This famous saying may seem absurd to many people, but it is worthy of the name in the novel "Heartbeat" by American children writer Wendling Vandra Annan.
From the perspective of two children, the book describes a pure love that crosses the age limit with simple and lovely brushstrokes. Once the work was launched, it reached the bestseller list and touched countless readers around the world.
With such excellent market performance, it is not surprising that the novel was bought by Hollywood for film adaptation.
20 10, the movie version of Heartbeat directed by rob reiner, who is over 60 years old and has been in Hollywood Vanity Fair for decades, was officially released.
The film won unanimous praise from audiences all over the world, and also won unanimous praise from many film critics in an unprecedented way, which also triggered a reminiscence and reflection on youth love.
Most importantly, the production cost of this film, including the later announcement, is only $6.5438+0.4 million, which is pitifully low compared with those Hollywood special effects action blockbusters that invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the same period.
However, the eye-catching market performance of the film has made countless so-called blockbusters feel ashamed. In the new era when Hollywood relies more and more on action special effects and huge scenes to win, Heartbeat has returned to the golden age of Hollywood, focusing on the film plot itself and carefully polishing the film production mode.
Under the direction of Father Rainer, Beating Heart does not choose the single-line narrative structure used in Hollywood love movies, but adopts a brand-new narrative mode of the original novel and a double-line parallel narrative structure.
The film forms two narrative clues from the perspective of the hero and heroine in the film, and narrates alternately in parallel, so that the original simple and clear story presents a completely different look and feel and charm from the respective perspectives of the two protagonists.
At the same time, this simple, overlapping and bifurcated narrative structure greatly improves the narrative efficiency that traditional single-line narrative can't match. On the one hand, it creates the aesthetic feeling of time and space circulation, on the other hand, it greatly promotes the continuous development of the story.
This makes the film have great reference and thinking significance for the development of the same type of youth love movies in the future.
The film first describes the heroine Julie Baker. Growing up in a small town, she has always been firm and believed in three things, that is, big trees (especially buttonwood trees with special significance to her) are sacred, and the eggs laid by chickens in her backyard are the most hygienic. One day, she will kiss Bryce Rosky, the boy who is destined to be.
However, dreams are always out of reach, and facts are always extremely cruel. Julie and Bryce haven't said a word since they met in the second grade. Bryce even thinks Julie is a freak-why else would she take raising chickens and sitting under a tree as fun?
The dividing line between the first half and the second half of the story is sawing trees.
Julie has always believed that the buttonwood tree is extremely sacred, but she can't stop people from hurting it.
In despair, she saw Bryce, whom she had longed for for for a long time, and called on Bryce to protect the tree with herself, but she didn't get any response. Bryce boarded the school bus and left unmoved, but the tree could not escape the fate of being cut down.
Julie changed her previous love for Bryce from this incident and began to re-examine whether this boy is worthy of her heart.
As the saying goes, life is precious and love is more expensive. If you are free, you can throw both. Love is indeed a precious existence for a person, but if you love someone, you have to sacrifice your dignity and personality for it, so what is the meaning of such love?
Julie completely lost interest in the boy when she saw Bryce throw away the eggs she gave her and thought of what her father had said to herself.
Seeing this, I can't help but think of the famous saying written by Robert Maccammon, an American children's literature writer, in his immortal masterpiece, "It's like archery, you obviously hit the target, but you are 100% sure that you will hit it. I didn't expect the arrow to go out before it was blown away by the sudden wind, and it didn't hit the red heart ... "
Bryce, who was completely uninterested in Julie, accidentally learned about the misfortune she almost encountered when she was born that year through her grandfather, and had a deeper understanding of the misfortune of Julie's family.
Through Julie's family, Bryce stepped into her world and gradually discovered the girl's unique temperament and charm. ...
The release of the film at that time first triggered the thinking and discussion of love in the adult world, followed by the differences in family education between the East and the West.
If Julie and Bryce's story happened in China, we have no doubt that before they could flirt, they would be pulled aside by their parents and teachers and taught them a good lesson.
