Stand by Me

four boys said “let’s go look at a corpse” and accidentally had a spiritual awakening and lifelong trauma this movie is like if summer break had anxiety and cigarettes verne was just trying to eat snacks and stay alive while the others were out there facing the existential dread of adolescence gordie literally went “i’m emotionally repressed and grieving but also i tell fire stories and cry in the woods” and chris?? the moral compass, the ride or die, the boy who carried the whole friend group and my heart that scene by the campfire?? when they talked like actual kids and not weirdly wise adults?? PEAK cinema i’m still mad about that leech scene. i was unprepared and so were they also why do all the bullies in 80s movies act like they’ve committed war crimes at age 17 i watched this thinking it’d be a little adventure and left emotionally collapsed on the floor reflecting on life, death, memory, and lost friendships