is it my fault

Amani 2022-03-22 09:02:54

I've always felt like I'm aging prematurely, and I'm a boring person. I find things that young people like to watch incomprehensible, such as Juno (a high school brat talks about love in a decent manner, I can’t accept it), and things that middle-aged people like to watch, I enjoy watching, such as Kay Uncle Qi's the weather man. Son of Rambow's 90-minute film barely resonated with me, not sure if my childhood was just too boring. As far as I can think of in elementary school, I was helping my poor student to make up lessons at the same desk: my deskmate kept asking me, I explained impatiently, and sometimes punched and kicked.
The film involves a lot of content, family, friendship, and even some social issues, but I always feel that they are all a little worse. Am I watching this movie at my current age, or is the director making a grown-up children's world? Those children who are most like children are those who like to follow others' words and like to be a follower to people who are more mature than themselves.
And the protagonist Lee Carter is so precocious, and what he said when he rescued Will in the end surprised me even more. Is this a child?
In short, far from the association I saw the poster, the one in the film was not my childhood.

PS: Plymouth Brothers reminds me of "no brothers, no basketball".

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Son of Rambow quotes

  • [last lines]

    Lee Carter: This has been my best day of all time.

  • Lee Carter: I don't care what you and your so-called mates say about me, but don't you ever, ever call my brother a scab! You know, at least he's there for me! At least he cares about me, which is more than I can say for you, blood brother. You're a two-faced fake like the rest of them and I'm gutted it took me this long to work it out. I'm gutted I fell for it, Will. Lawrence is better than all of you and all that lot put together and he's all I've got, alright? He's all I've got.

    [sobs]

    Lee Carter: I didn't come back for you anyway. Where's my camera?