Nowhere Boy tells the story about the early experience of John Lennon who was the lead singer of the Beatles, and this movie shows the audience how Lennon's character and personal life were affected by two important women in his life—mother Julia and aunt Mimi.
In my opinion, during his adolescence to some degree Lennon can be called a “hooligan”. He didn't study hard at all: smoking, fighting, stealing CD and hanging out in the city. And the title of movie comes from one of lines of Lennon's teacher when he criticized :"At the moment you're going nowhere, here at Quarry Bank generally…nowhere ."In teacher's eyes, Lennon was a failure undoubtedly and couldn't have a bright future. But Lennon responded to this in this way :”Is'nowhere' full of geniuses ?Because then I probably do belong to there .”In fact, this powerful fight back indeed predicted his future road to stardom.
Nowhere also indicates Lennon's feelings of puzzlement and confusion which particularly belongs to youths. Being lack of maternal love, Lennon was brought up by his aunt Mimi since he was five. His uncle was a little childish man, while Mimi, a strict even cold woman, always seemed to be unhappy. His aunt's marriage with uncle George was not a success, so he seldom felt warmth and love in such an abnormal family. After his uncle' death, the atmosphere in the house got more dreary. At this time, Lennon's mother re-entered his life, she was an extrovert, enthusiastic woman having free spirit and open society views. She tried to foster son's artistic talent —teaching him to play banjos. Lennon was yearning for the accompany of mother but Mimi forbade his contact with her. As a result, he had to linger on between these two women painfully.His heart drifted without a direction and he didn't know how to handle this complicated relationship.
As far as I concerned, parents'fault shouldn't be taken on by children, that is not fair. The pain caused in the childhood lasts long during one's life and it always haunts in one's memory. In the movie, Lennon recalled his five -year-old memories of past several times, about the quarrel between his parents, about how he was deserted by his mom. His mother was frivolous and always needed company —she had experienced three men in all. She was such an irresponsible mother that she refused to go back to his husband. Nobody but his aunt stayed to take care of Lennon, which is the cause of his loveless childhood and adolescence. At the end of movie, a soundtrack called mother rung:"Mother, you had me, but I never had you, I wanted you, you didn't want me, So I, I just got to tell you ,Goodbye……"t hese verses reveals Lennon's unpredictable sorrow for lost accompany from parents. While in the following lyrics, the repeated heart breaking words "M ama don't go, Daddy come home ” expresses Lennon's intense yearning for parental love in his deep heart, also it will strike a chord with audiences and echo in the hearts of them.
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