The beginning of the film is a large field of wheat that turns blue and green. The teenager in a white shirt is wearing a big headset. Lily Zhou's music is played in the turbulent wheat field, and the teenager is lost in the spell-like singing. The camera switched, accompanied by the sound of tapping the keyboard, subtitles in the form of BBS postings flashed one after another on the black screen.
In the back-and-forth images of the Internet and music, a story called "The Cruel Story of Youth" is about to unfold. This time, Shunji Iwai will tell the boy's most unbearable past in the most beautiful way. The pure picture, the ethereal music and the beautiful face of the young man, but the lurking cruelty and violence are huge and dangerous.
The film's twist begins with Hoshino Mutant.
Thirteen-year-old Hoshino, with excellent grades, a handsome face, and a humble attitude, is like all the legendary top students in Japanese shoujo manga, with a slight autistic tendency in his personality. In the club where he studied kendo, he became close friends with Yuichi Hasumi, who was usually silent. At that time, they practiced together, faced strict kendo teachers together, fought with unfriendly people around them, and lay and chatted together at night... 13-year-olds with invisible wounds, young, weak and quiet , Introverted, and 13-year-old friendship, pure and soft.
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Filia told Qing Mao in Lily Zhou's fan forum:
That year was rosy.
After that, the world turned grey.
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The beginning of the new semester, Hoshino seems to be a completely different person.
In the face of the thorny classmates who are usually unruly and unruly, he broke out.
Hoshino slammed the chair into the other's head with a blank expression, forcing him to take off his clothes and swim naked in the mud pond. At that moment, he smiled happily, but the smile was especially hideous.
In this way, Hoshino seems to have completed the transformation of his "King of Cocoons" overnight.
All the beauty that belongs to youth is still, only cruelty is rising.
When he forced Hasumi to jerk off in front of everyone, when he used nude photos to coerce Shiori to do social assistance, when he instructed his subordinates to rape Kuno, I finally believed that the well-behaved Hoshino had been bathed in destruction. .
The atmosphere of the story becomes more and more heavy, everything seems to be driven by the devil, sin is raging, darkness and despair are overwhelming, and there is no redemption.
Even so, the Hoshino who was invisible to others, the Hoshino who no longer covered his eyes with a hoodie, would still listen to his beloved Lily Zhou day after day in the dark night, and would still hide behind the computer screen and incarnate. As the ID of "Blue Cat", I comforted each other with Filia, who was also suffering and lonely on the forum.
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The blue cat said to Filia, I am in the same pain as you.
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The violent, indifferent, cruel Hoshino, what still cannot break through is the inner core of inherent loneliness. Hidden beneath his icy exterior is a deep despair for life. Can you feel the pain when he finally can't watch his best friend jerking off without resistance? Can you understand the distorted helplessness in his heart when he suddenly returned some of the money he received for the social assistance that Shiori handed over? Feather flying in the warehouse, when the beloved girl who planned and directed by himself was trampled, Hoshino smoking a cigarette silently put on his hat, and he must also be in pain at that moment.
This self-abuse, but also this masturbation.
Hoshino who is divided, Hoshino who puts everyone in danger. In fact, he is the most insecure person in the film. In the end, hurting all the beautiful people and things around you that you love is to hurt yourself. Only by making all the people in this unbelievable youth hurt, can I make myself hurt, so no matter how cruel it is, it is not cruel enough! He is afraid that the beauty of the past will make him soft, he is afraid that the wounds are not deep enough, that he is not cruel enough to himself, he is afraid that he will not feel his existence, and he is afraid that he will face the fact that he relies on The breathing ether is gone! If Hoshino really hates a person, then that person is himself.
Hoshino called out in the deserted green wheat fields, a cry of exhaustion, a cry of hysteria. Until all the call signs were like Munch's famous oil painting, stranded in the throat, made no sound and contorted the soul.
That is the voice of a boy crying for help, God, have you heard it? Or, Lily, did you hear that?
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To survive Lily Zhou bravely. In the forum, Green Cat encouraged Filia like this. In fact, why not encourage him.
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The "Okinawa Trip" in the summer vacation of the thirteen-year-old directly led to the mutation of Hoshino.
The casual teenagers robbed a lot of money by chance, so they can finally put their fantasy of traveling to Okinawa into practice. This part of the film was processed into DV format by Shunji Iwai. The shaky footage, chaotic images, and trivial details enhanced the realism of the event. Gorgeous Girl Guides, white spray, bright flames, ancient legends, and mysterious prophecies all end up being nothing more than a counterpoint to the unsuspecting death that follows.
In psychology, there is a term called "post traumatic stress disorder" (PTSD), which refers to an abnormal mental response to severe stress factors such as trauma. Specifically: those sudden, threatening, or catastrophic life events that lead to delayed onset and long-term persistence of mental disorders in individuals. Hoshino, who played on Chongjin Island, experienced such a terrifying spiritual experience. The inexplicable drowning and the flying tuna with a long mouth as sharp as a sword made Hoshino touch death so close. People on the island said that a person has seven souls in his life, and he has lost two. Next is the smiling college student who was killed in a sudden car accident. He once told Hoshino that "there is a gap between life and death between natural tranquility and terror". So the 14-year-old finally believed that it was the ancient curse that began to come true!
"Since death is so close to us, where is the space for life? The truth is that life is fragile, and no one can escape the fate of being dominated?" Hoshino, bathed in devastating anxiety and fear, was torn apart after the enormous doubt of life forms and the deep despair of death.
Perhaps Hoshino's transformation has deeper roots: a broken family, experiences of being bullied in elementary school, misunderstandings by other classmates at school, jealousy and slander from the outside world. These unwashed wounds followed the young Hoshino all the time. Whether it was transferring to another school, getting better grades, or standing in front of the auditorium speaking on behalf of freshmen, in fact, the deep inferiority in his heart was never healed. Only Lily Zhou, only in Lily Zhou's music, only in music that speaks of life's secret wounds, can he be comforted.
The end of the film.
Before the entrance of Lily Zhou's concert, Hasumi saw the green apple in Hoshino's hand.
It turned out that the blue cat = Hoshino.
When Hoshino raised his ticket high, smashed it, and threw it away, the Coke in Hasumi's hand turned over.
All hope was extinguished, and Hasumi's world completely collapsed.
The concert is over.
And everything should come to an end.
Hasumi shouted the name of Lily Zhou, mixed into the surging crowd and stabbed a cold knife into Hoshino's back.
Hoshino turned his face, and at that moment, the boy's eyes were complicated.
The two youths who cannot be communicated have been infinitely close in the ether world, but the loneliness in their respective souls can never be surpassed.
Lily Zhou is a religion that youth converts to. However, Lily Zhou did not save youth, only herself can save us. Hoshino who fell at the Lily Week concert, this may be the best ending that the director who has carved pessimism into his bones can give, and it is also the most complete redemption for lonely teenagers. If Hoshino knew that it was Filia, who had always given him the strength to live in another world, that finally set him free, he should be grateful. Because the one who finally reached the etheric world deep in his heart was none other than just that: dear Filia.
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