Yesterday's everything, like water without a trace

Alexa 2022-01-25 08:04:02




This is a movie about growing up. It takes a little feeling to watch such a movie. Maybe you have to abandon some of your previous movie-watching experience. Because it has no climactic storyline and no grand life scenes, there is no need to figure out what kind of past events each person appears, and there is no need to care whether each place appears indefinitely, and there is no need to subdivide each shot. Which year does it belong to, because growth is continuous and there is no clear boundary.

If a child starts to write a diary when he is 6 years old, he doesn’t need to write it every day, even if it’s just to record points every summer vacation, and write everything, no matter how big or small things are, what he hears is what he says in his heart. When I was 18 when I was in college, I just took out a copy and read it out. There must be a lot of feelings, and even tears.

The director of "Boyhood" used video to record a boy's boyhood for 12 consecutive years. In fact, it only combined the boy's changes over the past year to shoot for three or four days every summer vacation. What’s more abundant than the diary is that as the protagonist boy, you can clearly see exactly what you looked like at that time, from the figure to the hairstyle, and even every pimples on the face; you can remember your thoughts and thoughts at that time by the way. Dreams, although they may be naive when you think of them later; you will remember the little friends who appeared and disappeared in a certain year; you will slowly realize some of the hardships of your parents who you did not understand at the time.

And as someone who has nothing to do with a boy’s life, why would he think it is worth recommending? Because this is "The story of us", we love life so we "seize the moment" in life, we love life so whenever we recall the past time we are willing to let "the moment seizes us". The important thing is the moment, At this moment, including every ordinary moment, this movie is made up of many ordinary "this moments" in 12 years.

Those ordinary moments are called life.
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My reaction was long. On the morning after seeing the movie, thinking about the movie, I suddenly couldn't help crying, because I thought that in reality, I experienced the boyhood of a boy firsthand. He is about the same age as the protagonist. When he was 6 years old, he was a white and tender little Zhengtai. He also had pimples during adolescence. When he was 18 years old, he was able to work and earn money to pay tuition. He also chased "Dragon Ball" in his childhood. He is not very talkative. He also has a non-mainstream haircut for Kill Matt, and he also has a sister who quarrels a lot but actually loves him very much. Beyond the boyhood, he has gradually grown into a silent and independent youth who left the family.

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Extended Reading
  • Hollie 2022-03-23 09:01:21

    The saddest thing is that life is getting more and more boring. The boy with shining eyes will eventually become a lifeless and boring boy. Talking or hysterical quarrels will always linger, life will always only get worse and worse, running all the way to death. At a slow speed that tortures people to death. The passage of time in the movie is from the Goblet of Fire to the Half-Blood Prince, from Bush to Obama, from xbox to iPhone, deliberately and vulgar.

  • Sophia 2022-03-24 09:01:21

    Photography already illustrates the simplest truth: time is the best artist. An ordinary old photo must be "beautiful". This inevitably raises a theoretical question. When time is the biggest gimmick in this feature film, what is the value of "drama" and "relocation"? What if this is a 12-year documentary? Do we still need a director?

Boyhood quotes

  • Randy: Hey Paul, tell us a joke!

    Paul: Fuck. Damn. Go to Hell. Ass.

  • Dad: Top of volume two, first four tracks. You've got "Band on the Run" into "My Sweet Lord" into "Jealous Guy" into "Photograph." Come on! It's like the perfect segue. You've got Paul who takes you to the party, George who talks to you about God, John is just "No, it's about love and pain" and then Ringo who just says "Hey, can't we enjoy what we have while we have it?"