This film followed the boy for 12 years, and took clips from each growth stage and edited them into a movie; these clips seem ordinary, but they extract important turning points in a person's life, and these turning points have an impact on the protagonist's own life. It's important, maybe they don't even realize it.
That mother may be a portrayal of most people. Everyone hopes that their life will be rich and wonderful. However, as the years go by, when looking back, they find that they are far from reaching their expectations; the sadder thing is the best The years have passed, and it seems that he will never be able to realize such a wish.
There are actually many stories in the boyhood that the film tells, but the director did not focus on any one of them, but recorded and showed the most ordinary life scenes in a calm manner.
These scenarios can be found everywhere, even each of us experience them. This film distills the most ordinary life, keeps it on the big screen, and shows us that life has given us a lot when we have no time to care and turn a blind eye.
We always hope that life will be more than the current life. In fact, in our ordinary, many profound things have been deposited, experience, truth, life experience, they come from ordinary, but they exist meaningfully.
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