However, these disaster victims who camped near the house of Zhutian all regarded it as their spiritual support for some reason. Middle-aged couples, down-to-earth gangsters, and elderly grandfathers all care about the village like darkness longing for sunshine.
Chazawa, a girl in the same class as Sumita, has a bright smile that seems to light up everything, and special poems are posted all over the room. Her dream is to support each other and spend a lifetime with her beloved, and finally die with a smile. She admired Sumita who was unsmiling, indifferent to everything, and shouted "Ordinary is the best!" in the classroom. She collected Sumita's amazing quotes, followed Sumita to the shipyard with a smile, was pushed away impatiently, beaten and scolded fiercely, but took care of herself. Approach freely.
Compared to Sumita, Chazawa lives in a luxurious villa. His mother is an empty woman who likes to play marbles. He and his father cry in pain while preparing a red gallows for their daughter. , looking forward to helping her daughter die in exchange for the original happiness and passion of a hopeless marriage. When the teenage girl shut herself in a room to escape her perverted mother, her only salvation apart from tears was to read those unique verses aloud with earphones, drowning herself in it.
I happened to be let down by a bunch of scumbags and scumbags. I'm not a scumbag, and I will never become a scumbag like you. Sumita yelled at the underworld boss who came to his father to collect debts, and was beaten into the mud. The beginning that life gave him was a life crawling in the mud. His face soaked in the repeated torture of life was expressionless. Lifeless, and the teenager did not intend to give up the dignity of being a human being.
Let's talk about the five-character sentence, the seven-character sentence together, I say one sentence, you say one sentence, and whoever can't speak, slaps whoever. Start now. This is a game initiated by Cha Ze, she stood in front of Sumita's house, smiled and said a five-character sentence, then said a seven-character sentence, slapped her face on the face of Sumita, and Sumita turned around. Participate in the game, and slap back with more force. There are many ways to approach a person, I know this is the only way for me to rely.
I know that
flies fall into the milk,
black and white at a glance.
I know it too, I know it all.
I know my identity by the way I dress, and
I know that too.
I know the weather is good or bad.
I know it all.
I know that apples can be identified by seeing an apple tree.
The diligent and the lazy can see at a glance that
everything is clear to them,
except for themselves.
The lifeless Sumita became an extraordinary existence in Cha Ze's eyes. In the heavy rain, he shouted out those inexplicable verses to the impatient Sumita. When he was angry, he picked up the stone and put it in his pocket and vowed that when it was full, it would definitely hit him. The existence of Sumita, for Chazawa, was her last hope, just like those verses. "Are flowers so good? Although the only flower in the world, there are also flowers that grow in the deep mountains and forests, and are not seen by anyone. They bloom and wither alone. They are not all flowers that are planted in flower beds and placed in vases for people to watch. Do you work hard to bloom with a dream?" Not everyone's life is surrounded by flowers and sunshine, and each of us is different from birth.
Home is where AIDS grows, but for some, a noose from hell stretches out from the floor of the home, holding a person's past, present, and future tightly. On a rainy night, the beating and cursing of Sumita by his tyrannical father made Sumita unable to bear it any longer. I found myself carrying the immorality that I had been resisting in the corner, and the vague light of judgment at the end of the long tunnel disappeared.
Covered with muddy water and paint on his face, he carried a pocket containing a knife and walked down the streets of the city at night. At this time, the underworld boss discovered his abnormality and "enthusiastically" presented him with a pistol. Perhaps it was out of a little bit of desire for miracles in his heart. He didn't want himself to be a demon. The nameless anger strangled his despairing heart, but he didn't want to really hurt any innocent people. So he hid the pistol in the washing machine outside his house. While wandering on the street, Sumita happened to meet a perverted murderer on the bus and at the street singing scene. Those men with distorted faces were completely desperate, and they lost the last bottom line of being human. Sumita witnessed the perverts' every move, shouted angrily and stabbed the violent perverts with a knife, but was blocked by the people around him, and turned into a rescuer who rescued the victims.
On top of the ruins, will the house leaning on the calm and dead lake after the disaster sink or survive? Cha Ze persuaded Zhu Tian to surrender, "Even if you give up yourself, you have to work hard to live. This is everyone's obligation." "When you get out of prison, we will rent a cheap apartment and start our happy life, be serious and down-to-earth. Then the child is born, called our parents, the child will grow up slowly, one day, he will suddenly feel very happy, and then thank us from the heart to bring it to the world." At the same time, the pistol in the washing machine seems to be Another temptation to self-destruct.
