The moment

Rowena 2022-04-19 09:01:24

People often say "seize the moment", but in fact, it is often "the moment seizes you".

This 2 hours and 45 minutes of life, which took 12 years to shoot, does not show off skills, does not preach, and is not hypocritical.

The parents inside are also bumping and bumping all the way, not only can't tell the truth, but also can't live their own life well. Not living happily, nor casually. Being recorded by the camera is like a pointless hurry.
It's such a film that seems to have nothing to say, but it is so familiar with the style of "talk about nothing than anything", which is very appealing to me.

A mother who has been divorced several times cried sadly when she said goodbye to her son to go to college and sold the big house, saying that all the milestones in her life were over, such as marriage, divorce, degree, work, sending off a pair of children to college, and then, again All that was left to arrange was his own funeral. The son looked at her inexplicably: "Mom, have you fast-forwarded 40 years." I don't know why, but I couldn't help myself laughing. How frustrating if your life is just a rush to the end.

Time is eternal, and seriously, only every moment is true.

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Boyhood quotes

  • Mason: I finally figured it out. It's like when they realized it was gonna be too expensive to actually build cyborgs and robots. I mean, the costs of that were impossible. They decided to just let humans turn themselves into robots. That's what's going on right now. I mean, why not? They're billions of us just laying around, not really doing anything. We don't cost anything. We're even pretty good at self-maintenance and reproducing constantly. And as it turns out, we're already biologically programmed for our little cyborg upgrades. I read this thing the other day about how When you hear that ding on your inbox, you get like a dopamine rush in your brain. It's like we're being chemically rewarded for allowing ourselves to be brainwashed. How evil is that? We're fucked.

  • Mason: So what's the point?

    Dad: Of what?

    Mason: I don't know, any of this. Everything.

    Dad: Everything? What's the point? I mean, I sure as shit don't know. Neither does anybody else, okay? We're all just winging it, you know? The good news is you're feeling stuff. And you've got to hold on to that.