Chapter 892 The situation changes
"Eric and Alex".
In the physics class, other students were listening carefully. Alex sat alone at the end of the classroom, immersed in the comic world he drew.
However, Nathan and his group of rugby friends were unwilling to let him go. They wet the paper towels, crumpled them into a ball, and then started "passing" practice——
a. One more.
Did you see the man on the podium? uncertain.
Did anyone else in the classroom see it? uncertain.
The camera is always focused on Alex without switching. Naturally, there is no view of other areas, and everything else in the classroom is background sound. The only thing that's certain is that the class didn't stop; at the same time, those "passing drills" didn't stop either.
Alex silently went to the bathroom and cleaned himself up; then silently, he wandered around the school alone, without doing anything special or making any special movements. He stood in the aisle of the campus restaurant. With.
No one noticed him among the students coming and going. None.
Standing in the middle of the restaurant, the noise in the world became louder little by little, as if someone was pushing the switch of the stereo to the limit, and finally it turned into a loud noise exploding in Alex's mind.
Alex held his head in his hands and struggled.
However, everything was normal around him, and students were coming and going passing him. No one stopped.
So, Alex went home.
"Brittany, Jordan and Nicole".
Three girls, they discussed how handsome and cute Nathan was, how fierce and domineering Nathan's girlfriend was, they discussed daily routine, beauty, and weight loss, and they complained that the little sisters had stayed away from this small group because they started dating, and they valued sex over friends. The actions should be strongly condemned.
Nicole had to defend herself again and again. She was defeated by Brittany and Jordan's joint attacks, and the food on the plate was almost untouched.
But.
One second we were arguing, and the next second we were overjoyed with our shopping plans.
After the meal in the campus restaurant, the food on the plate was barely touched, but we still went to the bathroom hand in hand, and everyone entered a cubicle.
After a while, there was a sound of vomiting inside.
Those invisible things are actually happening quietly all the time——
For Alex and Michelle, these are visible; in addition, there are The tension between Brittany, Jordan, and Nicole, their cohesion around other girls, and their body anxieties are invisible.
A rule that has never been said out loud always exists on campus, unknowingly changing the status of their interpersonal relationships in the school.
Are these injuries obvious?
No. At least, it wasn't a visible wound, nor was it acted upon.
However, this does not mean that they do not exist.
They are hidden in daily life, and they settle deep in the heart. Finally, it turned into scars.
Precisely because campus life is normal, as if nothing has happened, whether you turn a blind eye or take it for granted, such banal evil is even more chilling.
Little by little, it seeps out from the calm lens.
Maybe the audience realizes it, maybe not.
However, at this moment, sitting in the Lumiere Hall, I felt a numbness on the soles of my feet, and goose bumps began to appear on the surface of my skin. I couldn't help but shrink my shoulders, wondering if it was from the Lumiere Hall. The air conditioner is turned on too high.
When the camera returned to Alex again, the big boy sat quietly and peacefully in front of the piano, the melody of "For Alice" gurgling from under his fingertips.
Soothing, melodious, romantic. It is in line with the atmosphere on campus and perfectly connected, but the chilling horror and weirdness gradually overflows into the cold and restrained classical music.
A little unfamiliar and a little green, but he is extremely serious, and you can see a trace of happiness on that green baby face, immersed in the melody.
Even the appearance of his good friend Eric could not interrupt him.
However, Alex didn't mind.
When Eric entered Alex's house, it was like entering his own bedroom. He lay down on Alex's bed, took the laptop on the bedside and started playing games——< br>
Gun game.
On one side, Alex was playing the piano; on the other side, Eric was particularly excited to play games.
Finally, the song "For Alice" was played. Alex sat down on the sofa next to Eric, took the laptop from Eric's lap, and started searching and opening web pages. .
Gun.
“Free”, “Free”, although there was no time to carefully examine the content of the webpage, the eye-catching words “Free” next to the gun picture easily stood out.
In the next shot, the situation changes.
The sky was indigo, the clouds moved quietly, blocking the sunlight silently, and the large clouds made the whole world dark.
Boom, boom.
Thunder was rolling, and the sky that was bright not long ago had suddenly turned black and disappeared into the night, as if it might collapse at any time.
The camera shows Alex calmly curling up on the bed to take a nap, while Eric is lying on the sofa next to him, sleeping soundly like a cat.
The so-called changes in the wind and clouds and the color of the world are actually just one noon. By the time Alex and Eric got up, lunch had been prepared, and the bright golden sunshine was shining on Alex’s innocent face. On his face, Alex was smiling and in a happy mood.
The world is peaceful.
So, is the change in the sky just now a real weather phenomenon, or does it refer to the changes in the child's inner emotions? Or is it a combination of both?
I was stunned, and a trivial picture emerged in my mind. The first scene of the movie is the changing sky, and it runs all the way through. It aims at the sky, focusing on the changes in the sun and clouds, focusing on the changes in light, similar to The picture appeared more than once, like a projection of one's state of mind, and like God looking down on the world.
The whole movie seems calm, just recording the daily fragments of campus life, but the images and sounds in the camera are always providing more information, deeply penetrating into the audience's thoughts and blood——
This is the movie.
Rather than lines or plot, I focus more on lens language.
Maybe Gus Van Sant is not a lens master like Ingmar Bergman, but he can also hide these lenses in the film narrative without leaving a trace, quietly affecting The emotions of the audience.
The picture only flashed briefly, and not all viewers in the Lumière Hall could clearly realize this, and then they were once again involved in the documentary-style ordinary daily life, those changes, those abnormalities , quietly scattered deep in the brain, lurking and waiting.
The changing weather seems to be just an ordinary thunderstorm. The kitchen scene in the camera is completely harmonious.
Alex’s parents were both there and prepared a small but substantial lunch for the two children——
Pancakes.
The dishes are not rich, but the portions are sufficient and filling.
Eric looked at Alex with a big smile on his face, munching on the pancakes and letting out a silly laugh.
Life returned to normal again, as if this was an ordinary afternoon. The two older boys chose to skip school, play games at home, eat junk food and talk about non-nutritious nonsense, squandering their time wantonly, as if every day Just like an adolescent child.
(End of this chapter)