real life growth

Stephan 2022-04-22 07:01:04

It's probably the most storyless movie I've ever seen, but it's one of the greatest experimental movies I've ever seen—twelve years of filming a real teenager growing up.
From a 7-year-old child to a 19-year-old youth, the appearance, voice, appearance, and character have undergone tremendous changes. This is not a movie, but more like a documentary.
At the end, the mother cried before her son was about to move out. Her life was over like this. She wanted to live more, but all three marriages failed. In the end, the child grew up and left home. The focus of her life was empty.
Watching the little boy grow up makes me feel especially cherished when my son was still a child. In a blink of an eye, the child will grow up. When the child was young, I hoped that he would not grow up too fast, but time is not forgiving. When the child grows up, we are old, and our parents are even more old when they need our care. Most of my life has passed, and it has been more than ten years earlier. What kind of life do we want?
Living, living in the moment, enjoying the moment is the best reward in life.
The film is the best, the boy leaves home happily, and can freely develop his world and life, and another life cycle begins.
Seeing the boy driving to college on a desolate road alone after leaving home, I cried, whether I was happy for the child to grow up or sad for his mother, I don't know, I just feel that life is short, and the good times are short.

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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.