I told S that I actually couldn't understand most of the movies, and S easily said "that's because most people don't understand it either". But I can finally say I understand this movie. Because it is very rational and practical, it makes people laugh simply, and there is not even much room for purely aesthetic play-unless the deliberately created absurdity is also counted, but these scenes also seem to be taken for granted in extremely realistic dialogues, Nothing ridiculous. I think it's a bit too straight forward and not too "movie": too many thresholds are set for the audience, and the requirements for themselves are too low, and the protagonists are very relaxed about dreaming, analyzing, or analyzing...
This is like the problem I faced myself. This familiarity makes me think that Linklater is probably not that kind of person. He needs to flick the light switch or pull a top out of his pocket to judge whether he is in a dream or not. He does not need this, although he filmed this conversation. But after all, he then came up with "Boyhood".
And the film even (rather cryptically) points to a solution: you swim between dreams and reality, passively, and then eventually arrive unnarrated at the sea, which must accept everything. There is no more responsibility.
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