"Boyhood" is also a promising work at the 87th Oscars this year. This film is rich in content and very complete, so that when I watch it, I have to write down the context and flashes of inspiration to prepare for it. Need to write a movie review. This film is very suitable for me to watch now. I have just graduated from college a few years ago and have completed a process shown in the film. In layman's terms, this process is "growth", although I don't think that growth ends here, and I don't fully agree that this "growth" is good.
The film is divided into ten stages to show this process. With just a little note of the context, it becomes clear that in these ten stages, in this "growth", something is consistent and dominant. We stand in the perspective of God and look down on the first third of a person's life. Twenty years, a very long time, bit by bit, we have forgotten things that are very far away, so we often forget why they are what they are now. But from the perspective of God, everything is clear at a glance, compared with itself, or resonates strongly, or suddenly becomes clear. That's why I said that this film is very suitable for people who have just graduated from college for a few years.
The first stage, Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) and Mason (Ellar Coltrane) childhood, mother (Patricia Arquette) high school After graduation, they became pregnant and divorced. The siblings grew up in a single-parent family, and their mother had no life security. From then on, they moved frequently. The unstable life was an important factor in the formation of Samantha and Mason's thoughts and personalities. In addition, from this time on, we have been able to see the mother's disrespect for the siblings, moving house, choosing a partner, all of which are made without authorization, never considering the child's feelings and thoughts, let alone quarreling the whole house. heard it. This is an immature mother who can't even settle herself in, let alone take care of other lives. Samantha sang when moving: "Goodbye yard, goodbye crape myrtle, goodbye mailbox, goodbye, we don't want to throw it away, but what mother doesn't allow us to bring..." The little girl's naughty cuteness makes people laugh, But when I thought about it, I felt a little sad. It was this family environment that caused Samantha's rebelliousness in the future. Her inner sensitivity and her shyness were all revealed in the back without attracting attention.
In the second stage, the mother became enlightened and entered university to study in order to find a better job. At the same time, he fell in love with a professor at the university and later got married. Since then, my mother has often made a mistake - always making the wrong payment to others. She has entered what is now called a "mate selection cycle", always falling in the same place, always easily attracted to men who are confident, chatty, and seemingly knowledgeable, rushing into marriage, and only then discovering that there is a fatal flaw in those men. Disadvantage - Extremely arrogant and selfish. But it seems that in the first stage, there is also such a man. The first stepfather of the siblings gradually revealed his face in the third and fourth stages that followed. He arranges the lives of others at will, never asking or caring about their inner world and wishes. This has been revealed from the family dinner after the second stage of the honeymoon, educating little Mason and his biological son not to play video games all the time. By the third stage teaching Mason to play golf, it became clear. Later, Samantha was forced to perform housework, and the time for Mason to complete "extra homework" was strictly controlled, and even the fourth stage of drinking, abuse, domestic violence, and throwing wine bottles. These stages can be described as the darkest times for the siblings to grow up. Even with the professor's biological children, everyone can only bear it silently, venting and comforting each other afterwards. This had such an impact on the formation of cowardice, inferiority, and introversion in Mason and Samantha that they were also sullen and unhappy with their biological father, a cheerful, optimistic man who knew how to get along with children. Going straight back and forth, laughing and laughing. What their mothers can see is only the physical harm that the children may suffer, but they don't see the children's hearts, which are suffering greater and far-reaching harm. In addition, she advocated for them to transfer to another school, which caused strong dissatisfaction with Mason and Samantha. They hurried away from their former partners and were thrown into an unfamiliar environment. Everything has never been achieved, everything is still far away.
The fifth stage is a rare and warm stage. The mother is single again, and the warm things between them and their biological father. So far, their biological father is still a beacon in their growth, giving them little light and heat. Her father taught Samantha how to use contraception (that was something her mother never mentioned), Samantha was now a slender girl, showing shyness for the first time, which was very different from the usual rebelliousness. Dad and Mason hiked together, swam in the wild, camped, sang together, and talked together. That night, a lamp in the tent by the forest stayed on all night.
