When I was young, I went to play with my sister who was one year younger than me with my parents. I didn't want to go home every night, so I had to cry and be scolded a few times before leaving with my parents reluctantly. I thought at that time, why do people have to separate at night, why do people have to go back to their homes?
Jacob’s father said to him: “It’s a good thing to get rid of the old stuff. It’s a bit difficult at first, but it will be better afterwards.” Growing up is indeed a matter of playing against time. We fight with ourselves and fight with time. In the end, Grew up reluctantly. There is no need to look back and mock your own naivety, because at that time, your almost tearing pain is real, and you feel it with your tender hands, your eyes, and your heart.
Live more proficiently day by day, and gradually understand that you should go home at night. The gathering is short and the separation is longer. No one is forcing you to find these truths.
Is it cruel?
However, this is always the case.
When Jacob had a hunch that he was about to lose his best friend, he finally spoke, crying and pleading with his father, thinking that he was the one who caused this situation, and that he did not speak to his parents, and finally angered his parents, so that Tnoy and His mother moved out. He began to confess his "mistakes" one by one, using his words cautiously and very flatteringly; he wanted a perfect ending, and designed a solution that he thought was better with the most unrealistic ideas. He began to stay, plead, and compromise at the same time, not to his parents, but to time, growth, and life.
"I have a good idea. Let's live in the old apartment and rent out this place. Aunt Audrey will pay the money. Tony and I will both go to Manhattan and perform arts at LaGuardia High School. So I don't need to take the subway. Or what to go to school, I can walk. You can be closer to the theater."
"...I like that performance, Dad, I really like it. Tony also likes it, we talked a lot later. I think you are very good, I think the plot is very complicated. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before, I’m sorry. But I really like it, really.”
When Jacob cried and hugged his father, I thought, what could be more uncomfortable than breaking a child's heart?
There is no dramatic plot from the beginning to the end of the film. The first half of the film looks lifeless but extremely real. Introverted children, dead old people, visiting guests, and adults who can only cry by hiding under the stairs when throwing garbage are prepared and vulnerable. , Everything is truly tranceful. The characters in the film are not so three-dimensional, but focus on the emotions, the difference between children and adults, and the conflict between immaturity and maturity. So much so that after watching the entire film, the impression of the characters is vague, but the inner touch and resonance are extremely turbulent.
Perhaps compared to Shiede Hirokazu, the director happened to be telling the story of a child. The audience may not have been old, or have experienced childbirth or bereavement, but they must have been young. As long as a little bit of subtle emotions touch the audience's subconscious nerves of once being a child, the childish innocence, like a flower that breaks at the touch of a flower, cannot be violated or questioned.
But things are like this, things are always like this.
People will grow up over time, friends will be scattered among the crowd, and relatives will leave you one after another. Then, in the vast world, Jacob finally became his father, hiding by the trash can in the corner of the stairs on a bad news night, turning his back and crying.
We all came here. "Midnight dream, you can remember how you like it. But after the people, I want you to pretend that nothing has happened. You can, we can."
At the end of the story, Jacob seemed to be in a daze. To Tony's back, the bright red T-shirt, the showy and unchanging appearance. However, Jacob tied up his long hair early and changed his dark green shirt. "At a certain moment, I suddenly realized that something has passed."
He thought, that's the way it grows.
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