Too close and too far

Lewis 2022-01-07 15:53:32

Girls in middle and high schools, if they are a little popular, they should worry a lot. There are people who like themselves, and there are also people who like them.

Because of the distance and brilliance, I like a person, but it is not necessarily what I want, and the closest person around me who never abandons her likes her, usually she hopes to be a close friend, comforting her when she is sad but not touching her.

Knowing her most secrets may be the main reason, too familiar. Is this a relationship that is close and far away?

Usually girls tell boys that we are suitable for being friends and not for being lovers. Boys want to go from friends to couples, but they often exceed the expected period of the boy or the girl continues to refuse, which often makes the boy feel hurt and treat the girl from then on Loss of language ability, even deliberately getting close to other girls, in order to save the person I like

But the facts often backfire. It’s not that I’m not good or people who like me. I met twice in the ignorant period. It was only after the precipitation and forgetting of time that the embarrassment between the two was solved. Now they are ordinary friends, but in my heart It’s a little bit evil, I’m relieved to see that you are not as good as I am

Another far and close distance in the play is the mother and son, from the second to the third year of high school. I separated from my first love and left school for a year. The mother went from the angry education at the beginning to the fear of letting go.

The incomprehension at the beginning was too far away from me, but in the end it could only be said that I was afraid that I would be forced to come closer. The transformation of a strong person was really not easy, so in retrospect, I felt sorry for my mother.

The drama depicts the American events in the 1960s, but it is really similar to our post-2000 attitude towards life.

The biggest feeling of watching the whole film is summarized in one sentence

Too close or too far

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  • Jamie: I thought that was just the beginning of a new relationship with her, where she'd really tell me stuff. But maybe it was never really like that again. Maybe that was it.

    Dorothea: In March of 1999, I'll start to feel tired and confused. When I finally go to the doctor, he will say that the cancer in my lungs had already travelled to my breast and brain. I'll try to teach Jamie what to do with my stocks, but my instructions will be impossible to understand.

    Julie: Abbie will take me to Planned Parenthood. And I will go on the pill. I will go to NYU and lose touch with Jamie and Dorothea, and I will stop talking to my mom, I will fall in love with Nicholas, we will move to Paris, and choose not to have children.

    Abbie: I will stay in Santa Barbara. In just two years, I'll marry Dave. A month after I get married Carlotta will die. A week later, Max will die too. I will work out of my garage and show in local galleries. Against my doctor's advice, I will get pregnant, and by the time I'm thirty I'll have two boys.

    William: I'll live with Dorothea for another year. Then I'll open a pottery store in Sedona Arizona. I will marry Laurie, a singer-songwriter. We'll get divorced in a year. Then I'll meet Sandy, we will marry, and I will continue to do my pottery.

    Jamie: My mom will meet Jim in 1983, they'll be a couple until she dies. On her birthday each year, he will buy her a trip on a biplane. Years after she's gone I'll finally get married and have a son. I'll try to explain to him what his grandmother was like - but it will be impossible.

  • Jamie: [to his mom] You know, when the firemen come... people don't usually invite them for dinner.