A complete analysis of the plot of Better Days

Better Days is based on the realistic problems in school bullying. Although the plot inside is not brain-burning, there are still some details that are easily overlooked. The following is an analysis of the plot and ending of Good Days.

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Finally, Chen Nian became a teacher and gave lessons to students on the podium, echoing the scene at the beginning of the film. In the last egg, Chen Nian and her classmates walked on the road, and Xiaobei followed Chen Nian to protect her after she got out of prison.

For Chen Nian's future, Xiaobei willingly forged his own criminal motive and process, pretending to be a rapist who committed crimes in the city, attempted rape and killed people by mistake, and took the rap for Chen Nian.

Chen Nian took part in the college entrance examination, and together with Xiaobei, she tacitly completed the scene of receiving rap in the trial.

Yongzheng, a police officer who had already seen through everything, used his own way to finally let Chen Nian choose to plead guilty.

Chen Nian was a manslaughter, Xiaobei was a dismembered body, and both of them were underage, so they were given a light sentence.

A few years later, Chen Nian became an English teacher in a training institution, and Xiaobei still silently protected her behind her back.

However, there are some details in the film that make people doubt the ending.

First of all, Wei Lai was pushed down the stairs by Chen Nian. Before the incident, Wei Lai's sudden begging for mercy was abrupt and the editing was a bit stiff.

After Wei Lai fell down the stairs and died, Xiaobei borrowed his brother's father's taxi to hide and bury the body, which required both quick action and careful planning. The film doesn't explain much about this process.

And there are often street corner scenes in movies. No cameras at the crime scene?

In addition, Chen Nian was bullied by Wei Lai and her associates, cut her hair and took nude photos. After that, she cried silently in Xiaobei's home alone.

Small north looked at immediately want to rush out to find wei lai they revenge, but was stopped by Chen Nian embrace, and Shouting:

"You go and kill them for me!"

Xiaobei stayed at home instead, and then he cut Chennian's hair and shaved off his long hair, keeping the same size as Chennian.

Chen Nian picked up her mobile phone and left a photo for herself and Xiaobei.

This haircut scene seems to have some hints of a makeover.

Moreover, both Chen Nian and Xiao Bei were taken to trial by the police, and they were tricked into confession by rhetoric, but they had an amazing tacit understanding.

Reminiscent of the scene where Xiaobei disguised to kidnap Chen Nian and wanted to rape him, Chen Nian didn't seem to know that Xiaobei would do this, and he didn't fully cooperate with him to call for help. Finally, under the strength of Xiaobei, the trick was finished and was taken away by the police.

After being identified as a suspect by the police, Chen Nian was extremely calm during the trial, insisted on not pleading guilty, and cooperated with Xiaobei tacitly.

All these make people wonder if there is another possibility for the ending of the story.

After Chen Nian was shaved and photographed nude by Wei Lai, her heart had collapsed and gradually blackened.

She vowed to get revenge and end it all. So she and Xiaobei planned the murder together, and Xiaobei committed the crime and buried the body.

Xiaobei is willing to sacrifice himself for Chen Nian. At his insistence, the two agreed to kill each other once the confession was revealed.

A heavy rain made the body found early, and Chen Nian was targeted by the police because he was bullied by Wei Lai and had criminal motives.

At this time, Xiaobei came up with a way to disguise the rapist in order to better clean up Chen Nian.

Finally Xiaobei went to prison, and Chen Nian went to college as he wished.

The above is just a possible ending that the individual guesses according to the plot of the film.

It can be clearly seen from this film that Ceng Guoxiang inherited and changed the previous work "July and An Sheng"-it is still a long-term hand-held and close-up of the characters, and it still reveals the deepest feelings of the characters in a complex and bold reversal. But the difference is that Better Days has handled everything to the extreme. Both the campus problems in the first half and the entanglement with the adult world in the second half constitute a vigorous social view. July and Ansheng's "going out" are different from those in better days.

Although I was psychologically prepared when I read the preview before, there will be many close-ups of people with embarrassing faces. But I didn't expect this shooting method to run through the film almost all the time, 70%+ is like this. No matter the subject matter or the shooting technique, this is a crazy gamble. Two actors staring at the screen in front of the camera, their performance is not only the key to the success or failure of the film, but also can be said-they perform a few points, and the film is directly a few points.

Zeng Guoxiang won the bet. Zhou Dongyu and Jackson Yee performed so well that they couldn't stand the focus. Both of them gave extremely sharp and painful performances. These two faces present a complex emotional level and are very penetrating, which makes people unconsciously substitute into their gloomy lives and think of the beautiful past in their lives, just like another "shift" of youth files.

Chen Nian, aged 18, a top student in senior three, is preparing for the college entrance examination. There are still 60 days before the college entrance examination. Studying hard and getting into a good university is her only idea. Classmate Hu Xiaodie was overwhelmed and fell from the upstairs, thus trapping her in a more complicated situation. Zeng Guoxiang and his usual screenwriter team once again wrote an emotional story of growing up with the thickness of real life, which is both stinging and profound and full of sociality.

