Never doubt, rarely pray, sometimes smooth, always grow

Jayce 2022-04-21 09:03:52

I used to think that American teenagers who received a better education than us and were infected with a more diverse social atmosphere would grow up faster and more smoothly than us. But now I have changed my mind. Maybe this is the case in society as a whole. Different societies must shape different generations. But if we break it down to each individual, maybe we are all the same. Everyone’s growth process is different. Not so smooth. We grew up in China, so we had to pay for it. Likewise, they grew up in America, and they have to pay for it. Every country, every age, as long as they are born, they inevitably have to brand their bodies with obligations. The social atmosphere in the United States is open. The female protagonist has a relationship with a man at the age of 14, and has already had six sexual partners at the age of 17. She can feel the beauty of love at the age of a young girl Huaichun, and she inevitably has to bear the price of youthfulness. China's atmosphere is conservative. Many 17-year-olds are still in high school. Parents are very secretive about love, let alone the topic of sex. So our youth always contains sexual repression. The heroine faces physical or psychological violence in teenage relationships. We also face soft violence at school and at home. No one is happier than anyone else, and no one is sadder than anyone else. Our lack of sex education will push back the price of ignorance about sex, see sex as dirty, or marry a child, and so on. They are not sexually restrained enough, which makes young and ignorant youth prone to mistakes. This is the price, the price that must be paid in different circumstances. When we grow up, we gradually begin to understand and respect sex, but youth has long passed. They have grown up and recovered from their youthful indulgence, perhaps leaving scars that cannot be erased in their hearts. The growth of each individual will not be easy, and people are always unlucky. But the good thing is that people always grow, and that's the best gift we have. We are always hurt and we are always moving forward. I rarely feel lucky, but sometimes things go smoothly. Some people never pray, it doesn't matter, I don't pray much, but it doesn't hinder our desire to love and be loved. Although the past is difficult and the road ahead is not bright, I never doubt that our birth is a blessing.

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  • Clement 2022-04-06 09:01:07

    - Does it hurt? ——No feeling, just uncomfortable. I'm still emotionally disturbed after watching it, and I don't know how to evaluate the pain of this movie. Maybe, that faint, indescribable, that will soon be forgotten but will be remembered from time to time, the uncomfortable feeling is what pain is like. A true film about women doesn't need howls and slogans, just a brief shut-eye, a simple Rarely, is enough to set off a storm.

  • Gideon 2022-04-12 09:01:10

    Perhaps the most expensive thing in modern society is no longer life itself, but spiritual freedom. From Pennsylvania to New York, the heroine has gone through layers after layers of indifferent and firm moral systems, avoiding potential dangers that may cause her secondary harm again and again, and passing one innocuous test after another in order to obtain and enjoy a kind of "" freedom" rights. All the signposts are leading the journey's end to this subjective and one-sided freedom, but no one has really asked the heroine's real needs: what she needs is not freedom, but time. A life is racing against time in her womb, and she must buy time to end it. As a result, time and life are undoubtedly wasted mercilessly by the above rules, which is the most ironic and distressing part of the film. The author does not set a moral standard, and it is precisely because we have the freedom to choose "Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always" when confronted with morality that we gradually lose our security. In the end, the girl dragged her tired body to sleep slowly. I really hope that everything we see is just her dream.

Never Rarely Sometimes Always quotes

  • Skylar: What did the Doctor say?

    Autumn: They couldn't really help me

    Skylar: Why not?

    Autumn: I took a test.

    Skylar: What kind of test?

    [Autumn then retches and throws up]

  • Skylar: Don't you ever just wish you were a dude?

    Autumn: All the time.