growth education

Dee 2022-03-27 09:01:13

Jamie is undoubtedly lucky as a teenager. Despite his parents' divorce, his mother, Dorothea, has been seeking ways to help her son grow up, although this effort is not understood by Jamie. Dorothea, Abby, and Julie, three women born and raised in different eras, all face their own problems and struggle to find their own answers. Dorothea walked into the world of teenagers, trying to understand this new era, and trying to talk to her son, Annette Bening is really elegant, every wrinkle exudes charm. Abby has just overcame the disease and was threatened with infertility. As a photographer, she recorded everything around her, at first because of Dorothea's entrustment, and later she became friends with Jamie. It can be said that she is a growth education mentor. As Dorothea said, Julie is a complex woman despite her young age. This precocious girl loves to read and has her own theories about sex and love. She smokes, sleeps at night, loves adventure, goes to Explore every possible frontier. Men and women, each keep their own secrets, we ask each other a lot of questions, but it is difficult to understand each other, as if from two planets. If everyone could sit down, communicate earnestly, and express their feelings, would there be less misunderstandings and wishful thinking?

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  • Jamie: I thought that was just the beginning of a new relationship with her, where she'd really tell me stuff. But maybe it was never really like that again. Maybe that was it.

    Dorothea: In March of 1999, I'll start to feel tired and confused. When I finally go to the doctor, he will say that the cancer in my lungs had already travelled to my breast and brain. I'll try to teach Jamie what to do with my stocks, but my instructions will be impossible to understand.

    Julie: Abbie will take me to Planned Parenthood. And I will go on the pill. I will go to NYU and lose touch with Jamie and Dorothea, and I will stop talking to my mom, I will fall in love with Nicholas, we will move to Paris, and choose not to have children.

    Abbie: I will stay in Santa Barbara. In just two years, I'll marry Dave. A month after I get married Carlotta will die. A week later, Max will die too. I will work out of my garage and show in local galleries. Against my doctor's advice, I will get pregnant, and by the time I'm thirty I'll have two boys.

    William: I'll live with Dorothea for another year. Then I'll open a pottery store in Sedona Arizona. I will marry Laurie, a singer-songwriter. We'll get divorced in a year. Then I'll meet Sandy, we will marry, and I will continue to do my pottery.

    Jamie: My mom will meet Jim in 1983, they'll be a couple until she dies. On her birthday each year, he will buy her a trip on a biplane. Years after she's gone I'll finally get married and have a son. I'll try to explain to him what his grandmother was like - but it will be impossible.

  • Jamie: [to his mom] You know, when the firemen come... people don't usually invite them for dinner.