It's hard to count. This is how many times Zhou Dongyu performed as a girl. However, Chen Nian, a good girl in despair and helplessness, is her best performance in my eyes, even more extroverted An Sheng than July and An Sheng, and Fang Xiaoxiao, who spanned ten years in Later Us.

The screen image before Chennian and Zhou Dongyu is in sharp contrast. An Sheng is her best performance, and also the fixed direction of many previous roles, fresh and cheerful; Fang Xiaoxiao's image is between An Sheng and Chen Nian, and that performance emphasized the sense of difference of the same character in two time and space. Unlike Chen Nian, she is gloomy, silent, weak on the outside and firm on the inside, like a "wall flower" in the corner, which is more "marginalized" and more difficult to interpret.

Xiao Bei, played by Jackson Yee, has to learn to be a climber since childhood because of his tragic life experience, and the "shell" of the role is bound to be a little older than his actual age. Compared with Chen Nian, Xiaobei is more rigid, less exposed and more restrained. However, this does not mean that the space of the characters in the play is suppressed. On the contrary, Jackson Yee's performance under restrictions is still very sharp, and he and Zhou Dongyu are different in acting skills. The confrontation between the two shows that some of them are strong, and they help each other, just like July and Ansheng.

In the movie, we can see many photos of the old back. She walked unsteadily step by step and bowed her head slightly, as if she were always avoiding the "prey" she wanted to hunt. This is Xiaobei's trailing perspective, and it is also the psychological externalization of Chen Nian who is tortured and indifferent to the world.

It is this fragility that makes her unable to cope even if she is prepared, which also makes her the "next" after Hu Xiaodie's death. Campus violence did not stop because of such tragic events, but gathered into a series of new tragedies that people were caught off guard. After being violently beaten by volleyball, being pushed down the stairs until it happened outside the school became a more and more serious personal humiliation ... these are just the tip of the iceberg in the movie. There are no beautiful fantasies in adolescence, only bloody scars again and again, forcing you to look straight.

Girls like Chen Nian are actually unwilling to attract attention, but they still become the center of scandals and injuries. Even if she is kind and brave enough, the first meeting with Xiaobei has already explained this point. However, people are used to turning a blind eye to what happened to her, making things trivial, or disrespecting her, or brushing everything away casually.

As long as an unconventional thing happens, people often don't ask who made the mistake, but only point the finger at the victim who created the "trouble" and prevaricate with reasons such as "it takes a slap to fight". And those wicked people who really don't know what to do get away with it. The story of Better Days is unfolded in such an atmosphere. Even in hot summer, it is always wrapped in bleak and cold, and occasionally there are only traces of warm background.

Chen Nian is not simple. She is smart enough to make people feel distressed. She is not the "completely pure" passive hostess in the previous film and television works with the same theme, but a complex character image.

In the first half of the film, she will feel that she is not worthy of such protection, because of her forbearance and cowardice before, and because of her mother's debt. In the second half of the film, the character has several surprising reversals, forcing her to face the final choice of human nature (no spoiler here).

Zhou Dongyu's face without makeup was "destroyed" so badly from beginning to end that she shed so many tears that people could not bear to look straight. No matter the scars left after being tortured or the scars cut into inches by force, they all appear on the screen so realistically, and the intuitive impression is physical pain. In so many scenes, her loneliness and despair overflowed with tears, and she was so sad that she wanted to cry.

But what moved me most was that she cried silently when she heard Xiaobei's life story. This is what impressed me most in Better Days, that is, the self-evident relationship between them, and they jointly established an alliance against the world. Without words, you can understand what the other person is thinking, and you can empathize with the other person. Even if you have suffered great misfortune, you still have not lost the ability to empathize.

This is love that can only belong to teenagers. They all saw each other's shadow in each other. In the same vein as July and An Sheng, both films are about differences, overlaps and rotations between different individuals, but Better Days is more violent and decisive.

"Uncomfortable" was repeatedly mentioned by Zhou Dongyu in many interviews about beautiful days. "Chen Nian and I are completely different. We can't find the fulcrum of the characters, and we can't experience life in advance. I feel depressed in the first half of the month, which is really uncomfortable. "

Zhou Dongyu's distress may be precisely the reason why her performance is so unforgettable this time. Her uncertainty, confusion, and entanglement finally broke out in the interrogation room, and every step was heartbreaking. Through her, we project ourselves and see ourselves.

If you want to complete the role of Chen Nian, you can achieve the so-called "correct performance" not only by developing skills or simply experiencing life. On the contrary, she needs intuition, and she needs to explore and ask questions about the characters unconsciously and subconsciously. Because of this, in just a few months' film time and space, Zhou Dongyu can deduce all kinds of complicated emotional flows, so that the whole character is always in a broken and uncertain transition and never falls into a pattern or a pattern. This kind of performance undoubtedly constitutes one of the reasons why the film is sincere and moving.

Better Days is a film that needs our attention and social attention. I think the evaluation of last year's narrow escape can be moved here intact-its appearance is not only a kind of daring to speak out, but also an understanding and care for everyone around me. I hope that there will be more and more such films, so that more audiences can understand different corners of our society.