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time and experience
Vito 2022-04-21 09:01:23
In 2009, I watched Richard Linklater's before sunset and sunset series for the first time, and I vaguely remember the first sentence of the afterthought written at that time, "The topic of time is always sad." This is another film about "time", and the film itself was shot over a 12-year span. In the movie, Mason's mother suddenly collapsed and said: "divorce, move, get a degree, send you to junior high school, high school, and college, and then, is it my funeral? I thought there would be more, but in fact, there won't be more." In the end, many people will ask themselves like mothers, what does time mean to us for everyone who has experienced time? In the movie, the stepfather and Mason, who was wearing nail polish in a rebellious period, said, "When I was in high school, it was cool to have a job, have responsibilities, and be able to afford a car." Mason didn't understand at that time. What do these words of stepfather mean. When the stepfather tried to tell Mason what responsibility was, he couldn't communicate with a young man who had not experienced much across time and experience. For Mason, it was just "truth". Yes, you can't go beyond time and experience to share your life insights with someone who is still upstream. This is what time means to those who have experienced it and those who have not experienced it. However, after growing up, Mason does not know what time brings to life, but those "truths" have become "experiences". My father said to Mason, "Does the meaning of life matter? Does it matter? It's all your perceptions that matter." yes. It doesn't matter what kind of life you live...what matters is how you think of it.
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Tobin 2022-03-20 09:01:18
berlinale2014.Day8. Everyone loves Linklater, a super sincere work filmed in 12 years of history. But when it comes to catching a bear, I still prefer "Cross Station".
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Celia 2022-03-22 09:01:18
The gimmick is greater than the content, and giving Four Stars is just grateful to the director's 12 years of dedication. But this is really not a good movie in my mind. After 120 minutes, I'm just thinking about how it can't be finished. The mediocre life and running accounts of the American family simply make me unable to feel substituting. Maybe Americans will have a self-projection. I don't know if the Chinese and Turkish scholars are very excited.
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Dad: [frustrated with the monosyllabic answers Mason Jr. and Samantha are giving him] No, no, no. I'm not gonna be *that* guy. You know, the "biological father, who I see on the weekends, and I make small talk with him while he drives me places and buys me shit." No.
Samantha: Dad, these questions are kind of hard to answer.
Dad: What's so hard to answer about "what sculpture are you making"?
Samantha: It's abstract!
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Dad: Is she cute?
Mason: Yeah.
Dad: All right, well, here's what you do, all right, first off you gotta ask a girl a lot of questions, then you have to listen to the answers, actually be interested in her, all right, If you can do those things, you'll be light years ahead of all the other guys.