But I fell in love with this film, slow but gentle, plain but true, no dramatic conflict and strong emotional changes, some are the passage of time and the portrayal of characters.
There are too many misses in our lives, and in the cruelty of time, only a momentary memory is left. Just like the little friends who chased after Mason when he moved for the first time, like the brothers and sisters of his alcoholic stepfather, the movie did not explain the changes and growth of these characters, maybe we imagined that the girls all grew up and fell in love Now, like Mason, the boys have their favorite jobs and start a new journey. However, we will never meet again. Many partners and feelings that we could not let go of back then became so insignificant. Those things that we are reluctant to throw away will not hinder the flow of time. It was only when we turned our heads that I suddenly realized that it seemed as dangerous as before. A life-threatening event took as long as a lifetime after it had completely passed.
Arquette spent 12 years acting as a mother, married three times, and the history repeats astonishingly, getting married, having children, getting divorced, moving, getting married and divorced... At the end of the film, the mother in the small apartment watched her grow up. Her son cried, she said: I thought there could be more. Yes, when we were young, we thought that life was colorful and ups and downs, that we would have more thrilling and unforgettable lives, that we would experience an extraordinary life like those in novels and movies. But often when we lose to time, watching ourselves grow old slowly, everything will become the past, all we have is the present, but that moment of stillness.
The most distressed mother, a young, beautiful, long-haired, charming figure, has become a slightly chubby housewife under the ravages of years. The young Mason watched his mother quarrel with her boyfriend from an angle. He did not understand that it was the sacrifice that his mother made for them; when he grew up, he was forced to move out of his alcoholic and violent stepfather's house. They did not understand his mother's embarrassment and crying, but Aggrieved accusations and complaints; Mason, who was in college, couldn't understand her mother's crying while sitting in front of her apartment. I remember very clearly, he told his friends that my mother did a job she liked, but she was just as confused as me. He is growing up little by little, but his mother is getting old little by little, fighting against fate.
I like the father in the movie. He always appears at the right time in each period of time, and then disappears when it is enough. He does not accompany the child to grow up like a mother, but he does not miss the wonderful moments of the child's growth. The stepfather is just a passerby, but the father's love is Everlasting. The father in the film changes from an idle, whimsical, and idealistic young man to a responsible, family-oriented and mature father. In fact, no one can change a person, only time can easily defeat anyone.
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