Even so, I still feel some resonance

Carleton 2022-03-16 09:01:02

The shooting method of childhood was chaotic and naive, swinging vigorously, fantasizing about 360 degrees, but cowardly, peeking at underwear magazines, burying a bird’s body, I didn’t feel terrible, dirty, or even such things. There is no mercy either. The young mind just accepts and absorbs these things, without emotional impurities, and the mind's feedback to them is also strange. I hate moving and cherish short-term gatherings, but the adult world always collapses unknowingly. It has secret clues that I can't clarify. The boy can always understand the clues of his mother's love, and the stepfather's bastard character also shows up early when playing golf.

After entering puberty, some secondary and non-mainstream dialogues and styles gradually appeared, but this less deliberate recording method is not annoying. This is part of youth and part of you and me. I like Ethan's father. , Especially using the method of making a CD to prepare gifts is really in my heart. There are also clips of a family singing their own songs, which are very, very sweet. Wandering on the street late at night with my little girlfriend, chatting with people around me, and chatting about the future. This scene reminds me of me and you. The future always has a long time before adulthood, waiting anxiously like a boy, and after the real adulthood Time is like a chain tied to an anchor at one end, sinking into the boundless seabed unstoppable, one by one to eliminate the little monsters sent by life, the big boss that has been waiting for has not come, and Mu Ran realizes that there are only a bunch of silent ones at hand. Numbers, dry years, no matter whether it is a difficult moment or a beautiful moment, what is left in memory afterwards are fragments that have lost their original brilliance, and all we have is ourselves at that moment, and at that moment We have been sealed in time, with those who shared that moment with you. So go on the road lightly.

Some favorite clips in the movie: all the clips with my dad, catching butterflies, singing with the stepmother’s family in the forest hut, hooking up the girl’s dialogue in the depths of the party, wandering in the street late at night watching the sunrise from the top of the building, Texas has no end In the Grand Canyon, I reached the apex and saw the sunset turning over page by page in the future, and when the opening title sounded Yellow.

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Extended Reading
  • Kieran 2021-10-20 19:01:39

    In fact, what I expected should be a little deeper, not just a symmetrical accumulation of time. However, when I think of Linklater's view of life in "Before Midnight" (and we just went through it in the end), I feel that there is nothing wrong with such a heavy lifting. At least whether in reality or in the movie, this boy has grown up straight like a tree.

  • Isac 2022-03-22 09:01:18

    The story of running water takes away the time. It does not need the plain and trivial of drama and conflict to restore the true face of life. Patricia suddenly cried because he looked back on her life when her son left. When I was a teenager, there was so much confusion, especially when I graduated from Mason Middle School, I saw a typical Linklater-style discussion, and I also saw the shadow of the "Love in" series. Uncontrollable time, unable to rewind the boyhood, sigh or fortunate?

Boyhood quotes

  • Dad: [Mason Jr. bowls a gutterball] Alright, don't worry about it.

    Mason: I wish I could use the bumpers...

    Dad: You don't want the bumpers, life doesn't give you bumpers.

  • Samantha: [as the family leaves their house for the last time before moving] Goodbye, yard! Goodbye, crepe myrtle! Goodbye, mailbox! Goodbye, box of stuff Mommy won't let us take with us but we don't want to throw away. Goodbye, house, I'll never like Mommy as much for making us move!

    Mom: Samantha! Why don't you say goodbye to that little horseshit attitude, okay, because we're not taking that in the car.