小大人

导演在处理故事时非常克制，没有引入激烈的戏剧冲突，但其干净的视听语言自带情感张力。

影片中第一次讨论房租问题时，很多观众想必能自然而然地预感到后续的冲突：双方父母未达成一致，孩子因此关系破裂。但至少令我意外的是，导演把冲突平和化、理性化，没有想象中剧烈的争吵与情感宣泄。想象一下在我们当下，有多少父母面对孩子的沉默抗议，能够做到数天（至少4天）还没有情绪失控，还能与孩子相对理性地沟通。这些理性与克制，反而让影片的表达没有被戏剧冲突所淹没，而是聚焦在了经历一些无奈时刻的记忆与感受，可能更能促进我们与生活的和解。

父亲首演后驾车回去的路上，杰克得知父母们处理房租的结果，这是两个情感爆发的时刻。它们都未引来“受众”的对抗，以引向激烈的交锋，而是述说着成人与孩子各自的弱点与无奈（想一想父亲和杰克在各自情绪失控时刻的独白）。现实生活不是童话世界，并不是总能按照我们的意愿发展，也不能满足每一个人的诉求，更多的是会伤害到一些人但又不得不做的决定。于是，妥协与无奈不可避免。

不过，这是生活的一部分，并非生活的全部。致那些无奈时刻，也致那些通过成长与努力而避免的伤害。

关于电影《小小人》little men

也许我们曾经怦然心动，也许释然了…

青春期的无可奈何，失落和焦虑

在现实迅速的成长中只剩下微微一笑……

只看过Ira Sachs的爱很怪，当时被电影里满溢的生活感迷住，安静朴素的的琐碎生活，感情柔软绵长，被两个老爷子的爱情所感动…小小人和爱很怪的风格是一致的，依旧缓慢的将一些微小的情愫串联起来，矛盾和冲突都给予足够的缓冲，很多时候，电影呈现的生活化让我觉得自己像一个电影中没有入镜的老邻居，沉默的注视着这两家人的喜怒哀乐，当jacob玩着直排轮经过小公园，那阵午后的微风混杂着阳光和泥土的味道，轻抚过我的脸，仿佛jacob刚刚经过我的身边旁，我捕捉到了他和tony的相视一笑……

故事关乎于两家人，敏感内敛的艺术小天才jacob有着一个郁郁不得志的演员父亲和一个忙碌持家的心理医生母亲，叛逆洒脱热爱表演的tony那未露面的父亲也许在非洲拼命的工作着，阴郁焦虑的母亲经营着并不景气的服装店…两家人因为jacob爷爷的去世而联系到一起，jacob的父亲成为了tony家新的房东。两个男孩暧昧的友谊火速升温成为了最要好的朋友。此时，双方家长因为实际的经济利益产生矛盾，期间父母和孩子的矛盾爆发，经历了短暂的焦灼和反抗后，两个男孩随父母的决定就此分开，也许再遇见也只是远远的注视…

tony和表演老师练习解放天性的那场戏特别有趣，现场的所有学生以及表演老师都是本色出演，特别真实，不禁想起了我大学上表演课时的各种撒泼卖丑，就这么疯得自得其乐。

导演Q&A中，最后关于片名Little Men, 导演说其实是指每一个角色。

题外话，jacob和tony两个人的面相模样神似emma和小evan（这对貌似订婚，可怜的小快银哈）,我默默在心里期待了好久cp！

我觉得Tony是个gay，看了Q&A没想到是真的，看片的时候一直在YY一个gay男孩爱上了自己异性恋朋友的悲剧。看到父母们不算激烈的撕逼，一直想告诉那两个男孩一声。没想到最后Jacob会轻易地原谅父母，或许他本身性格就是温柔体贴的，如果是我，估计会很久不和父母说话。不过两人最后逐渐生疏倒是预料到了，成长的过程就是不断遇到新的人，建立新的关系，然后和很多以前的朋友渐行渐远，伤感但这也许就是人生。

This part beginning from a dark movements, From the back view, a group of students entered the painting, and the protagonist followed the paintings of everyone. The director's handling of this picture deliberately makes the backlight of the scene brighter than the foreground, so that the audience can shift their attention away from the students who have passed the foreground.Then the lens is very slight, and it is very imperceptible to push to the Jake.

Other students have a good exchange and itobviouslyseems that he is lonely and quiet. From Jake's back shot to Tony in the middle of others and withclassmates for a lively communication, andwith just previous shot thatJake just walked quietly in stark contrast.

The director gave Jake a reaction lens that placed him at one-third of the picture. At the edge of the picture, he formed a protagonist with a sense of inner crisis, and the state of the protagonist looked up, which added to the expression of the protagonist'semotion.After the camera washorizontalshaken to the left, after Tony and the others walk out of tjepicture, Jack returned to the center of the screen.Using painting as a transition, it seems that the character's emotions are cut off here, making the emotions extremely restrained and the lens expressionseemsmore objective.

With the beginning of background music,director added a close-up of Jake's classmates with four different scenes and different positions. Finally, it is a close-up of the main character. It is very interesting to convey that the people around Jake have changed, just like the people around everyone in the real world are constantly changing, sometimes spreading outand getting together.

The background music is only repeated for a whilein the same way, and it can clearly hear its editing points, as if it implies that everything is actually circulating.

I am very appreciatethat the director described the emotions of the characters with an extremely cool lens movement.Most of them are fixed lens.Using a fixed lens can make the audience move away from emotions and turn into thinking.The friendship of Jake and Tony in "Little Men" carries that kind of bittersweet weight. Jake and Tony hold hands over the growing abyss between their parents. They're only 13 years old. Do they know that relationships are fragile and need protection? Do they understand how precious their friendship is, how much they need to hold onto it, how much they will miss it if it ends? These questions carry intense reverberation long after the film ends.

In the class,wealsoreadthis part of the script. In the front part of the script, the screenwriter used the enthusiasm of the guest to describe the alienation of their relationship, echoing the scene of their mother's first meeting.From the lens or the script are deliberately creating a distance between them.But after the script, it was too straightforward. The director simply used the movements and the lens to sublimate the whole movie.Using gestures to describe mental activity is the most difficult task in terms of scriptwriting.I thinkfilmsmainly needs to use the lens language to show the theme and emotions. I think this is the place where fabulous in <Little Men>.The director knows how to do appropriate subtraction in the film.Its smallness makes it grand and moving. These are the things, these little moments, decisions and consequences that most human lives are made of, after all.

This film is very different from the general run of ingratiating middlebrow indies that pop up on screen periodically, drenched with implausibility, sentimentality and lame bet-hedging humour.It is composed with scrupulous observational intelligence and Care. It is really engaging.