Although "Boyhood" is Linklater's latest masterpiece, it is my own reason that I only sent this film review after it was released nearly half a year ago. But all topics about time seem pale in front of this movie, even if the subsequent "Interstellar" opened the minds of countless people, the sentence "maybe time controls us" gives time its vitality. "Interstellar" is a scientific conjecture derived from known knowledge, and "Youth" is a philosophical conjecture derived from life perception. In fact, if you are willing to be friends with time, you will never be long enough together; if you are enemies of time, you will always feel a long torment.
Why wrestle with time? Why struggle to achieve a certain life setting? Isn't growing up to adapt more and more to this unpredictable world? Harmony and adaptation is also a kind of grasp and active acceptance.
Time controls you, and when you merge into history, history is you, you are history, and you become eternity. Lovers want to manipulate each other, and when you blend in with the other half, the other half becomes you, and you become the other half. Find a balance between independence and integration, and be a pendulum. Although it cannot escape the force field of life, it will never stop the trajectory of life and will always carry out energy conversion. Time, in fact, is the lover of your life.
12 years is also a cycle in China. The actual shooting time of a film with a 12-year shooting cycle is only 15 days. In your 12-year memory, there may be only these 160 minutes of pictures, and to restore them, 15 days may be enough.
Linklater's films are sketches of life, relying on the dialogue of characters to support the plot, and there are no other bells and whistles. There are always some small details in the trivial chatter that make people feel embarrassed or moved, and can turn the chatter-like dialogue into a poetic discussion. Introverted expression from time to time to release the passion for life, this is Linklater's talent.
It is like a 12-year-old child, who has experienced 12 years of life, a painter only spent 15 days on and off to observe him, and then spent 160 minutes to complete a character sketch, this is what I have received. era". Obviously, this is not just the 12 years of the young MJ, but the 12 years in his perspective, including the 12 years of himself and his relatives, and the director's thinking about time and life.
MJ, who was born by accident, lost a complete family at birth. He is not as lively as his sister, and it is easier for him to convey the director's thoughts and feelings from a completely personal perspective. This closed and sensitive teenager grew up in the world of game consoles. He has an independent and strong mother and a cheerful and sunny father, but he has to experience a split almost every week. He grew up under the different educational methods of his parents. He moved because of his mother's N times of divorce, and he was always adapting to a new family environment and a new learning environment, so that when he grew up, he wanted to leave a certain moment worth remembering, and it was these moments in the eyes of the teenager. Build the entire movie.
A single-parent family is always full of more challenges and pressures than a complete family, and every member of a single-parent family also suffers from the pain of incompleteness. Throughout the story, the siblings and their parents face and resolve their own life problems. A single-parent family cannot lack the love of father and mother. For example, MJ was forcibly cut off his long hair by the professor's stepfather, while the mother had always been engrossed in her studies and ignored the idea of caring for her children. Of course, mothers with a background in psychology also know how to empathize, "if I would be angry" - this is empathy. No one is perfect, and the key is to have a home because it satisfies one's minimum relationship needs.
Life requires you to spend, it can be money, it can be energy, but it is worth spending and spending fun. "Flower" is a kind of giving. Only by giving your care and joy can you feel the response. It is not that you will feel happy if others express kindness, but you will be happy if you are willing to believe that it is the kindness of others and accept it. a feeling of. Be willing to believe is what you pay, that is the yearning and hope for good things that you voluntarily pay. In the latter part of the film, the question "What kind of person do you want to be?" is always involved. In fact, that is not the ultimate goal. As long as you show willingness to communicate, communicate with thoughts and feelings, and show your true side in goodwill, You can attract each other with the people around you, which is a mutual attraction for beautiful things.
I have expressed myself, and as for the response of others, it will come as soon as it is in harmony, and it will disappear if it does not. There have been many characters in the movie, such as MJ's clues, mother's clues, and father's clues. They operate on purpose but still can't escape the helplessness of life, but they also experience the beauty of life unintentionally. Independence and self-centeredness are not far apart. Respect is the last thread. It is very simple to get along with others. A good person who knows respect and trust is better than a talented person. Interacting with people is not just a transaction, but a heart-to-heart relationship. If there is no mutual respect, the relationship will be completely cut off. Therefore, because of his talent, his father and new girlfriend married, and his mother and professor formed a new family. MJ was able to enjoy passionate love for the first time; and because of respect, his mother and soldiers walked together, the plumber became the restaurant manager, and the mother and father could also I can always keep the link...
Although the film has not given any specific time prompts from beginning to end, I watched the family in the story step by step to the end and separated, looked at my mother, and sighed that "I just I thought life could be longer.” It turns out that the years are not only reflected in the growth of the teenager, but in fact, the mother has been working hard to grow up, but the wrinkles on her face are getting deeper and deeper, so we can immediately withdraw from the film and think about ourselves. life or the parents who have worked hard for us all our lives.
There are also some feelings that come from the American educational culture. For example, in an elementary school class, the teacher asked to use some mythical characters to compile the story, and in middle school, the teacher inspired MJ in the dark room and arranged for this gloomy and quiet young man. Take a set of passionate competition photos...
Linklater's films are full of so many unexpected and wonderful moments, so that you can't bear to miss every detail, and you can't pull every detail. Come and taste it, and give it a conclusion, they need to resonate with your own life insights to be more flavorful.
The last image time ends in a canyon, where all the pictures are frozen, and time seems to be frozen. The afterglow of the sunset and the red soil on the ground make the picture appear red in the dark room, and the sound of cicadas can be heard in the ears, even if the two are sitting on the ground. The young teenagers who peeked at each other were instantly as light as a wise old man.
Going back to the present moment, maybe when we meet again, we should ask: "How are you feeling?", not "What are you doing?" Still searching for the meaning of life? Does it matter? What matters is your perception and state at the moment.
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