A timeless classic of cinema, one of the most beautiful films about childhood, Stand by Me is now available on Netflix: at 1 hour 25 minutes, the film will deeply disturb you. But watch out because it leaves the platform on Saturday, September 30.
The story takes place in the summer of 1959 in Oregon. A teenager goes missing, but his four friends learn that he was hit by a train and that his body was found in the woods. Gordy and his comrades search for the body, find out the truth and be the first to announce it to the public, those who want to know for sure.
Before talking about the film itself, we must mention its young actors. River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, and Wil Wheaton are the young heroes of Stand by Me, where she rubs shoulders with Kiefer Sutherland and John Cusack. The film is directed by Rob Reiner and is adapted from a novel the body By Stephen King, author himself, with support from Reynold Gideon and Bruce Evans.
“I’ve never had the same friends as I did in my twelfth year. God, aren’t we all the same?” This sentence still rings in the head of every Stand by Me viewer. It is almost the definitive film about the end of innocence, the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
What immediately grabs the viewer is the disturbing naturalness with which the young actors interpret these characters: one might think we are watching a documentary because their relationship is genuine and realistic. We believe that they are drawn from life, and we owe that feeling to Rob Reiner, who managed to extract incredible performances from them.
If Stand by Me could be summed up in one word, it would probably be “sincere”. Everything about the story, even the extravagant story of the pie-eating contest invented by Gordy, seems to us to be in place and perfectly in line with the state of mind of the young characters at the moment when it happens.
The expedition of the four boys is clearly an excuse. What King and Reiner are interested in is the way in which a tragic and very real event marks a lifetime for a group of young people and causes them to immediately lose their sense of carelessness. The conclusion of the film, very exciting, will most likely make you angry, but be sure to go to Netflix!
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