The Dilemma of Adolescents in Different Cultural Contexts—A Comparative Study of “Youth Diary” and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

Abstract

As an important carrier of cultural dissemination, movies not only record social reality, but also obtain perceptible forms at the social level through specific narrative and visual strategies. By comparing and analyzing "Youth Diary" and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", this article attempts to understand the presentation and generation mechanisms of adolescent difficulties in different cultural contexts from the perspective of visual writing. The adolescent dilemma is not a projection of a single social problem, but the result of continuous construction and reproduction under the joint action of family structure, social value norms, and education system.