Although Hyun-soo and Yuzhi are good friends, they have fallen in love with Athena Chu since they met Athena Chu, a female student on the bus. Athena Chu also fell in love with two people at the same time, but in different ways. ...
Behind-the-scenes production: 1978 was at the end of the Korean reform era. The era of reform refers to a period of Korean history under park chung-hee's military regime after park chung-hee determined its permanent ruling political system by force in 72. The era of reform is also the so-called "era when parents run amok". The head of state is called the "father of the country", the principal plays the role of "father" in the school, and the father is the absolute authority at home. The era of reform is also an era full of violence, from the military regime to schools and even families are defending their authority through violence. The cruel history of Mazhou Street can be said to be a sad song for young people who lived in the shadow of violent "parents" in the reform era. In such an era, violence is everywhere, friendship is formed in violence, and love is also determined by violence and power. It is not surprising that the heroine chose it. His violence and power are above that of the hero, but can this love stand the test of time? In the movie, the heroine and Yu finally broke up. Liu He, the director of this film, used to be a poet. In this film, he described Xian Xiu's sad and cruel high school campus life according to his student days. The campus in the movie is actually a microcosm of Korean society at that time. In a campus full of violence from the principal to the students, Hyun-soo can't be alone. In the end, all the depressed emotions of Xianxiu, such as despair, pain and anger, broke out in the duel of roof 1 8, with red eyes full of tears and shouting "Fuck all schools in Korea" to reach a climax. However, Xianxiu did not go to self-destruction in despair, nor did she take revenge on the dark society, but started a new life hopefully. The director did not exaggerate the cruel history of South Korea in the 1970s, but recreated the scene from the unique perspective of his poet.
In the long life, everyone has the most unforgettable memory. The cruel history of Mazhou Street shows us the process of a boy's transformation and growth in a realistic style. The film is like a distorted mirror, reflecting the deformed educational system in Korean society. Jin Xuanzhu, a senior two student, moved to the notorious Wennan Middle School in Mazhou Street. As the name implies, it is in Mazhou Street that Xianxiu will experience the cruelest, most painful and unforgettable days in his life. Timidity in love at first sight, drunken kiss in deep love, rainy night.
The crying in tears, the bloody hunting and fighting on the roof, and the growing scars, in the background of the times, are as cruel as the blood when Xian Xiu left school, clear, sharp and harsh in the background of the white sunset.
Yu is an example of xian xiu. He is handsome, tall and powerful, and he is the eldest in his class. As soon as Hyun-soo appeared, Sang-woo gave this role melancholy eyes, weak voice and slightly hunched shoulders, which was far from the image of a man. On the issue of solving disputes by violence, Xian Xiu holds a negative attitude. When defending Athena Chu, he looked weak, not as strong and direct as his fist. Therefore, it's not surprising that Athena Chu chose the majestic rain plant and gave up the seemingly weak virtuous show. However, a hero does not mean violence, nor does he judge a book by its cover. In good times, it is difficult for us to find the difference between quality and spirit. Only in adversity can we judge who is really strong from one's attitude towards failure and frustration.
Rain seedling may be strong, but he lacks rationality. As the boss of the class, he defended his territory, but when his interests were damaged, he bullied his brother at will. Once he fell, he chose to escape rather than get up. In fact, in the battle with Che Zhongxun, he never won. Che Zhongxun has always appeared in the face of maintaining order, which makes the rain factory have no choice but to fight violence with violence. However, the violence of the rain factory can't compare with Che Zhongxun's "pseudo-justice". When the "assassin" was reprimanded by Che Zhongxun, he defended the "assassin" and temporarily forced Che Zhongxun to retreat. However, the "assassin" polluted the public's drinking water and still had to be punished by the disciplinary department. Hyun-soo also tried to help the "assassin" who was knocked to the ground. His reason is that even the people in the correction department can't hit people casually, which makes Che Zhongxun feel helpless and difficult to deal with. Hyun-soo and Yu-sik have decided the result in their first round.
In the competition between love and friendship, the original rain plants completely prevailed. However, with the passage of time, Yu Zhu gradually exposed her inner deficiency and mental weakness. Everything she did was just for the sake of scenery and "not losing face". In dealing with pornographic books, he threw the hamburger out, defended the son of General Samsung, and almost let Hamburg drop out of school. His snobbery disappointed Hamburg who followed him for three years. In the process of pursuing Athena Chu, his attitude partly depends on Xian Xiu's attitude. When Hyun-soo approached Athena Chu, he chased Athena Chu with a more powerful gesture. When Hyun-soo chose to forget, he didn't cherish the love he got. When Hyun-soo left Rain Plant, Rain Plant was weak and had no friends. When Athena Chu abandoned Yuhua, Yuhua without love was eclipsed. Those who pursue the appearance of life are eventually eliminated by the heavy life.
