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Marques 2022-03-30 09:01:05

It turned out to be an art film promoting anti-drugs.

I got a little irritated after watching this movie for more than 20 minutes. Very fragmented for me. How did Nick's inner depression and the beautiful boy's external setting slowly force Nick? Did Nick fall by himself, or did his father's way make him not dare to truly express himself? These questions are scattered in the film, and there is no clear way to express them. Nick's rebellious and drug-taking behavior was greatly influenced by his father. Dad kept telling him everthing, and he sang and sang beautiful boy at night. Dad gave Nick a shell, a shell of a beautiful boy, and let Nick grow in this beautiful box. Unlike traditional stick education, Dad's attitude towards Nick is love. Dad wants to use love, to the so-called "step by step", let Nick grow into the beautiful boy in his heart. Dad's gentle and loving words made no specific demands on Nick. However, in his words, Dad revealed that he always felt in his heart what Nick should be, and what Nick should have been. Nick is then bound by his father's love. Nick, in his youthful rebellion, felt that his father was using this kind of love to control himself and make himself the person his father wanted to be. Nick didn't dare to act like his dad didn't like it when he was a kid.

This should be the conflict between Nick and Dad. But by the end of the movie. Has Dad and Nick's problem been resolved? No, it seems. . . . . . Although Nick was sitting with his father, it felt as if Nick felt that he was wrong, making his family sad and sorry. Ok? Dad still doesn't understand where his fault is? The father in the film has been treating Nick the same way from beginning to end. Nick's rebellion eventually became his own fault? Does everyone in the family love him? Nick still hasn't solved the root cause of the problem? He didn't find a way to show his true self.

The casting of the stepmother inside gave me a quick impression of being mean, not so good.

Nick's inner conflict wasn't explosive enough. It's not clear how he was depressed, how he overwhelmed him, how he escaped from drugs. It is shown in the video, but it is omitted.

The soundtrack inside makes me restless.

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  • David Sheff: There are moments that I look at him, this kid that I raised, who I thought I knew inside and out, and I wonder who he is. He's been doing all sorts of drugs, but he's addicted to crystal meth, which seems, uh, to be the worst of all of them. And I guess I'm here because I just want to know all that I can about all of it. Know your enemies, right? So, my two big questions are, what is it doing to him, and what can I do to help him?

  • Nic Sheff: One day, I tried methamphetamine... Yeah. That felt good... and I thought, "This is what's been missing." I felt complete. Today's a good day. Yeah, I've been chasing that high ever since. No matter... how much meth... or whatever else I can find to shoot up into my body... I do, it's never enough. And I went to a couple of rehabs, I detoxed, they would talk about disease, sure, but... it never clicked. Until one day I woke up in a hospital and someone asked me, "What's your problem?" And I said, "I'm an alcoholic and an addict." And he said..."No, that's how you've been treating your problem."I know now I need to find a way to fill this big black hole in me. Anyway, so I'm fourteen months clean. I have a job at a rehab. It's fulfilling to help other people get sober. I have a sponsor, Spencer. He shows me how great my life can be sober. And, um, I still have family. My mom's been amazing. My dad's been amazing, too. I want them to be proud of me.