So instead of treating this as a documentary about growing up, it's better to treat him as an eighteen-year-old's recollection of his past experience, one after another.
I really like watching movies that express my life with a calm mind, because today’s movies, even urban movies, are inevitably exaggerated. They are far from our real lives, and stories like this in my youth seem to happen in my own. Everyone around us will experience many stories as they grow up. These stories may not be so magnificent but make us our unique selves.
In this family, Mason, sister Samantha, and four parents have had their own life experiences in these twelve years. Twelve years is a period of growth that cannot be ignored for everyone.
Mason’s
twelve years have been from his first grade of elementary school to his high school graduation. It is the twelve years that everyone will be very impressed in their lives. From his body, you can see the growth trajectory of every boy: from being naughty when he was a child to stealing. Look at pictures of beauties; from peeking at my mother quarreling to not understanding why my mother is so close to a teacher; from naively asking the current friends what to do when I move for the first time, to watching the ride blankly when I move for the second time The good friends who caught up with the car, from crying silently with their long hair cut, to being cool with ear studs and nail polish, from boasting to each other that they are not a virgin, to spending the night with their girlfriends in their sister’s dormitory, and like playing graffiti since childhood. When I grow up, I like photography...These are like fragments of every boy's growth. Everyone seems to have experienced a few of these things. It seems ordinary but can remain in the memory forever.
What impressed me the most was Mason's expression after his father sold his old car and replaced it with a new one. He was pretending to be cool during the rebellious period and he could see tears rolling in his eyes. Everyone has a few promises that have been kept in mind since childhood and grown ups have forgotten all the time. The loss when the promises are not fulfilled is really impossible to describe in words.
We will finally get rid of the youthful love of adolescence, please let go of all the previous childishness, and welcome the new life with a better mentality. Sister
Samantha
is a supporting role in the movie, but she also has her own complete growth story. As a little princess, when she moved for the first time, she handed over the responsibility of managing the Boy Scouts to her good friends. When she moved for the second time, she was very serious about discussing with her mother where the family should go, and she was shy when she listened to her father doing sex education. Later, she also became a girl who often changed her boyfriends. From the time she was a child, she and her younger brother were always arguing to her brother when she grew up to congratulate her brother at the graduation party, and she only said one good luck... These details also capture people’s hearts. From a naive little girl to becoming a financially independent girl, the various changes in her body are equally embarrassing.
When my father
was young, he had two children when he was not ready. Although he was divorced, he still loved them. He did his best to do his responsibilities as a father: play with the children, teach the children rugby, give the children sex education, and try to be yourself As a friend to guide the child’s growth... People also went from pursuing freedom and doing nothing when they were young, and then starting actuarial examinations to enter the insurance industry. Later, when they were ready, they began to earnestly start a family, and people gradually reduced their vigour. Be steady, the father who was babbling with his son when he was young, even became shy at his son's graduation party, and the gray hair began to appear on his sideburns, which made people sigh with emotion. But he is happy after all. He met the right person when he was right. Recently, he increasingly feels that time and people are indispensable.
mother
Marriage, divorce, and then divorce, life seems to be too rough, a woman with two children is really not easy, I can understand the mother’s mood when she finally said "the next thing is her own funeral", a woman always hopes to have something in her heart. Relying on, sometimes she herself can’t tell whether she wants to be relied on or loved. This may be the reason why marriages fail again and again. But after hope and disappointment time and time again, she has gradually become accustomed to living alone. Bringing up two children has been her entire motivation over the years, and when the two children really leave home, she will feel empty. In fact, she has already done it all. For my own responsibility as a mother, what I need next is to really start a life I like, just like their father.
The 160-minute bridge passed by like flowing water, as if it really witnessed the growth of a person, so that when I saw the end, it seemed that I couldn't remember what I said at the beginning, as if my childhood memories became blurred.
The male protagonist in the film is undoubtedly lucky. He has recorded his growth in such a special way since he was six years old. I don’t know how he felt when he finally saw this film, but the most amazing thing is The actor finally looked like Ethan Hawke between his eyebrows, which was incredible.
Although everyone is still ridiculing the film with the stalk that lost to the fireworks of the day, there is no doubt that its exquisite expression of life is quiet and silent. The most difficult thing is to grasp the small but very moving one in the process of growing up. This detail may seem trivial, but it is impossible for a person who loves life and pays attention to these details to put these seemingly inconspicuous details in the movie.
At the end of the longest article I have ever written, I used this sentence: the end without the end, not the postscript of the postscript. Life is like this. There is never a beginning and an end. Questions overlap with questions. We just spend day after day like this. It's like when my dad just came out and said he didn't expect you to be so old, he would still send it out to mom at the high school graduation party. The same emotion, and the discussion between the last two people in the film about the time is the theme of the film. These twelve years are just a period of life, and then there will be youth, middle age, and old age, so our story will not There is an ending, the end of one life itself is the beginning of the next life.
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