grow up in the ordinary

Brett 2022-04-21 09:01:23

In today's flood of information, I think that what we lack most is patience. There is too much information waiting for you to read, too much, and the backlog becomes a strange pressure. , but there were so many that it was almost impossible to read and read, so everyone became irritable. Hurry up, just glance at it and finish it, so the information is received by us in such a fragmented manner.

Then it became popular again to cut off and leave, to cut off, to give up, to leave, to simplify the information in our life, to choose and choose all things in life, to leave the bad state. Everyone should focus on doing things and doing things, just like the director of this film, who spent 12 years filming the growth of a teenager.

Nowadays, there are very few directors who are willing to make a movie so diligently. All I know in China is Wong Kar Wai who has been filming for "The Grandmaster" for several years.

Let's go back to this movie, because these 12 years have made this movie a natural sense of reality. Often when the camera is switched, the young man in front of him will change his appearance. He will not sculpt his appearance like a star. , and even become ugly most of the time, and even the hair is all kinds of chicken coops and sloppy looks. But this is not the right thing. Such a young man, what he has experienced in the past 12 years, what he has done, and what kind of things he has encountered, is the most attractive.

When it comes to attractiveness, this movie seems to be plain as water, because of its own sense of reality, the whole story is like a documentary. Real life, like you and me, does not carry a script every day, and it may be just two points and one line every day. , just like this movie, we have experienced the good and bad things in life. Looking back, I can only laugh at it.

This may be a high evaluation of a movie, because it should be a story and characters that have been sculpted, but in the movie, it presents a supernatural state in the hearts of the audience. Those carvings have disappeared in the light and shadow, compatible with the protagonist and the two outer one, and life.

Only, in some of the lines, there are thought-provoking words, this kind of natural feeling, I think it may be the most successful part of this movie.

My favorite, near the end of the film, is a quote from a father to a brokenhearted son, where he said, "Everything in love is a matter of timing, look at me and your mother. In life, we are all improvising, aren't we? But The good news is that you're finally starting to feel with your heart."

I think that perhaps the most important thing we should do in life is to "feel with our heart".

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Boyhood quotes

  • Dad: [while canvassing for the 2008 Presidential Election] Hey, grab that McCain sign, would you?

    Mason: Dad, isn't that illegal?

    Dad: Just put it in the car. I'm being patriotic.

  • Mom: [Mason is leaving for college] This is the worst day of my life.

    Mason: What are you talking about?

    Mom: [Starts crying] I knew this day was coming. I just... I didn't know you were going to be so fucking happy to be leaving.

    Mason: I mean it's not that I'm that happy... what do you expect?

    Mom: You know what I'm realising? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced... again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what's next? Huh? It's my fucking funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!

    Mason: Aren't you jumping ahead by, like, 40 years or something?

    Mom: I just thought there would be more.