It was dawn, and the gunshots rang out. Cha Ze ran out and looked for the land on the barren lake. At this moment, Sumita appeared behind her. He was still alive and decided to try to keep running.
After the story is told, this one is the brightest among Yuan Ziwen's B-level films. It is said to be bright, because the soul that has not yet died on the ruins is the least of mediocrity. Although at the beginning of the film, Sumita shouted in class to the teacher who advocated that everyone should become a flower of hard work: Long live mediocrity!
In "Unmatched Sun", it is said that all the stories in the world are the repeated combination of love, blood and rhetoric. Sono Ziwen's films are always full of extreme twisted love, violence and blood, and bizarre situational layouts. There is a small detail in "Mediocre Talent". Sumita refused to follow Cha Ze and pushed her down. When Cha Ze rolled down the lawn of the river bank, her short skirt was lifted by the wind, revealing her white panties. Sumita and the uncle beside her coincided. A light-hearted smile—that's pretty much Sumita's only smile in the film. This kind of perverted description of physiological interest in a repressed atmosphere, I don't know where to find other than Sono Ziwen's movies. Similar scenes are even more strikingly portrayed in "Exposure of Love", both of which have inconspicuous adult parental roles and depressed and distorted juvenile mentality. In "Mediocre Talents", Sumita's biological parents ruthlessly and selfishly blamed his birth for ruining his good life, but the victims around Sumita all supported him wholeheartedly. He pays his debt and gets involved in a murder. This is obviously an extreme contrast that does not conform to real life. We can of course consider it absurd, but it also hints at one thing: the inversion of the adult world, and the innocence of the teenage world. Parents inflict their own failures and festering emotions on their children consciously or unintentionally in the torment of the years. If our parents in the normal world do not want this, but there are many results. At the same time, it is this adult world, which appears to be mature and prudent, but is actually fragile, seeking hope from the youth world. "Do flowers bloom with dreams?" This is the question Chazawa asked the teacher. Adults will think that the growth of teenagers comes from the indoctrination and hard work of the outside world, but the power that really supports them to mature and even break through those cold enchantments comes from their vitality itself. Even flowers that are born in the dark and have not been well guided will long to face the sun. Just like Sumita and Chazawa. The small floating house half planted into the lake is the symbol of the protagonist's fate.
What makes "Mediocre" not mediocre lies in its self-salvation beyond the broken reality. The run at the beginning of Sumita is just a reflection of a normal teenager's desire for a positive life. The run at the end and the call to cheer Sumita are the answer to the beginning. Everyone is looking for their own answer, and to find it in the hard run. At the beginning, the pistol hidden in the old washing machine above the ruins with a flashback method, the sound at the end is not that the teenager is defeated by the desperate reality, but that the teenager uses the pistol destroyed by the adult to declare war on the depression and despair of the real world. This kind of redemption seems to come from the instinct of life, or the director's blessing?
Everyone's worldview has limitations. From a psychological point of view, a person's innate genes and acquired trauma work together to affect his personality and mental health. Children living in unsound families are innately inclined to Inheriting some of the personality genes of his parents, and being further damaged by the influence of the growing environment, it is difficult to say that this person will miraculously complete his breakthrough under various unfavorable factors. From the perspective of causality, it comes from the imprint of experience. It must be hidden in all aspects of his future life. Nor can we guarantee that the teenager will not grow up to be the adult he once hated. The night before the surrender, Sumita and Chazawa were lying on the floor facing the ceiling. Chazawa helped Sumita to imagine their happy life after he was released from prison. He vaguely heard the baby's cry of curiosity about the world, which was something Sumita never imagined. The scene, tears quietly slipped from the corners of his eyes. What is the situation after being released from prison? Will he see that girl still waiting for him in the sun with a cheeky smile, or as he predicted pessimistically, meet a sunny and handsome senior in college and give him a warm smile. Sub-fascinated, long forgotten me. We don't know what will happen in the future. But anyway, at least this time, he won.
Sono Ziwen's films are contrary to normal social ethics, but reflect profound human nature. It rips to shreds the garb of morality carefully constructed in the adult world, not to deny the value of truth, goodness, and beauty, but to imply something we almost forget: that human nature precedes social norms. When a person falls into a quagmire, it is often the result of various complex factors, including experience and situation, and people have the potential for self-redemption and the hope of mutual redemption to get out of the vicious circle.
If "Mediocre" is closer to warm realism, "Love" is more of a fantasy and banter style. The "innocent" people are as usual hell for others, and in peace, the political correctness and the absurdity of life go hand in hand. "Love Exposure" explores a more complex and tangled theme of belief, desire, and loss of control.
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