The film Stand By Me by Rob Reiner, teaches young viewers about life. The film revolutionizes and challenges how young viewers perceive the world. Stand By Me follows a quartet of young inseparable boys on a elusive and irrevocable quest to discover a dead child's body, where they are suffused into the pressures of adolescence, and uncertainty. It delves into the troubled dispositions of each characters whom are ostracized by their families.
It explores the coming of age, as the young boys move closer destination, tension arises as they are overwhelmed by the solemness of what they are to find.It also emphasises that death is an essential and inevitable part of life, as illustrated by the untimely death of a young boy, Ray Brower. Stand By Me teaches young viewers that experiences can alter relationships, which ordeals individuals' bonds of connection towards each other. This articulated through the utilization of diagetic sounds as well as camera angle/movements and editing techniques, in order to capture the characters' motifs, expressions and esteem. The coming of age is a significant message conveyed in the film Stand By Me.This is scrutinized through the young boys Chris, Gordie, Teddy and Vern.
This climax-near end scene is the convergence of the 'gangs' , where the two gangs are on the site of Ray Brower's body, a boy who was hit by a train. The scene between Ace, Chris and Gordie is imperative as it creates suspense, accumulated by the high-pitched diagetic sound of a violin, and has also transformed the rites of passage of each character. A diagetic sound of a gun blast was emit in the scene, and the camera cuts to a close up shot of Gordie holding a gun - "I'll kill you, I swear to God".This close up shot of Gordie holding a gun enforces that Gordie has purged himself of all child-like innocence and gullibility. Gordie and Chris have entered a new and perilous phase of their life, having been matured to an extent to have threatened Ace.
This scene was the catalyst of the boys' transition from the security of childhood into a precarious atrocities world of the adult world. Stand By Me also accentuates how experience can transform connections between individuals.As the journey to film the dead corpse reaches conclusion, the young boys depart separate ways, except Chris and Gordie. This is depicted in the established shot, of the young boys in nature, a glowing scene where the sun is raising which signifies inception in the boys’ life, that they will be entering a new milestone.
The long shot of the boys of the boys aligned, with equitable distance between each other foreshadows that the experience of glimpsing at the face of death for the first time had catalyzed different perceptions, as well as growth.The experience had influenced them in different ways, thus instigating a barrier between each other. The point of view shot of Vern and Teddy walking in separate paths establishes that they will no longer be a part of each other's future, and the journey to find the dead body has dejected their connections "As time went by we saw less and less of Teddy and Vern, until eventually they became just two more faces in the halls". Finally, Stand By Me teaches that death is an essential and inevitable part of life, as it clarifies that death can come at any age at any time.
The death of Ray Brower, hit by a train has explicated them that boys as young as them are susceptible to death, in contrast to their belief that death cannot succumb children "I'm acting my age... I'm on the prime of my youth". The mid shot of Ray Brower, bloodied and blackness in his eyes was a distressing sight for the young boys, as the camera quickly cuts to their expression of shock, and sorrow This highlights that the boys are strangers to the concept of death.
The diegesis of the adult Gordie voice-over reinforces that he remembers articulately the powerful sentiment of having seen Ray Brower.Seeing the face of death for the first time had prevailing impact on all of the three boys but particularly Gordie, who's deceased brother have a connection with Ray Brower's death. Gordie starts weeping heavily "Why did Danny have to die, Chris? ". Gordie's rhetorical question to Chris conveys that Gordie is still grieving for his brother, and questions death's way of claiming loved ones as well as its existence. In conclusion, the film Stand By Me teaches young viewers about life. This was communicated through the protagonists Chris, Gordie, Teddy and Vern, who embark on an adventure from childhood to maturity.
The young boys were subjected to intellectual and emotional growth, greater conflict and major obstacles, which have revolutionized them in various. The journey has taught the viewers about life by exploring the coming of age from all the four characters, the catalyst of their transformation from childhood to adolescence. It has illuminated the audience on how incidents can revolutionize connections and has also conveyed the certainty of death, how it is predestined and elemental. Overall, Stand By Me is a gripping and poignant film with compelling messages about life through the experiences of four, dedicated peers.
