It's a pity the times

Carmela 2022-04-20 09:02:10

The director wants to use a very grand concept to make such a very life-like film, just like the title, there are also a lot of macro narratives in the film, narration with constantly switching characters, as well as historical photos, psychedelic highways Shots and so on, the idea is unique, but that's what makes the film's point of view very unfocused and scattered. On the contrary, under this macro theme, the characterization of this family is very successful, and every role is full, especially Annette Bening has not played a leading role in the film for a long time, and her superb acting skills make people very attractive. In addition, due to the very modern shooting techniques and the texture of the lens, the story of the 1970s has no sense of the times at all, and it is also unpleasant.

View more about 20th Century Women reviews

Extended Reading
  • Leif 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Elle Fanning taught me how to be a man, how to love a woman and how to satisfy a woman.

  • Kayley 2022-03-23 09:02:39

    An enhanced version of the feel-good town growth story of a lonely boy vs a beautiful girl (becoming a mother, a female tenant sister, and a bed partner girl). Continuing the editing strategy of "Life of a Novice", the marginal and small characters in the big era are embellished with seemingly macro era references (before Reagan took office at the end of the 70s, Ji Jin's noisy late sound). Mom is especially cute, trying to trend old-school clothes (?), Annette Bening. Mother and son are the only two with narration.

20th Century Women quotes

  • Dorothea: My son was born in 1964. He grew up with a meaningless war, with protests, with Nixon, with nice cars and nice houses, computers, drugs, boredom. I know him less every day.

  • Abbie: So I had this new idea for my photography that I was gonna take a picture of everything that I owned so it's a self-portrait of myself through the stuff that I have. Can I show you? So... bra, birth control, um, photography by Susan Sontag, shoes, underwear, a picture of a picture of my mom. I'm gonna do a bunch of 'em.