"There is a monster in the world that specializes in breaking up the parent-child relationship, called'grow up'"

Hollie 2021-10-22 14:31:00

"When you realize that the house you grew up in is no longer your real home, you will understand the meaning of life. Suddenly, the concept of home is gone... although you still have a place to put things. "

The day you move out, you will understand that there will be such a day, and there will be no such thing. You will feel that you will never be able to recover. It is like the home you always miss does not exist... Maybe this is a process of growth. You won’t regain that feeling until you rebuild a family. It’s for your children and for the family you built. It’s like a reincarnation. I miss this feeling very much. . Maybe the true meaning of family lies here. A group of people imagined a fictitious place. "

This is my favorite plot in the whole movie. Andrew and Samantha are in the pool at night, and the steam above the pool is hazy. , The white light reflected in the blue water is very unreal.

In the process of growing up, people are always losing and abandoning some things that originally belonged to them. Some are what we don’t want, some don’t want us, and some are destined to slip away like fatalism inadvertently. Gone. The reason why I hate growing up is sometimes because I am afraid of losing so many precious things that once belonged to me, but what I get is some meaningless rubbish.

Family affection is something that everyone is greedy for and refuses to let go. It brings you warmth and sweetness. Of course, sometimes there may be some small troubles and trivialities, but it is the most true thing you are born with. One day when you grow up or for other reasons, if you walk out of the old house where you have lived for many, many years, you are destined to be ruthlessly stripped one day. Although you can go back, you will no longer Belongs here.

The mother was still the mother who was in a wheelchair by you, and the father was the father who persuaded you to take medicine to make you happy. The motorcycle that grandfather left for you was also parked in the garage, everything seemed to be the same. . The home is still the same. Although the bathroom is renovated, you still have your own comfortable room. Your things are still the same, but you will eventually feel that there is a slight strangeness like a layer of glass.

Some of your old friends became policemen, some were burial errands, some made their homes inexplicably, and some were still mixed with their lives, so they are still changing, and you will eventually lose what you once possessed. A lot of things. What separates you is not only the numbness and indifference that you have caused by taking a lot of drugs, but also that you grow up slowly after you leave, and when you grow up, you are destined to lose what you once was. a lot of.

To avoid the conversation with your father, you are afraid of facing everything in the past with him and yourself. When you grow up, you are estranged from your father. 9 years of time have diluted a lot of pain and added a lot of strangeness. Some people say that family affection is the relationship that least needs to be managed and maintained. Indeed, that emotion is as passionate as the same blood flowing in your veins. Of course, the so-called management and maintenance are also useless. It is destined that one day your parents will find that you no longer rely on them, no longer need them, materially, or even spiritually, but you don’t seem to know all of this. , You just feel that you are no longer the little guy who lived here when you were a kid. You seem to have seen the past, but it only exists in your memory, just for tribute or nostalgia.

From the day we grew up, we started looking for another home of our own, a wife of our own, and then gave birth to our own children, and then happily watched the group of little guys grow up one by one, and felt sadly that they were growing up. Leaving yourself step by step, getting farther and farther, no longer need the shelter of your own wings. We will not lose everything until we are old, and until we are old, our children begin to know how to cherish those trivial times that have been with us.

But what if Andrew didn't find Samantha? Does that feeling of home really disappear from now on? What should be used to fill this growing blank?

A group of people imagined a fictitious place.
We lost all the
lonely old age in the imagination of that group of people ...

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  • Andrew Largeman: They sent me away to boarding school. Sent me away makes it sound like they sent me to an asylum. There were no straps involved.

  • Andrew Largeman: But Kenny, the last time I saw you, you were doing coke lines off a urinal.

    Kenny: I know, I know, man... but it was time for me to grow up, you know? Plus, I wasn't making shit at that fish market. No one knew who I was, I couldn't get laid. Yeah, it's a much better situation for me now.