《Youth Diary》Plot introduction

The reversals and twists in the plot of the currently popular "Youth Diary" make it impossible to predict the subsequent plot development, which has become one of the most attractive features of the show.Whether it is in terms of appearance, acting skills or plot, the play can quickly and accurately attract people's attention.Today we are specifically providing some personal answers to the audience’s doubts about the plot introduction of "Diary of a Youth".

《Youth Diary》An unsigned suicide note and a group of seemingly unharmed students reminded middle school teacher Zheng Sir of a childhood full of violence and regret.He also faces the separation of his wife and his father's critical illness. At the same time, he must find the classmate who attempted suicide to prevent the tragedy from happening again.The winning film of the 5th First Feature Film Project in the Tertiary College Category.

The film adopts a dual-line narrative structure, with past-tense stories and present-tense stories intersecting and running in parallel.

The movie opens in the present tense. The man who appears is the first male protagonist of the movie. His name is Zheng Zijun. He is about 30 years old. He is a Chinese teacher in a middle school in Hong Kong. He has a delicate temperament and a cowardly character, that is, he has a lot of inner drama and strong internal friction., but few have the courage to take action...

The movie transitions to the past tense. The boy who appears is named Zheng Zijie. He is 10 years old. He is a primary school student in Hong Kong (has already repeated the grade for a year and may have to repeat the grade again). He has a delicate temperament and works very hard to be a good boy who makes his parents proud., but unfortunately my brain is not very smart...

A typical manifestation of Zheng Zijun's character [internal conflict but young courage] is when the school discovered a student's handwritten suicide note, the vice-principal didn't take it seriously at all, and even joked that the student had plagiarized the work. Although he was so angry that he wanted to punch him to death.The empathetic vice-principal just acted out a drama in his mind, and he just sat there quietly and cowardly, without saying a word.

Zheng Zijie's "not too smart" became more prominent because he had a smart younger brother as a foil. He also learned piano. His younger brother could perform on stage, but he could only watch from the audience. After the concert, he wanted his parents to do the same.I felt proud of myself, so in front of the principal, I took the initiative to ask my mother in English if she wanted to pour a cup of water for her?But it caused my father to get furious in the car on the way home - it was “a glass of water”!!!

The main plot and cross-narratives of "Diary of a Youth" can be summarized as - a campus suicide note brings out the deep regrets of an ordinary teacher's youth.

However, when all the viewers in the cinema thought that the two-line narrative of the movie was the reflection of the "protagonist in his 30s in the present tense" and the "protagonist in his 10s in the past tense", the movie had a huge twist.Reversal...

Zheng Zijun is Zheng Zijun, and Zheng Zijie is Zheng Zijie. They are brothers, two people.

Zheng Zijun in the present tense is the “smart brother”, and Zheng Zijie in the past tense is the stupid brother“.

In the past tense, ”idiot brother“ Zheng Zijie jumped from the rooftop when he was 10 years old. He used the most decisive method to freeze his life, and also poked a bloody hole in the heart of ”smart brother% Zheng Zijun, which hurt him so much.I will never find my complete self again.

It wasn't until the middle of the movie that the portrait of 10-year-old Zheng Zijie suddenly appeared on the big screen. The two intersecting narrative lines of the movie's present tense and past tense finally converged, and the deep theme of the movie was truly revealed for the first time.Light up - suicide!Teenager commits suicide!!

These two words and six words are enough to explain the weight of this movie - Diary of a Young Man.

In the past tense of the film, what is narrated is the experiences of brothers Zheng Zijie and Zheng Zijun in their native families during their childhood. Every family scene in the film steadily advances the ending of Zheng Zijie's suicide.

The original families of brothers Zheng Zijie and Zheng Zijun should belong to the ordinary middle class in Hong Kong. Their father is engaged in a knowledge-intensive industry and their mother is a full-time housewife. The family lives in a building in a small apartment. The two brothers sleep in bunk beds, but there is a live-in nanny to take care of the housework.

My father was a decent man to the outside world, but at home he showed the dark and tyrant side of human nature. He would ridicule his mother for using the money he earned to do charity and show off, and slap her to the ground with a slap; he would also yell at her.He went to his son's room, punched and kicked him, and tore up his beloved comic books...

My mother is a decent person externally, but she is a submissive woman on the inside. When her husband violently beats her, she does not dare to resist; when her husband violently beats her son, she will just stay aside and pretend not to notice; she has no words at home.She can neither gain the true respect of her husband nor truly understand her sons...

“Smart brother” Zheng Zijun is a decent person to the outside world, because he is the only “proud” of the family - with excellent grades and excellent piano - so he habitually sleeps in the upper bunk and listens to his brother's voice coming from the lower bunk.The cry when being beaten by his father; the habit of enjoying the pocket money given by his father which is much higher than that of his brother; the habit of being arranged by his father to meet the principal of a gifted elementary school alone; the habit of being taken alone to Disneyland in the United States...…

Children love to dream.Because children have not yet established a correct understanding of themselves and the world in their minds, and they cannot distinguish between reality and dreams.

Children are also very fragile.Because the child's heart has not yet grown layers of thick cocoons and shells to protect itself and resist all kinds of unreasonableness and unfairness in the outside world.

