4.2.08

The Sweet Sixteen










The unique Scotland accent English still hover by my ears after watching the Sweet Sixteen by Ken Loach.
The whole film follow a warm-hearted boy who has a dream before 16 but the dream has not came true in the end. I feel there is a needle pricking my heart when his dream breaking.
Lem is expecting his imminent “sixteen” and preparing do something for his mum who will be released sonly. He bought a van which at riverside and he took his sister to live together. Because of this dream, he and some of his close friends need to raise lots of money so they sell drug and do some dangerous things. All of these just because he want to build a sweet home for his mum. His sister has hurt by mum for many times, but she still supports Lem to achieve his dream.
However, not all the things can be successful. These puerile teenagers were caught by a gangster. Accidentally, Lem, this tricky boy seemed as a talented boy by the ringleader of the gangster. Lem took the first lesson is he should break away from his close friends. During the process of Lem becoming a man from a boy, he should learn how to cut his relation off. He should away from all his friends and even his sister. Then he has to make a deal with the villain for saving his mum.
Lem finally bought the van and made some simple decoration making it looks sweet. But the sweet van is derided by Lem mum. The dream of “sweet sixteen” has been broken at that moment.
I was thinking of The Four Hundred Blows by Francois Truffaut in 1959 when I watching the Sweet Sixteen. The traitorous teenager is endeared by films. Obviously, both of the two mischievous boys get two mischievous mothers. Leo wants to get away from the home. However, Lem want his mum going back home and he rebuilds the fragmentized home before his mum releasing.
After watching this film, I have experienced joys and sorrows of life as though. The traitorous problem of teenager always grows from a problem family. Similarly, the object of they anti-social is family or school. Lem took the dagger and pricked. With this action, all of the doctrine and frame of Ken Loach is falling momentary. This is the “four hundred blows” by Ken’s style. With the prick, all the sweet dream of sixteen gone with wind.

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