This attitude is very cool

Uriel 2022-03-20 09:01:18

As a cinema movie, three hours of flat and straightforward narration is really boring, and it might make people drowsy in the cinema. But as a work, twelve years of follow-up has made it an epic. In the ending part, the boy and the girl are sitting on the mound and chatting awkwardly, but the director just doesn't say that the girl is the little Lolita who passed the comfort note many years ago. He just doesn't talk about this kind of important stalk, and he doesn't care if your audience is bored. This is his attitude. Very cool.

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Boyhood quotes

  • Mason: I finally figured it out. It's like when they realized it was gonna be too expensive to actually build cyborgs and robots. I mean, the costs of that were impossible. They decided to just let humans turn themselves into robots. That's what's going on right now. I mean, why not? They're billions of us just laying around, not really doing anything. We don't cost anything. We're even pretty good at self-maintenance and reproducing constantly. And as it turns out, we're already biologically programmed for our little cyborg upgrades. I read this thing the other day about how When you hear that ding on your inbox, you get like a dopamine rush in your brain. It's like we're being chemically rewarded for allowing ourselves to be brainwashed. How evil is that? We're fucked.

  • Mason: So what's the point?

    Dad: Of what?

    Mason: I don't know, any of this. Everything.

    Dad: Everything? What's the point? I mean, I sure as shit don't know. Neither does anybody else, okay? We're all just winging it, you know? The good news is you're feeling stuff. And you've got to hold on to that.