Yesterday, I saw "How to not go out to watch the Venice Film Festival" shared by someone in the circle of friends. It is said that domestic video sites will also start to engage in online screenings of international film festivals, so in the future, film festivals will no longer be crowded. It is the first time you can enjoy the films that are shortlisted and award-winning. Similarly, I am willing to pay for it.
Pull away, come back.
"Boyhood" is still in theaters in North America and received 100% praise on Rotten Tomatoes. The 20 reviews included in metacritic also achieved a comprehensive score of 99.
Director Richard Linklater is more ambitious this time, following "Love Before Dawn", "Love After Sunset" and "Love Before Midnight" (9 years between each movie) , He continued to focus the camera on a group of actors for 12 years. In order not to disturb the normal life of the young actor Ella Salmon, the crew set aside a few days each summer to film. What most people have noticed is that the young actor has grown from a 6-year-old boy to an 18-year-old boy. In fact, the two actors who played his parents are also old. Time is written fairly on everyone's face. The difference is that some people are living better and better, and some feel worse than before.
Boyhood was translated as "Boyhood". After watching the movie, I thought of a more appropriate translation-"Post-90s". This movie has resonated with me since the appearance of Coldplay's "Yellow" in the first act, and I have a deep understanding of every topic that the little boy Manson and his friends talked about.
We are the generation who grew up reading "Harry Potter", we are the generation that experienced 9/11 and the Iraq War, we are the generation who witnessed the rise of "Twilight", and we regard "The Dark Knight" as a classic One generation, we are the generation that watched George W. Bush step down and Obama became the first black president, and we are the generation that uses the iPhone...
In addition, there are some places in the movie that make me smile. The 15th birthday gift given to Manson by Ethan Hawke, who plays the role of father, is a collection of The Beatles’ collection, named " "The Black Album" (The Beatles has an album called "The White Abulm"), he teased his son and said: "This is the best album since the disbandment of John, Paul, George and Ringo." He took his sons and daughters. When I visited my room, there was a cartoon of Bob Dylan on the wall. Later, Dylan’s song "Beyond The Horizon" appeared in the movie. The father and son went on a camping trip and talked about whether "Star Wars" will have a sequel. They both thought it was impossible, but now the sequel has been filmed.
There are many passages in the movie with Richard Linklater’s consistent style, a lot of lines + long shots, such as the few minutes Manson walks with a female classmate after school, the two chatting while walking, the camera keeps Facing them, until they said goodbye, the girl rode her bicycle away in the opposite direction, drifting away.
When I watched the movie, I seemed to have spent my adolescence again with the little boy Manson: my parents forced my hair to be cut short, my voice changed, I was obsessed with weird dressing, my love started... but my parents wouldn’t talk to me. Emotional matters, let alone teach me contraceptive knowledge. Manson's growth is like looking in the mirror every day and he doesn't feel any changes, but when he accidentally turned to the past album, he suddenly felt the power of time as a carving knife.
When Manson was going to college, his mother burst into tears. She felt that the first half of her life-the most ups and downs, the richest, and the most exciting-was over. She experienced marriage, childbirth, divorce, Back to university, bigamy and divorced, teaching at university, moving from one house to another, watching her two children graduating from elementary school to high school, she felt that all the major things in her life were done, "You know me What is the next big thing in life?" She sobbed and asked her son, "It's my fucking funeral." The son said helplessly, "But why are you fast forwarding forty years?"
This reminds me of the words I always consoled my mother: "Why do you always think so much? In elementary school, you worried that I would go to junior high school. In junior high school, you worried that I would go to high school. In high school, you were worried about my entrance to college. College you worried about me. Looking for a job. Now that you are working, you are beginning to worry about when I can get married and buy a house. So, in the future, will you continue to worry about my child and worry about her going to kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school and college entrance examination? You see, Haven't things been done like this? You are worried that this is the case, and you are not worried that it is the same, why do you have to live so tired?"
Movies are the art of compressing time, while "Boyhood" stretches time. This kind of length is not a stretch forward, but a reincarnation, like a reel, sometimes there will be some wonderful overlaps, which makes people sigh. At the end of the movie, Manson drove his car to go to college. At the beginning of the movie, his mother drove to school to borrow him from school. The dialogue between the two in the car was naive and brilliant. When Manson was alone, he was walking along the empty highway. At that time, the music played "Hero" sung by the Family of the year band: Let me go/I don't wanna be your hero/I don't wanna be your big man/I just wanna fight with everyone else.
The last one of the movie The scene is a bit philosophical. Manson walked into the university dormitory, ate the hemp cake offered by his classmates, climbed to the top of the mountain, overlooking a vast hill, sitting beside him was a girl with a sweet smile, and the two watched the sunset and talked about the time. Another day is over, and a new day is about to begin, or is life really just a long day? "People always say that we must grasp time. In fact, it is the opposite. Time always grasps us." "Yes, time is constant, as it has always been now." The two looked at each other and smiled. At that moment, it is eternal. .
"Boyhood" ended at Manson's 18 years old. Here is also recommended another movie "Yokodo Senosuke", the movie started when Yokodo Senosuke was eighteen years old.
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