Today, the examination-oriented education system is becoming more and more perfect, but the attitude of China society towards teenagers' feelings has never changed. Puppy love is still regarded as a beast that hinders the physical and mental health of teenagers and is not conducive to academic performance.
Should we think about whether our education should be more comprehensive and humanized? We should not only pay attention to students' academic performance, but also pay attention to their emotional education, so as to maintain good emotional intelligence in modern society, which is no less than profound knowledge.
Family is like a safe haven for children or another school. If you learn knowledge theory at school, you learn values at home. What exactly do you want? What price can you pay for your dreams while pursuing them? What is the significance and function of understanding self-esteem and self-love in the process of growing up?
Through the love affair between Bryce and Julie in the film, we can see that a large part of the plot of the film is ostensibly describing the process of two throbbing young children getting to know each other and loving each other, but in fact it is discussing what role the family should play in the growth of teenagers and how boys and girls can communicate normally.
Bryce's family (mainly his father's attitude towards life) is that he is biased against Julie and has no important factors in life. And Julie's parents' education has given her a different kind of perseverance and courage.
The existence of a tree in the movie symbolizes the love between two people. Like Bryce, Julie has deep feelings for buttonwood. She always likes to climb the tree alone and look into the distance (and often expects Bryce to appear in front of her and look into the distance with her), forgetting all worldly clouds.
But then someone tried to cut down the tree, and sawing the tree symbolized that Bryce, a handsome boy in Julie's heart, was no longer a perfect existence in her heart. Just like in the film, Julie's father said meaningfully after listening to her daughter's crying: "It's time ..."
This tree, which once grew up with Julie, symbolizes first love. Since then, it has become a painting and has always been a part of Julie's growth.
It is from here that Bryce, who had no interest in Julie in the first half of the film, began to wake up. Especially in the middle of the night, grandpa said, "Some people are mediocre and shallow, and they are rich in gold and jade, and they are defeated."
Inadvertently, one day you will meet a rainbow-like person, and from then on, others are just floating clouds in a hurry. "Let him start to reflect on what he did to Julie.
When Bryce looked at this humble girl with unprecedented eyes, she was gradually fascinated by it and smelled the bud of love.
He used to be indifferent to life and nature, and under the influence of Julie and grandpa's behavior, he had his own "turn over a new leaf"
At this stage, Julie's attitude towards Bryce, who is more mature and rational in love judgment, has undergone earth-shaking changes, and Bryce has gradually fallen into love and regret. Through the simple perspective of two children, the director seems to be asking the audience: children also know the value and difficulty of love, how can they handle and treat their emotional problems casually in real life?
Finally, after all kinds of setbacks and tests, Bryce and Julie finally came together. At the end of the film, two people planted a new sapling of the same species. This scene symbolizes that love that no longer exists has sprouted again.
Before watching Heartbeat, I wondered why a simple film of pure love was so popular and well received. But at the end of the story, reviewing the story development of the whole movie, we find that the movie is not only a love movie about youth love, but also a reflection on youth and growth.
Julie and Bryce in the movie finally understand what love is through bitterness and sweetness in their youth when they met each other. In today's era when the feelings between people are getting cheaper and more utilitarian, it is even more valuable for the hero and heroine in the film to explore and think about love as two children.
For director rob reiner, film is also a crucial work in his film career. In 2007, Roberto Lena, who had entered the age of no doubt at that time, used a The Bucket List to express his ultimate thinking about the value and goal of life, which triggered a wide range of hot discussions and deep thoughts.
Three years later, Robert Lai Na expressed his concern for youth and growth with this song "Beating". He once expressed his idea of creating this film in an interview. He thinks that everyone will have their own doubts about many things in life when they are twelve or thirteen years old.
At such a stage, if you can meet a role similar to that of a life mentor and always accompany you to grow up, then life will become brighter than before.
Many people who have seen Heartbeat will also fall into memories of the past years. Whether it is a boy or a girl who is still throbbing with youth or an adult who has become a parent, perhaps they have all had gorgeous and ignorant youth as in the movie, and also had their favorite "true love".
However, time flies, maybe my final partner is not the original one, which is a regret that can't be turned back.
What we need to understand is that trying to live in the present is the best memory of that relationship.