There are surprisingly many people who do not know this work. So I'll look it up. Of course it's one of my favorite movies. The title is Flipped - it actually means "the state of having pods in your eyes". There are expressions such as turned upside down, banged up, etc., but ugh!
A poor family who lives in a shabby house in a middle-class neighborhood. There is also a cute-looking girl in the house. The child's name is Julie Baker (Madeline Carroll). One day, a fairly wealthy family moves across the house. There is also a very cute-looking boy in this house. His name is Bryce Loski (Callan McAuliffe). Julie falls in love with Bryce the same age as Julie from the moment she first sees her, and she likes him through elementary, middle, and high school. But as she gets older she hides her love for him deep inside her heart, but Bryce is always in her gaze. On the other hand, Bryce finds out about her unchanging love late, and the movie goes like this.
There is a scene in the middle of the movie where Julie has a conversation with her father. Julie really enjoys talking to her father when he is painting her. In fact, it's not that Julie's father is poor because he doesn't have enough money, it's that his grown-up brother has had a disability since childhood, and the family's finances are tight to pay for his facilities (Julie later finds out). Always prudent and quiet, a father sees her daughter often telling the story of her next door neighbor Bryce and asks her where she liked:
Julie:
Mm-hm. I don't know. I g uess it's something about his eyes his. Or maybe his smile.
Dad:
But what about him?
Julie:
What?
Dad:
You have to look at the whole landscape.
Julie:
What does that mean?
Dad:
A painting is more than t he sum of its parts. A cow by itself is just a cow. A meadow by itself is just grass, flowers. And the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light. But you put them all together ... and it can be magic.
When the daughter says she seems to fall in love with Bryce's smile or eyes, the father says that when he sees him, he sees the whole landscape. A painting is an individual grouping together to form one, a cow by itself is just a cow, a lawn is just a field of grass and flowers, and the sun shining through the trees is just a ray of light. I advise you to become a magician. That's cool.
These two families facing each other with a distance from each other, both physically and mentally, cannot afford to take care of their front yard, but the whole family is friendly and the conversation always flows. Of course, among them are mothers and fathers who are caring, considerate, and willing to sacrifice. On the other hand, the other family is materially wealthy, but the internal problems of the father, who is the head of the household, cannot unite the family. There is also a slight sense of loss that he has lost something for the sake of his family, and resentment and complaints about something that has not been achieved in the past seem to affect family members.
Another masterpiece from director Rob Reiner, and one of the few films that I rarely like in the 2000s. Phil Everly's solo song of the Everly Brothers classic "Let It Be Me" also plays in the final scene, and it's beautiful.
The famous line is definitely... this! Julie Baker's monologue: “My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.”
Upload several scenes. The first day Bryce and Julie met!
This is the last scene. Ah, do you have the memory of someone laying his her / her hand on yours?
Roger Ebert also wrote: Maybe what makes "Flipped" such a warm entertainment is how it re-creates a life we wish we'd had when we were 14. That's true for adults, and also I suspect true for some 14- year-olds. In a way the audience flips, too.
In the end, it seems to be true that everyone wants to go back to the past, deeply embedded in their hearts. We get so caught up in our lives that we can't look back and we just get older. I recommend that you go back to the old days while watching this pure film.
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Note: The actress Madeline Carroll (Julie), who played the lead role, is now an adult. She's really good at acting, but she doesn't look good on screen. For religious reasons, it is said that by the time Madeline was in her late teens, Hollywood offered a number of movies that included "a must-go nudity scene" for the actress. She refused all of this and said that she would not appear in such a film. How nice and decent she is.