Clap your hands!
School, boys, a leader, and rivals. Blue Spring is a school movie where friendship and leadership are put to the test. There’s not much violence in Blue Spring. It’s about selected characters who have to make some hard and critical decisions in their life.
The students run the school. The teachers don’t give a damn about the students. Many of the students choose to drop out of school to become gangsters. Those who remain are fighting for honor and glory.
We never get under the skin of the characters when the runtime is so short. It’s 82 minutes or something. The characters we get a little familiar with disappear just as quickly.
There are only two characters we get closer to. They are best friends, and one of them is the clapping king at the school and the school leader. He has become very withdrawn, and his best friend is having a hard time communicating with him, so he gets frustrated.
But even with his short runtime, I feel Blue Spring has substance and meaning about teenage anxiety and taking the next step into adulthood. Many of the students find little meaning in studying. The funny thing is that representatives of the yakuza are just waiting to get new members, or they are looking for a new territory to take over. They hang outside the school like great white sharks. We also see several symbolic scenes that I liked.
Blue Spring is a cult classic and with good reason. It’s a movie that’s interesting if you can relate to the characters and the school environment they are in. The cinematography is great, and the actors deliver the goods. And the movie is also funny at times.