growing pains

Nakia 2022-03-24 09:02:44

i was so moved by this movie. because it makes me think of myself, my parents, my confusion, my doubts, my uncertainties about life. What am I? What do i really want?
I can feel so vicariously when Gia closes the door behind her mother when she left her and the distress and despair when her beloved agent died from the world. i also feel this way often when i am alone for no one seemed to be there for me in this world.
she chose drugs, avoiding facing the reality. she chose to forget and was ruined by it.
she kept requesting her mother to take her back, to take care of her, she simply wanted to be loved. when in the last, her mother offered to take her back, she actually refused. That was impressive. we have to frame the response into the time, when it was after her rehabilitation. she became much more independent, and responsible.
Growing up, in her case, means take responsible for yourself instead of your parents. that is the time when Gia grows up.

There are sentences in the movie that are truly impressive.
when you don't know what to do, when you are nervous, believe that you only have to be yourself, everything's going to be fine, and that you don't have to be perfect, nothing is perfect, you only need to experience it and transcend beyond it.

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Extended Reading
  • Janae 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    125 minute version. Produced by HBO, it is quite a standard New York-style movie. The lens and editing method are reminiscent of Bob Fosse. The black and white pictures and the escaped narrative rhythm are inserted from time to time, which is cold and casual. Julie's performance is considered to be hard-working, drug addiction is miserable, the AIDS ghost shaved her head, and Luo Tuo was unruly and naked. The script is pretty bad. The first half is a lace drama about falling in love with a woman at first sight, but the relationship between the two is very vague. In short, Julie is very enthusiastic and the other is difficult to accept. The second half is the tragedy of her unstable temperament and the collapse of her drug addiction career In the end, such a stylistic star character with a broken personality is really afraid of rottenness. This film does not provide any new perspectives and new content. Her mother runs through the whole film, that is, an ordinary person, who cares about ordinary worries, and The prototype is not consistent, the script actually makes no sense, you don't know where Julie's self-destructive tendencies come from, and this character has nothing to do with her career soaring, it's just a demonstration: someone is not having a good life, the result is true screwed up

  • Lola 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    I can still remember the row of pinholes in Gia's arm. The photographer put his hands behind his back and continued to shoot. All they want is beauty. The inner depravity cannot hold up the beautiful shell, and it is fleeting.

Gia quotes

  • Francesco: This is life, not heaven. You don't have to be perfect...

  • Gia Carangi: I'm in charge, and I'm leavin'!