I asked my mother,:
"What will I be?
Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?"
Here's what she said to me:
"Que sera, sera,
Whatever will be, will be ;
. at the future's not Ours to See
Que Sera, Sera,
. Whatever by will BE, by will BE "
." Que sera, sera, Whatever, we can not foresee the future, "Every time I hear this song, you'll find it sad. Compared with the primordial universe, the existence of human beings seems so small. And the existence of an individual, relative to the entire human race, is just like throwing into the human position in the universe. In the dark, before we were born, the rules of this world have been established. Our life is beautifully called in our own hands. In fact, the trajectory of life has long been determined. When and what should be done is often not tolerated. You resist. Going to school, working, getting married, having children, raising children, and getting older step by step are the trajectories of most of us. Just like the line that the girl said at the end of the movie: "Grasp the time? I don't know, I was thinking, on the contrary, it's like...time holds us." Yes, time has always held us.
Director Richard Linklater spent twelve years filming this "Boyhood". Regardless of whether the film is good or bad, he spent more than ten years focusing on making a movie. It deserves our respect. In fact, he is the kind of person I admire. This type of people can always persist in doing their own things and keep their true colors in the tide of the world. As one of the most successful independent filmmakers in the American film industry today, Richard Linklater’s works are not many, but most of them are masterpieces, especially this "spiritual sequel" that he called "Young and Frolic" "Boyhood".
The director used this 160-minute movie to truly show the growth of a teenager. From the age of six to eighteen, the director really spent a full twelve years. From the faces of the characters in the play growing up or aging, we can see the traces of the years. Leading actor Ellar Salmon (Ellar Salmon) also entered the ranks of 18-year-old adults from the age of six when the movie was finalized. The growth trajectory of the boy in the play, there is more or less his own shadow. Of course, I am not referring to the broken family, but the innocence of childhood, the rebelliousness of youth, the ignorance and maturity of adolescence.
For the little boy played by Ella Salmon, childhood must be the most difficult experience. The parents divorced, the mother married again and again, and then divorced. Moving, moving, every breakup of his mother's marriage means moving, which seems to have become the norm in his life. Leaving familiar places, leaving familiar friends, and re-adapting to an unfamiliar environment is not an easy task for children, especially introverted children. But here I am not accusing the boy's mother. In fact, she is very brave and works very hard to make her life better. If she hadn't decisively left her second husband who was alcoholic and domestic violence, I believe their lives would have been even worse, and all of this can only be blamed on her being unfair to others.
The quality of the family environment has a great impact on the growth of children, but we cannot stipulate that I nor can I agree to compromise for a hypocritical and good environment, nor can we say that a good family environment will definitely enable a child to grow up healthily. For parents, all of these are their choices, and all of these are what the child must experience. Sometimes a parent's fault will befall the child, but it is often inevitable. I admire the mother in the film very much. Even though she has two children, she still did not give up the opportunity to study on her own and finally became a professor at the university. She has been trying her best to be good for the child, but she has never forgotten to think about herself. This is a cool mother with an opinion. However, it was such a cool mother who couldn't help crying when her son was finally going to college. She was not reconciled to how her life was like this.
Little boys grow up step by step. Gradually they have their own friends, have their own hobbies, meet people they like, have also drunk, drugged, lied, and rebelled. These are all compulsory courses for growth. Experienced does not mean that We are just a bad boy. A bleak childhood does not mean a bleak life. Every time the boy's biological father takes them out, I feel very relaxed, like a vacation. In any case, they still have parents who love them. "Life won't give you a guardrail." When they finally grow up, what is the past.
At the end of the film, the boy and his new roommate went mountain climbing. The sun was just right and the feeling was very good. It's like, after multiple climaxes in his life, the door finally opened. His life is no longer what he called the "intermediate state". In the next time, he can really experience many things-art, love, ideals, etc., his future looks so beautiful.
However, let us not forget that we are not the real trader in life. The real trader is time, which holds us firmly. One day, when we wake up accidentally, we will be surprised how time crawls through our skin. Time is "constant, it is...as it has always been now", but what you said many years later is no longer the present.
At different stages of life, movies will have different music. I have to say that every piece of music is so beautiful and so appropriate. However, what impressed me were the songs played and sung by the boy’s father himself. One of them was to express his love to his children, and the other was to sing with everyone at a happy family gathering. I still remember those two lines. Lyrics-if you love too much, it will become hate. If you never leave home, you will never be late.
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