When you grow up, experience more things, and meet more people, people will always become more realistic and stronger.

Unfortunately, 10-year-old Zheng Zijie decided to end his life without waiting for himself to grow up.Just when his father and mother took their “outstanding brother” Zheng Zijun to Disneyland in the United States, Zheng Zijie jumped off the rooftop alone.He could finally stop dreaming about the unrealistic dream of being among the top 15 in the class, and finally he could no longer curl up in the quilt and cry weakly.

There is also a very wonderful key detail in the movie's narration of this suicide - the father concealed the fact of suicide and declared to the outside world in an honorable manner that the eldest son died of illness.

However, in the mourning hall, 9-year-old Zheng Zijun looked at the portrait of his 10-year-old brother. His heart finally collapsed and was completely pierced by a bloody hole.

Zheng Zijun, who is now in his 30s, finally admitted that just like his father and mother, when he was young, he did not regard his brother as a family member deep down in his heart.

Of course, I feel that the expression of the movie has not directly penetrated the deepest darkness of the soul - growing up in such a native family, Zheng Zijun should have even been lucky to have such a “idiot brother” who was regarded as an inferior comparison object, because, there is noComparison is not enough to reflect his “smartness” and “excellence”.

However, children still have too simple imaginations about the world.

What do the “smart” and “excellent” within a small family who are compared with “idiot brother” count in the face of this huge, cruel, hierarchical world where beasts are everywhere?

His elder brother Zheng Zijie died, and Zheng Zijun became the only son in the family.

However, as he grew older, Zheng Zijun gradually became ordinary. He did not make any deeper progress in his studies, nor did he have any deeper attainments in piano. He did not enter the middle class that his father wanted him to enter.Instead of being qualified for a knowledge-intensive industry - becoming a lawyer or a doctor, he became an extremely ordinary middle school Chinese teacher...

When you grow up, you will get better;

When you grow up, you will become more powerful;

When you grow up, you will become what you want to be...

No, not really.

The 10-year-old brother Zheng Zijie committed suicide, so he never grew up.

My younger brother Zheng Zijun, who is in his 30s, has grown up, but he has not grown up into a powerful adult.

The movie - Diary of a Youth - has an elegant narrative and warm painting style. In addition to the theme of suicide, it also reveals an extremely disillusioning truth about life - most of us will find ourselves after waking up from the dream of youth., will not grow into a powerful adult...

However, this movie is not gray.

After the death of his elder brother, the life of his younger brother Zheng Zijun continued step by step.He met a girl who liked talking to dolls just like his brother, and that girl happened to like him, so they ended up getting together.

After his brother's death, his younger brother Zheng Zijun became a teacher. Although the movie does not clarify whether this choice subconsciously inherited his brother's ideals or was just a decent career choice, it is ultimately a choice.A de facto echo and spiritual transmission.

The movie - Diary of a Young Man - does an excellent job of echoing and conveying the spirit of various plot details in the past tense and present tense. In addition to marrying a girl who has the same hobbies as my brother, in addition to becoming the teacher that my brother wanted to be,Also like, shouting, like, hugging.

In the past tense, the 10-year-old Zheng Zijie and the 9-year-old Zheng Zijun climbed to the rooftop and shouted to express their emotions about the world; in the present tense, the teacher Zheng Zijun drove to the top of the mountain with the social worker and the female monitor who had committed suicide., to express emotions towards the world.

In the past tense, the piano teacher Chen would hug Zheng Zijie tenderly and encourage him when he could not play a complete piece of music; in the present tense, the female class monitor who had committed suicide was finally moved by Zheng Zijun's sincerity after being perfunctory at first., she told Zheng Zijun that she was “ happy” while working hard with him to find the classmate who wrote the suicide note, because she was finally no longer alone. She liked staying with her teacher, and she took the initiative to hug her teacher Zheng., Teacher Zheng Zijun also responded to the hug.

Until the end of the movie, it is not clearly stated which student in the present tense wrote the suicide note that stirred up and connected the entire story.

However, teacher Zheng Zijun, who has a character of "internal conflict but young courage" in the film, expressed his thoughts clearly and bravely in public for the first time when teaching the last lesson to the students who were about to take the joint entrance examination - Zheng Zijun took the initiative to write on the blackboardHe gave him his mobile phone number and took the initiative to let his students find him at any time when they were unhappy.

Movies, after all, have the idealism of movies.

Soon, Zheng Zijun received a message asking for help from a student. They met and talked. Regardless of whether the student was the one who wrote the suicide note, at this moment, he was saved.

At this point, Zheng Zijun in the present tense has finally completed the life rescue of his student, and also completed the life rescue of his 10-year-old brother Zheng Zijie in the past tense.

Zheng Zijun, who is in his 30s, stood on the rooftop where he once stood with his brother. What he looked at was his 10-year-old brother who finally smiled happily.

The bloody hole in Zheng Zijun's heart was finally filled.

Saving others is also saving yourself.

That’s it for the plot introduction of - Diary of a Young Man. I hope it helps everyone. If you want to know more about plot analysis and character analysis later, you can continue to pay attention to the line class.