"Obviously The Shining remains the greatest Stephen King adaptation ever made, but Stand By Me is the one I love beyond all measure. It's the warmest, the saddest and the funniest, too: a lovely, grubby ode to the joys of misspent youth. I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12, remarks small-town adventurer Gordie Lachance, who sets off with his pals to find a dead body in the woods."
"We had to skip the last five minutes in order to catch the last bus home to our own small town. This infuriated me at the time, but now feels all of a piece. It means that Stand By Me's heart-piercing final scene the four kids ambling back into Castle Rock at dawn is inextricably bound up with that long, slow bus ride through the night as my friend recounted the movie's ending, explaining how friendships wane and heroes die,"
Stand By Me embodies warmth, sadness and humour while serving as an ode to misspent youth and childhood friendship. The film centers on Gordie Lachance and his friends as they embark on a morbid adventure to find a dead body, and it captures the bittersweet nature of early bonds. A personal viewing experience in adolescence transformed the film's final dawn scene into a memory tied to a late-night bus ride, reinforcing themes of fading friendships and lost heroes. The piece also contrasts A Few Good Men as a propulsive, preposterous legal drama emblematic of its era.
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