Although the film is short, it is rich in content. While explaining what a hero is, don't forget to explain the background at that time. 1in the spring of 978, the warlord regime of the main male high school in Mazhou Street was rampant. Hyun-soo, who doesn't like fighting, was knocked over by the school stick on the first day of school, and every day after that, she couldn't tell whether she was studying or being punished. Ironically, while talking about "our democracy is imitating western democracy", the political teacher slapped the students and said, "It is because of you boys that our democracy has not been realized." In the process of teaching, officers can break into quiet classrooms at any time, search students' belongings and punish students who violate the regulations.
Although Hyun-soo longed to be a hero like Bruce Lee, he never thought that one day he would stand up and fight for his rights and dignity. To his surprise, when he broke the window of the school, threw nunchakus and read aloud "Go to hell with Korean education", he left the school. His dream was not shattered, but he was closer to his pursuit. In June+10 of the same year, after park chung-hee was shot, Korean society re-entered the process of pursuing democracy and freedom. Xian Xiu, who attends classes in the cram school, shows a peaceful smile from time to time.
While shaping heroism, the film does not forget to present the pure first love of Xian Xiu to us. In the campus full of bullying, violence and sexual fantasy, the film depicts Xianxiu's pure, sincere and deep first love in a flowing way, and the camera keeps extending to Xianxiu's inner world, so that we can weigh the life weight of Xianxiu again. Unique perspective, refreshing.
Knowing that Hyun-soo likes Athena Chu, Yu Zhi still kisses Athena Chu in front of Hyun-soo and refuses to take care of Hyun-soo's feelings. When Hyun-soo was with Athena Chu, he put his finger on the candle and gently explained his discomfort to Athena Chu. At Athena Chu's tearful request, when I returned the pen to him, I thought it over and said my thoughts through radio waves, hoping my friends would understand. However, how can people who never listen to the radio have such delicate feelings? His direct reaction is vulgar and despicable, which not only defiles Xianxiu's friendship, but also defiles Xianxiu's love. Although Yu once took away the silver beads that loved him, love, like life, requires patience, perseverance and indomitable courage. The goal of love is highly consistent with the goal of life. After the scenery is dark and the goal loses its motivation, the ending of love is also poor.
Before that, Hyun-soo first suffered the double betrayal of love and friendship. On that darkest rainy night, Hyun-soo ran to the roof platform of the library, feeling very uncomfortable. He said, "I have no ideal, nothing to do, nothing to do, just like the intermittent rain, I hope to fall like that." However, the blood of youth will not be easily cooled, and the enthusiasm of youth will not be easily extinguished. Hyun-soo never wants to be an "extra person". Although the ideal of life could not be realized under the circumstances at that time, he was still looking for the meaning of survival. After suffering and hesitation, he realized the significance of his existence and felt the sadness of his departure, which led to the idea of seeking dignity and value for his friends and himself. He said, "I finally found something to do, and I decided my own direction." And unswervingly put in efforts, love and friendship turned into sonorous nunchakus, prompting Xianxiu to complete the most powerful blow. When Hyun-soo said, "Come to the roof and let's fight it out," the hero was born at that time.
The film uses many metaphors, and the bus is the most natural one. It seems handy, but it is original. At the beginning of the film, Hyun-soo boarded her destiny bus with trepidation. On the bus, he met a student like a street hooligan for the first time, a girl who fascinated him for the first time, a senior student for the first time, and his lover for the first time. Love begins with the bus, holding an umbrella together, riding for a while, wanting to talk, getting off.
When Hyun-soo came out of the dance floor, she was walking alone in the empty street, and the sad melody was still echoing in her ears. The cool night wind dried the tears in my eyes, and my mood was as empty as the deep night sky. At this time, the bus of life came again, slowly stopped in front of him and took him to towards the distant. However, Hyun-soo is not ready yet. He hesitated, gave up the established trajectory and turned into the boss's snack bar, only to be tested again. If the high pressure of violence tests Xianxiu's beliefs and beliefs, then the temptation of sexual desire tests Xianxiu's moral bottom line. In the face of violence, Hyun-soo chose to defeat the tenacity of getting up, and in the face of sexual temptation, Hyun-soo chose to maintain physical and mental loyalty.
