We are all experiencing life for the first time and are new to "life", so we always ask others "what is life".
Dorothea, a 55-year-old woman living with a 15-year-old son, is worried about her son Jamie, who has grown up more than she can understand. So she commissioned cohabiting 20-year-old artist Abby and her son's good friend Julie, hoping they could teach Jamie what life is all about. But life is not learned after all. Jamie began to observe the lives of two people, even the lives of his mother Dorothea and the tenant's uncle William. He observed the completely different lifestyles of these people.
Life in the 20th century is clear from looking at the life Jamie observed. Mother Dorothea does not reveal her heart. After the economic panic and the pain and loneliness after the 2 World Wars, Abby has already lost her physical female characteristics. After suffering and struggling, she began to learn "women". Julie, on the other hand, had a very different view of what sex really was early on; William wouldn't get along with women other than physically. Jamie becomes a witness in the 20th century, the "women" of the 20th century, the rebellious band culture, the fear of the future, etc. are all about the film.
But Women of the 20th Century doesn't teach old lessons, just as Jamie didn't learn life, so the movie doesn't try to teach the audience anything.
There are articles written by famous writers and quotes left by famous people on and off in the movie, and it doesn't matter if you say you don't understand it. That's how life is, the faces we meet over time, and everything we've experienced piles up into our lives. There are times when it is not understandable, and there are times when it is unacceptable. Each time is piled up to become a century.
Life is full of unstable factors. Everyone's environment and the people around them are different, so we can't find the answer to life, so we have to live our own life clumsily. Even people who live in the same century will have generation gaps and conflicts due to age gaps, just like Dorothea, 55, can't understand the band that her 15-year-old son is obsessed with.
It doesn't matter, life is a process of meeting many people. Wanting to understand other people's lives or wanting to admit that accepting generation gaps and contradictions can really affect life. No one can teach us anything about life, we can only understand life by experiencing it ourselves. It is precisely because life is not something that can be learned, so we are more attached to our life. Let us appreciate different lives in the same period, this movie is enough to make us look back on our lives.
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