So let me go. I don't wanna be your hero .I don't wanna be your big man...... The music is sounding, and when the old little card is dragging luggage and driving on the rough rocky ground, I can’t help thinking The emotion of tears stuck in my heart. But it just lacks a little thrust, the whole film is too real, there is no dramatic rendering, and there is no deliberately sensational, it is just a feeling of wanting to cry but not crying. From the best state, the tears swirled in his eyes but did not drip, and there was still half a minute. What it wants to express is just the different ways in which you, me, and him deal with things in ordinary life. It is always said that the aesthetics of the East is forbearance and calmness. In this traditional American family drama, this kind of power is also expressed so deeply. There is no need to rush to the sky, and there is no need to escalate multi-chassis conflicts, just click.
Although talking about the world of boyhood, the mother's secret and greatness, the father's staggering growth is even more moving. Being a mother is stronger. Although there are many compliments to his mother through others’ mouths in the film, small talks with students, sincere admiration from his girlfriend, and finally his father’s words of thanks... But his mother is more three-dimensional, he After understanding his mother, why not hesitate and worry like him. None of them can wisely predict at the beginning, master and understand how to reach the desired end from two points in the shortest straight line distance.
From divorce, to returning to school, reading while working, moving, painting walls, and calculating bills. With the violence shrouded in gray fear, even she herself couldn't understand whether she could really get better, and she couldn't answer firmly why she couldn't go and not return her clothes. Just when everything was desperate, he was able to stand up again and return to school to teach. I really like the clips when he always went to his mother's classroom to listen to lessons when he was young. At first, children who were only a few years old were sitting in the last row, and their mother was still a student, ignorant. Later, my mother was already on the podium with high spirits and not forgetting to teach humorously. There was both admiration and gaze listening in the audience, which was all moving.
If it is a general family ethics drama, there will always be either black or white. The late maturity of my father's youth is more or less much talked about in divorced families. But in this American family drama, this kind of black bad mood will naturally occur, but after all, it is downplayed by the power of time. The maturity of the father with the teenager is also very tender. "Do you think I just want to be a father who comes to pick you up every week for shopping and buy some cheap toys?". From separation, the alienation of children is naturally there. But later, his father reversed this estrangement in an extremely "nagging yet plain" way. When you play bowling, are you sure you are killing your child’s self-esteem? In Chinese-style families, they will deliberately draw closer to this divorced father-son relationship. But from the beginning, this down-and-out and thin father didn't hide it, and from the beginning he treated the brothers and sisters as equal conversations between adults. "Talk more about your troubles, I would rather you talk more about your own troubles", although it is very short in the parents, but it opens up.
Since then, at many stages, such as graduation, broken love, etc., the father and son can always discuss each other like friends. On economic issues, the melancholy teenager never seemed to let his father go. When he was so young, the little boy who talked little never forgot to ask his father if you had a job recently. I thought you were a musician. Perhaps forgetting or casually, the eighth grader still remembers his father's casual remarks that he would give him the old GTO as a gift on his 16th birthday. But at these moments, whether it is a father or a stepfather, what he is proud of and deliberately conveys is that gifts are unspeakable, and the unconventional coolness of young people is not worthy of pride. If you are really capable, then work part-time and truly own your own pickup. Therefore, there has been a completely different pattern from the road we have traveled. The American-style sixteen-year-old has a part-time job in high school for a while.
There are not many songs in the film, but every time it sounds, it is just right. At the beginning of the film, lying on the green grass and looking up at the blue sky, I don’t know much about everything. “YELLO” accompanied by COLDPLAY is hopeful; after the separation, my father, who loves to play and sing, improvise solo, trying to open the heart of my sister and brother. Life inquiries; after setting up a family, the humorous three-generation family in the backyard sings and teases the cats, cats and dogs with fun; after leaving, the "hero" which is farewell to a wider world, no one can become a hero of others, everyone needs move on to continue forward.
In the past two years, American films with gorgeous shells have been abandoned, and they have always used a nearly documentary approach, or mechanical industrial aesthetics, or calm wheat field scenery to leave real scenes in films. Both "Interstellar" and "Boyhood" chose to start with a dull and plain opening, using three hours of slow presentation to tell the usual. It may feel boring at first glance, but calm down, leaving a lot of sighs and sighs. The two films are very similar on the inside. They are about time, family, and fathers like mothers. They touch the bottom of my heart in different ways. Nolan can make a day in the sky and dozens of years on the ground, and time travels through old age when dazzling goodbye, travels through the five-dimensional time and space with the power of love, and freezes certain moments; after filming the "Love in" trilogy Linklater, use The tricky way to achieve the promise in "one day", once a year. This kind of perseverance and perseverance can be called the real version of "Where are you going, Dad", the realistic version of "Trumen's World".
The director's daughter is happy. For a growing record, this shooting lasted 12 years. Xiao Zhengtai has grown fat and shrunk from a well-behaved child, and fine lines appear between her parents' foreheads. The face will change, the mood will change, but the theme of love will not change. There are only slow and warm-up, late maturity and gradual enlightenment.
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