However, Xian Xiu, who was seduced, did not turn back. He still lingers outside the wheel of fate. Before he finally finished his first kiss and could taste the sweetness of love, the silver beads and the rain flower disappeared, leaving Hyun-soo leaning painfully against the bus window, staring at the night sky with the same tears in her eyes. A year later, when Hyun-soo finally returned to the track of fate, Athena Chu was getting off Hyun-soo's life bus. In the fading blurred image, Athena Chu, together with that passionate era, became an eternal memory in Xian Xiu's life.
You Xiang plays Xian Xiu's introversion, shyness, anxiety, depression, and the final outbreak, with a delicate sense of hierarchy and a sense of proportion, and the whole role has a high three-dimensional sense. At the end of the film, Hyun-soo stopped shrinking. His eyes are clear, his voice is calm and his back is straight. He is no longer the melancholy teenager who is worried about the future, but a confident young man with clear beliefs. In the process of being dragged down by Hyun-soo's fate, I am often moved by Hyun-soo's actors. The quality of mutual assistance hidden in the shadow of Xianxiu constantly impacts me, as if through some magical charm, the difference between Xianxiu and mutual assistance is blurred. The most wonderful detail in the film, the part where the boss seduces Hyun-soo, fully shows Hyun-soo's panic and bewilderment, especially his gestures, breathing and red ears. It seems that he is not performing, but a good tutor and natural shyness, which naturally shows up in this case. When Hyun-soo decided to do something, his heart was burning with flames. Even with thorns and flames, he will go forward and never back down. The fighting on the roof is particularly visually shocking. It's so real, I don't know for a moment whether this is the arrangement of roles or the true nature of mutual assistance.
After Shang Yu joined the army, his girlfriend broke up with him. It was his first love. He liked the girl for many years. On the eve of enlistment, he was finally able to hold hands and kiss goodbye, but he was thrown into the abyss of loneliness in an instant. Sang-woo said it was very painful at that time. The whole person lost his direction and didn't know what to do every day. He lost about six kilograms, which worried everyone around him. However, the flowers of hope blooming in the dark are even more dazzling. Like Hyun-soo, Sang-woo didn't feel depressed or desperate in the darkest moment of his life, but found something to do, decided the direction of progress, and went forward bravely, giving youth a huge dazzling aura.
When Hyun-soo danced nunchakus again and again, I seemed to see Sang-woo shuttling between Seoul and Nanchuan, struggling to finish her studies. When Hyun-soo hit the sandbag dully again and again, I seemed to see Sang-woo standing silently on the runway, sweating profusely to realize his dream. When Xian Xiu finally changed from a timid child to a school hero, Shang Yu also grew from an unknown teenager to a legendary model of an era.
Shang Yu said: "This is the first film I am not ashamed of." He really told the truth. No matter how many films he acted in and how superb his acting skills were, no film made him look back at himself so clearly as The Cruel History of Massachusetts Street. This movie seems to be the reappearance of his youth, bitter but full, simple but dazzling. With this film, he is completely worthy of his kindness, his brother who is like a father and a friend, his unforgettable first love and his passionate youth.
The film begins with Bruce Lee and ends with Jackie Chan. Although the definition of hero is different in different times, boys' pursuit and fantasy of hero complex will not change in any era. If Bruce Lee stands alone on the opposite side of the world with Jeet Kune Do as a weapon, then Jackie Chan gets along well with the world in the form of drunken boxing. The forms of heroes are different, but the essence of heroes is the same, that is, the goal is unshakable, and it is our responsibility to safeguard social moral justice. The film is set off by romantic love and campus violence, quietly starting from the love and friendship of Xianxiu, and running through the meaning of hero, so that the audience can judge for themselves what is a hero and what is growth.
After reading The Cruel History of Mazhou Street, all the beautiful memories of youth are vividly displayed in front of my eyes. Shang Yu reminded us of the warm and youthful first love and rainbow-like dream with his wonderful performance. Playing shyly on the boat, crying sadly in the rain, and hitting silently again and again in the training room are all real and natural. However, what really makes us respect is the inner strength that You Xiang endowed this role with. Whether hero or mortal, the meaning of growth lies in faith, and once the goal is set, it is persistence. If I can see Kwone Sang Woo in the future, I want to pay tribute to him in the name of the youth of the role of Hyun-soo.