I checked the director Richard Linklater, a native of Texas, who likes to make movies that span time. However, in a movie like "Boyhood", it is still rare to follow a person for more than ten years and condense the story of a person and his surrounding half of his life. So because it is rare, it seems precious.
What if Mason lived in China? Some people in the movie have changed. For example, the director's daughter, Samantha, plays Mason's sister in the movie. She was so lively in her childhood that she only said "Good luck" when she was toast. Mason's eyes never changed. Growth is accompanied by severe pain, and change is a constant theme, but Mason was influenced by his father's love for music, and his mother's rebelliousness in her higher education was not so rebellious. The look has never changed. This is impossible in China, right?
Our little friends will definitely be stereotyped in the nine years of education. They may be asked the most about their dreams, but their answers, because they cannot get practice and support, finally have to be unified and standard. . When they entered the university, the tasks they had to face changed. After being unified with 5+3+3, their first priority was diversity and innovation, which was 100% contrary to the educational environment and philosophy they grew up in. No tutor will touch your head and say, you are doing well, do you want to keep trying? No parent will talk to you about condom use rules. Teachers may say, students! come on! When you go to college, you can do whatever you want! Your destiny will be changed! However, when they entered the university, no one had a successful experience of living a diverse and self-sufficient life. The repressed youth suddenly burst open. Often, instead of becoming more and more indifferent to maturity like Mason, they lost their ego in a presumptuous, extreme, and more exaggerated manner.
I have seen too many college students who are confused and cry after graduation. Only 20% of them are from the people around them. Most of them are unpredictable about tomorrow. Of all the books that have been successfully learned, the first 5 chapters must be devoted to digging out your hobbies, but the problem is that our young people have to do questions, take exams, and learn English when it is time to cultivate their hobbies. The above behaviors cannot become hobbies, except for language, because they are forced first and then happen.
The split and reorganization of divorced families, the experience of being bullied and love on the way to school, the understanding and mutual commitment among family members, I think these are some common plots in American families. However, because of our lack of experience, it is even more valuable for the context and details laid out in the film.
Just like a cup of milk tea, it is smooth and warm. It cannot express how delicious it is, but after drinking it, I will buy it again next time. When I have no choice, I will have a cup of milk tea. "Boyhood" is the cup of milk tea. It looks very comfortable, but it is reluctant to delete it when it is stored in the computer.
Everyone has their own Boyhood, even if they are the same as others as a whole, their little minds are different. Watching Mason grow up a little bit is like forcing himself to review his life all over again. His head shape is changing, his environment is changing, his soul has not changed, what about me? me too? How about you? you too?
The song "Hero" that appears in the film makes Mason's life very clear. He is his mother's yesterday. This woman only cried once in the whole film, not during divorce, not during domestic violence, not when her husband wrote a check. , and when my son is finally going to college. Milestone after milestone, people will grow old in an instant. When we are young, we will change the world. When we are middle-aged, we realize that the life of ordinary people has gone through so many years. Where is your dream? Did you implement it? What if we were destined to be ordinary people? Its melody tells the story of all of us, for myself and for you.
Let me go
I don't wanna be your hero
I don't wanna be a big man
Just wanna fight like everyone else
Your masquerade
I don't wanna be a part of your parade
Everyone deserves a chance to
Walk with everyone else
While holding down
A job to keep my girl around
And maybe buy me some new strings
And her and I out on the weekends
And we can whisper things
Secrets from my America dreams
Baby needs some protection
But I'm a kid like everyone else
So let me go
I don't wanna be your hero
I don't wanna be a big man
Just wanna fight with everyone else
I just want to be an ordinary person, and Mason is just one of thousands of ordinary people, but when I found this, it was really sad.
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