became ignorant of the world.
That's when the fire in my heart went out.
How can a child be so obsessive?
In fact, there is a detail in the film that he went to a photo studio to work part-time...
His most common service is the family photo, newly married couples, families with children, family portraits of young and old, people have always praised a happy family...
But why are there still quarrels, domestic violence, divorce, and abandonment?
14-year-old Joe probably still doesn't get it.
Jerry and Janet are still separated, and Joe accepts the reality...
But he wanted to take a photo with his parents.
In front of the camera, Joe smiled happily.
But the parents who were separated on both sides couldn't hold back, tears flooded their eyes...
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