Typical youth growth movie

The sudden death of his mother two years ago became a thorn in the heart of 18-year-old Hallam. He looked for the cause of his mother's death, suspected that his stepmother was the murderer, but couldn't help peeping through the window to make love to her and his father. In a violent dispute, the two had a relationship inexplicably. This home couldn't stay any longer. Hallam was wandering on the streets of Edinburgh and was shocked by the woman Kate who looked exactly like his mother. Followed all the way, came to the hotel where she worked, worked part-time, became friends with her, spied her life through the binoculars in the bell tower, indulged in her own obsession.
In more and more contact with Kate, Hallam's closed world began to crack. On the 18th birthday, the two drunk people hugged each other to bed. Hallam saw himself waving goodbye outside the window. Perhaps he still didn’t understand that turning the concealed infatuation into a real skin blind date meant that the little world of self collapse. Everything that happened next was like a ritual of growing up. He had a relationship with Kate. When his stepmother said "Do you feel like you're f..king Mummy?" detonated, he rushed home angrily, tied the stepmother and threw it away. In the river, at the moment of life and death, he wakes up and turns back to save people. The thorn of growth that is entwined with Oedipus, sexually advancing, rebellious, lonely, thirsty, and perplexed has completed the final tempering and pulled out to become Hallam and cut off the inner demon. The sword.
Therefore, when he knows that Kate has a new boyfriend, he will not be sad for long; the five-year appointment between the two may not be lingering. Because this woman from the back of her mother, in the final analysis, will only exist in peeping, it is the memory of wandering on the roof. And people, no matter how long they are alone on the roof, they still have to step back into the street and merge into the crowds.

A typical youth growth movie is full of all the elements and details you can imagine. The only thing that is unexpected is the quiet night of Edinburgh.
The music in the film was highly praised and won the Silver Bear Award for Best Music at the 57th Berlin Film Festival. But I didn't feel much special, the same British rock and folk songs, "ONCE" brought me even more shocking.
Sophia Myles has the appearance of Kate Winslet. After years of tempering the vase in "The Underworld", he has faintly gained the charm of being in the drama, and there is still a lack of a good script to shine. Claire Forlani was so old that it was heartbreaking. The smoky face in "Meet Joe Black" had been washed away into pale fragments by time, and I couldn't bear to watch it.
I haven't watched "Billy Elliott" 10 years ago, but Jamie Bell will obviously not be Macaulay King, exhausting all his talents in the age of child stars at once. Looking at the path he has taken in the past ten years, I think of Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio, who became famous when they were young, reborn in independent films, and became Hollywood's biggest brothers. Will Jamie be next? At least for now, it looks alike.

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