150 word about friendship from the movie stand by me
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Stand By Me is one of my favorite movies, I could watch it a hundred times without getting bored. I have watched it in different phases of my life, through various perspectives. Every time I watch it, I learn a new detail that I had not noticed the before. After the end of the movie, I always feel a sad sense of nostalgia.
When I think about Stand by Me, I think about a story of friendship, a reflection of who our friends are and how they affect our lives. I truly believe in the saying “who finds a friend, finds a treasure” and I think this movie draws a perfect picture of the carefree friendship that you can have when you are a teenager. Curiously, it’s based on a Stephen King novel, who is famous for his scary bestsellers such as The Shining. This movie, directed by Rob Reiner in 1986, is anything but frightening.
The film starts with a narrator telling a story, recalling a past event. It’s about that phase of life in which one feels at the end of his childhood, ready to become a young adult. It is the last adventure lived without stopping to think about the risks and the dangers, with only the burning desire to live it. The film takes place in Castle Rock, a small town in Oregon, and it is the warm summer of 1959. Four boys, close to the beginning of high school, decide to follow the train tracks, looking for the dead body of a brotherThe Boys
The protagonist is Gordie Lachance, (played by Will Wheaton, while the adult Gordie is played by Richard Dreyfuss), who is also the narrator of the story. He is a shy boy who has a bad relationship with his parents. They have just been shocked by the death of their eldest son, the family favorite, and Gordie too always admired him. Gordie is a smart and talented writer, but his only reader and fan is his best friend Chris Chambers (played by a very young River Phoenix).
In an interview, director Rob Reiner explained that he wanted to focus more on Gordie, to change the “observer” role he has in King’s book, and Reiner chose to make him the main character. Gordie is the shy guy surmounted by doubts. He doesn’t see himself as a winner like his brother, and he is sad for the lack of parental affection. Through the help of his friend, he becomes more confident and will eventually become a successful writer.It isn’t difficult to catch the metaphor of the movie and understand that the path that the four protagonists have to cross, with all its obstacles. For example, the small lake full of leeches or the risk of getting crushed under a train, avoided only barely, represents the hitches of growing up and of reaching that adult awareness.