In the sixth stage, the mother became a college professor, but in the seventh stage she repeated the same mistakes and married her student, which turned out to be another "drunk", in the eighth stage preached "this is my home, I pay The utility bills, I will pay for your school..." Of course, the mother divorced again. But at this time, the siblings have grown up, and their hearts and personalities will not be affected too much. Mason scoffs at this, presumably thinking: "What the fuck?!"
The tragedy at this stage is that his biological father was early This theory is also held in the seventh stage: "My car, I bought it, I like it, you can't control it! You can buy it if you have the ability?" So Mason's eyes became: "FUck you! "From the seventh stage, Mason fell madly in love with photography. Introverted and sensitive, he had a keen ability to capture, and the disappointing reality immersed him in his own photography world, from which he obtained strength and satisfaction. , his heart was filled there too. Regarding worldly utilitarianism, he is relatively indifferent, and he has some kind of disgust towards the remarks of others that "study hard and make progress every day". After college, she has been struggling, but what did she get? After several failed marriages, and still being kicked out by others for not having a house, life is not much better. This is probably right in the mind of many people.
In the ninth stage, Mason is facing high school graduation. His mother has bought a big house and can finally live a free life without being manipulated. (I'm afraid the Chinese will react very strongly here - look, how important it is to have a room!) Mason has a girlfriend, but there is a estrangement with him. The girlfriend is actually a cheesy and superficial girl who doesn't understand Mason's true charm. She is that A class of people who are in the middle of the masses, can live well in social groups, but are also submerged in the crowd. She is keen on trends. Mason is not interested in socializing on the Internet. He thinks about his true value and the meaning of life. Judging from his remarks, he believes that the Internet not only makes the distance between people more distant , and bound everyone's freedom. Smile perfunctorily at someone else's dog that your girlfriend stretches out. It turns out that your girlfriend can't be perfunctory, otherwise, you will be dismissed as "gloomy" and end up with a green hat. Mason was as emotionally frustrated as his mother was.
Meanwhile, Samantha and her girlfriend have come to an agreement that financial independence is the foundation of all independence, and freedom trumps comfort. It's natural for Samantha to think this way, but gain and loss depend on each other, and being free means taking responsibility. This often takes a long time to experience, and sometimes we are not free because we cannot take up the corresponding responsibilities. Let us try not to complain about responsibility when we are free. Therefore, the real basis of all independence may lie in the assumption of responsibility, and economic independence is also a responsibility.
It is worth mentioning that at Mason's graduation family celebration, the joy of his father, mother, grandparents and grandparents was beyond words, and Mason always kept a faint polite smile. He actually didn't like this kind of celebration, and he didn't think it was anything to do with it. What we celebrate is just graduation and going to college, and it doesn't mean anything. Does this put him on a bright and splendid path from now on? In particular, it is more boring and boring for Mason to say a blessing to each of his parents and friends. The words of blessing are not vague and general, but more similar to a ceremony, but the phrase "Good Luck" said by a sister who has always been different is ironic. But after all, the family is well-intentioned, and Mason at this time also understands a little bit.
But so far, Mason still doesn't understand his inner desire, the person he really wants to be, and he hasn't achieved reconciliation with his parents and everything in the past. Until the end, in the midst of his mother's crying, and in the replacement of the orientation party by walking, Mason finally heard the voice from his heart and the peace he had been expecting. There was a smile of joy at the corner of his mouth.
In this process, I can often see myself, Mason, drunken stepfather, photography, those feelings, I understand that life experience is the best book, those subtleties, the overall completion, are all self-contrast . The whole movie has soft colors and a slight halo, showing the gorgeous youth time. After watching this movie, I also felt the echo of the empty mountain, in the vast sky, the sky was clear.
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