郊游 (2002)

　　2002德国剧情爱情片《郊游》由汉纳·温克勒导演，Steven Sperling主演，影片讲述的是：
World cinema has never been short of films about alienated teenagers but it’s extremely rare to find one so consistently wellobserved as School Trip an enormously promising debut from director Winckler who cowrote the script with Stefan Kriekhaus Their sympathetic understanding of the rhythms and details of adolescent life recalls Lukas Moodysson’s Fucking Amal – School Trip is very strong on the children’s sudden jealousies and friendships the harsh insideroutsider dynamics of teenage cliques their selfcontained worlds designed to shut out blundering adults – the teacher “in charge” is a spectacularly ineffectual peripheral pretty much irrelevant figure
But while Moodysson tricked up his movie with a distracting reliance on clumsy zooms and a wobbly handheld camera Winckler plays it mercifully straight As the bald informative title suggests this isn’t a project that calls out for visual flash sand Winckler’s strengths lie elsewhere – principally in his handling of his young cast He shows a rare knack with actors from the tiniest bit part to the three main leads and he conjures a sensational performance out of Sperling
His Ronny is a sustained feat of characterisation mostly internalised but also packed full of amusing revealing bits of business – the ‘solo ping pong’ scene is worth the price of admission on its own This is a young man who moves between being the class clown an idiotsavant an artisticgeniusinembryo and a wouldbe sociopath – sometimes all in the same scene His young face obscured by a bumfluff moustache and encroaching sideburns it’s hard to tell his exact age but he’s more mature than the rest of the gang his biggest problem isn’t that he doesn’t think enough it’s that he thinks far too much although he actually says very little and when he does speak it’s largely to voice his contempt for these ‘jerks’ He’s so sardonic in fact that we can probably take the slogan emblazoned across the back of his cheap nylon jacket ‘Free Spirits Party Place’ as an intentional bit of irony on his part
It’s no accident that one of the museum trips see the boredtotears class being told about the habits of ‘an early stone age tribe’ They endure the tedious lecture – only Ronny has the nerve to actually do something about it He’s also the only one who has enough ambition and daring to break free of the resort’s dismal confines and explore the wider world if only for a few hours just as he’s careful to liberate a wasp that’s flown into one of the hotel rooms and keeps buzzing against the window anxious for freedom
What Ronny finds out there is sufficiently weird and funny in an excellent hitchhiking scene to make breaking free seem like the only sensible option even if the other kids see his tendency to ‘run away’ as a weakness By the end however things aren’t so clearcut – events take a tragic though admirably unsentimental turn forcing Ronny into a searching selfexamination and ending the film on a sober satisfyingly ambiguous note even as the credits roll to the upbeat racket of raucous Polish rock Winckler could do worse than to return to this character and this actor in future years – Ronny could turn out to be the 21st century’s Antoine Doinel and then some