This movie tells the story of John Lennon before he turned into a rock star, and the name Nowhere boy clearly expresses what he felt in the youthful period of no belonging, pulling between his mother Julia and his aunt Mimi, There is no sense of precariousness of a father. He tried to find his roots, struggling to grab something like a drowning but unable to grasp, slowly learning to use music to express his emotions. To him, the process of understanding his own life experience is also like a process of breaking away from his mother and transforming into a man. The ecstasy, madness, and sorrow reached a climax at the moment he knew his mother had passed away. With all his strength, he tried to find and suddenly lost the sense of belonging in his heart, and punched the other members of the orchestra. It was at this time that his anger towards his life experience was vented to the end like a reservoir flood. After that, it became the John Lennon as we know it.
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