Crossing that chasm is when your heart and my heart are close, and I think that's impossible...

Gerhard 2022-03-26 09:01:09

A mother born in 1924, a child born in 1964, the distance of 40 years from each other can be inserted into another life. As the teenager grows up and enters adolescence, as a mother (single mother), she is both worried about her own life and anxious about the negative aspects of the teenager's growth. In the end, she has to ask for help from two girls, Abbie and Julie, who are slightly older than the teenager. But there is no doubt that the generation gap of these 40 years cannot be filled. No one understands the joys and sorrows experienced by the other party in that era. The conflict escalates when Abbie repeats "menstruation" aloud during the meal and Julie talks about his sexual experiences. In fact, these are all necessary processes in youth, and there is no need to deliberately avoid and prohibit them, but they just need some correct guidance. Don't worry too much about this generation gap, it's inevitable that it can't be filled, and it's more about tolerance and understanding, just let it flow, just like the teenager said at the end, "I think that I have started a new relationship with her since then, just when she The time to really talk to me begins, but maybe there will never be a time like this again, maybe this is it." Do what you should and want to do at every age, don't avoid it and leave no regrets!

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  • Chelsea 2022-03-23 09:02:39

    Mainly talking about the seventies, and finally zoomed into the entire century. How can this kind of theme think of boyhood, but the timeline is not fully spread out. At the end, looking back on a person's life, that's how it is, there is always a pile of shit after another.

  • Jacey 2022-03-22 09:02:20

    Mike Mills's four or two works, the director's ideas are very good and well implemented, inadvertently feel the torrent of the times from the private emotional experience. The editing is great, the mother-son relationship is explored, the stories of the tenants, and the changing times make for a smooth transition. [B+]

20th Century Women quotes

  • Jamie: Mom, I'm dealing with everything, right now. *You* are dealing with nothing.

  • Julie: I think that I'm too close to you... to have sex with you.