How to evaluate the film Youth?

Youth is the most popular best film work before this year's Oscar ceremony, because it conforms to the consistent taste of Oscar judges in theme, shooting technique and final presentation. But on the day of the award ceremony, we found that with the announcement of awards, youth eventually became a runner, which made many favorite audiences unhappy. Many people think this is a great work. In fact, I think, as an audience, there is really no need to care too much about your own movies. How many awards can the award ceremony win? Oscar is just a show, and entertainment is its most important function. So let's put aside these additional factors and objectively evaluate today's "youth".

Narrator (Long Bin):

There are many reasons why we love movies. For the audience who met the Factory Gate for the first time, the projector is a Pandora's box that glows, and the light flow has visual magic, which is a miracle imagined by the creator. For people who have never traveled far, movies are a way to understand the world. We can worship great legends and spy on other people's lives. The greatest magic of this film lies in its magic of reversing time. Each of us is also experiencing the transformation of time and space, because no one can get close to the speed of light, and no one can be in the singularity of gravity distortion. However, movies have changed the speed of time passing, compressed or extended the scale of spatial change, and the relativistic effect created by movies has made us laugh at the impermanence of life and allowed us to wander through a person's "youth" in a trance.

The story of "Youth" can be summarized in one sentence. If we evaluate a Texas boy's boyhood from the perspective of an ordinary youth film, the story of "Boyhood" is not too new, but the experimental technique of director linklater has changed everything. Under the lens of linklater lasting 12 years, the memory of youth is endowed with extraordinary significance, and we can pick up the details of an era again. Although it tells the life of an American boy, we can also find familiar memories from those popular cultural elements. Whether it's a string of golden songs that have been popular for 12 years, games and entertainment activities that boys like, changing mobile phones from Motorola to Apple, and then discussing world current affairs between the lines. From Bush in the post-9 1 1 era to the first black president, Obama, all happened instantly and were real.

12 time is condensed into a three-hour image. We can finally face the lost time calmly and start to pick up those sad or happy memories. An understated "decades later" may be the most irresponsible time-space transfer in the film. We seem to be awakened by the director in a dream, coldly throwing out a sentence-"Look, this is the end", and then he turned and walked away. In Interstellar, which also tells about the passage of time, the two actors who play their daughter Murphy look alike, which makes many people cry. And "Youth" completely abandons the passage of time that will make us feel false, but it is not a documentary, but a drama that is really written and filmed. Most importantly, it doesn't have the rule of overstepping time, but waits for all-round time with the off-screen audience.

There is no change of actors from beginning to end, the shooting cycle of more than 10 years, trivial narrative and lack of continuity. These characteristics, which belong to "youth", undoubtedly link it with many art forms. Loyal viewers of long-lasting American TV dramas such as Friends or Looking for Mom will also feel the same sense of substitution as when they were young. Their sense of identity with the characters in the play and their projection of real life are also quite strong. Broadly speaking, Harry Potter, who has never changed actors, has also accompanied a generation to grow up, and it even appeared in his youth. After ten years' reincarnation, The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit finally ended their legend, but Friends is a dramatic life after all, and Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings may even symbolize the fantasy dream of adolescence. In the real world, the uniqueness of youth is unparalleled.