Ten punk movies, rediscover the feeling of being alive

May Day holiday recommended film, not to engage in small love small love small fresh, also do not come to thriller suspense adrenaline, recommended ten classic punk movies. There are documentaries, biographical movies, and purely fictional works. When watching the movie, try to briefly detach yourself from the moment, do not worry, do not panic, please experience the most direct emotions like a punk, smashing the piano, hoarse voice, staring straight into the hole of nothingness. So operate a little, wish you a long vacation to rediscover the feeling of being alive.

1. A Band Called Death (2012)

Death was an all-black punk band active in Detroit in the 1970s, and that alone is a rarity. The three Hackney brothers debuted a few years before The Ramones did. They also had a pioneering name for the band, "Very White", which made people forget their skin color and was close to the influence of The Who.

The soul of the band, David Hackney, died young, but the spirit lived on long enough for the remaining two brothers to survive the band's career, and in 2009 the band's collection For The Whole World To See was re-released, with a feature in The New York Times, a tour, and the release of a new album.

Punk has always had a sense of vulnerability. "The Dead were perhaps tougher because they were all black. The band's descendants have even formed a new band called Rough Francis to ensure that the songs of their fathers will continue to be sung.

2. Sid and Nancy (1986)

Based on the work of Sid Vicious (bassist for The Sex Pistols), the band's first album, Sid Vicious (1986)

is the first of its kind to be released. Sid Vicious, despite Gary Oldman's efforts to starve himself, couldn't be Sid Vicious. Chloe Webb's Nancy combines the qualities of a blonde baby and a blonde beauty to such an extreme that it's almost unbearable.

The lovers, who take a shot before kissing, are on the road to depravity straight to the finish line. When the other members of the Sex Pistols complained about Sid to band manager Malcolm McLaren, McLaren laughed and said, "Sid's not just a bass player, he's a great disaster. He was a symbol, a metaphor, he was the face of the Empty Generation." In a nutshell: Sid Vicious is the Sex Pistols.

3. The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

In the 1970s, young Westerners saw a bleak future. They saw the decline of civilization just around the corner and rushed to doomsday revelry. Filmed at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, this documentary takes aim at the Los Angeles punk scene. Most impressive is a tour of the offices of the punk magazine Slash. Every employee is beautiful, the men all look like Gregory Peck, the women each have a different look. Punk is against glamor, punk thinks life is meaningless, maybe beauty itself is the meaning.

4. What We Do is Secret (2007)

What Darby Clash, the lead singer of The Germs, who died at 22, was like, we've forgotten. The biopic All We Do Is Sing Punk recruited Shane West to play him, and because he acted and sang so well, West, who had been the lead singer of a punk band, became the new lead singer of The Germs, completing a tour with the group.

The movie is an embellished version of the true story, which was much uglier. The death of Darby Crash on screen also pales in comparison to Ian Curits and Sid Vicious when it comes to representing the death of a punk. Darby is rushed to his death as if in a stupor, and Curits and Vishers are martyred. Darby is easily replaced and "resurrected" in a banal and beautiful way, but he was there.

5. Suburbia (1997)

Small-town youth are so annoying. Empty, incompetent, racist, incapable, and unwilling to stay at home, they go out in droves and make a mess everywhere they go like locusts. In order to escape the fate of endless television, stealing food from the freezer to barbecue, and putting the heads of pet rats in their mouths, they formed a band called The Rejected, who denied the meaning of family and saw each other as family, but it just couldn't last.

6. The Blank Generation (The Blank Generation , 2007)

The movie is only 55 minutes long and consists of a bunch of rare footage of the show. Whether it's a later legend or a shooting star, the camera treats the punks equally. Black-and-white imagery, demo textures, and intentional sonic dissonance convey a nod to No Wave. There's almost no language, just music mixed with lots of ambient sounds.

If this can be aesthetically pleasing (and it is), it can only mean that all of the people, including the director and the contributors, had a vision of the future at the time it happened. In a trance, they stood in the future quietly gazing at themselves back then, letting the coarseness and brutality produce the warmth and reasonableness unique to old things.

7, "24 Hour Party People" (24 Hour Party People , 2002)

Anthony Wilson's "Factory" label incubated Joy Division and later a new version of New Order, and this musical biopic is from Wilson's point of view. From Wilson's point of view, this music biopic tensions the marginalized Factory's efforts to keep itself from being subsumed by the London music industry. Wilson's idealism is reflected in the fact that he shared his income equally with the artists, taking out contracts that were barely binding on them. But Wilson succeeded. His Hacienda club became the home of New Order and a host of other bands, as well as the Manchester dance scene.

There's a lot of detail in the movie that only insiders understand, but there's also a pervasive vibe that everyone can relate to. It's the kind of vibe that is born when one person's funk is also everyone else's funk.

8. The Punk Rock Movie , 1978

The British version of The Dazed and Confused Generation was edited from a handful of footage with worrying pixelation and sound quality. The images are not only dangerous, they smell like blood. Someone smashes a pig's head on stage and throws the crumbs offstage. Punks were like little kids competing to see whose pranks were more outlandish and whose offenses were more serious. Today it seems that their dress and behavior stood out more than the music, so today punk music is in decline and seventies dress is still sought after.

9. The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)

An outing for the Sex Pistols, this movie features Sid Vicious, Malcolm McLaren and Steve Jones, plus a bunch of bands. Video, and that's about it. But some people think it's the best punk movie of all time because it's true. True in this case not in the sense of historical accuracy, but true in the sense of the punk spirit. It's the most offensive to punks of any movie of this kind, daring to suggest that these young men weren't out for martyrdom, but only for fame and fortune. It was Malcolm McLaren himself who said this, not some old geezer with a mind corrupted by cynicism.

McLaren teaches the kids to mock hippies for "being old farts," Jones walks into a movie theater to see the film, and Syd performs a deranged version of "My Way" and shoots the audience (including his own old mom) offstage. They strategize and plan to make the public love them, then hate them, then love them again. It's only by ravaging the public's emotions in this way that they've shaped their own legend and made a fortune.

10, "We Are The Besrt! (We Are The Besrt!, 2013)

If you need to draw straws to decide where you're born, these three 13-year-olds drew the upper hand - a small town in Stockholm, Sweden, with an enlightened, affluent culture and "the world's most interesting clouds." The time is 1982, and the brother of one of the young girls tells them that punk is dead.

The story of the teenage punk band tells us that rebellion is inherent in human genes, and exists in some proportion in all populations. The reason the girls rebelled may have been as trivial as "hating sports". Then the situation escalates and they set fires, litter, protest against "capitalism" in the supermarket, and do what young girls of their age do. Music and behavior are not more advanced or mature, they are part of growing up, or the peak.

Proofread by Luan Meng