In fact, this film is not a movie, but basically an American drama, because this film can't rely on the edge of art film or film art at all, it is simply the trivial and bloody life of the middle class in Texas, and its performance is almost as exaggerated as that of American drama. However, the important thing is this but, from 6 to 18 years old, for 12 years, no film will be shot like this, but Lin Dao dared to do this, and time piled up, seeing that there could be no audience who didn't "hurt themselves" in the end. Some people laughed next to me, some sighed, and some people looked down and silently wiped their eyes. I knew that this was the director's sensation, but it was so comfortable. In fact, at the end, it really had all the shortcomings.
There is no need to introduce the directors, actors and the background of the film too much. In fact, just say that this film has been filmed in an ordinary American family for 12 years (more specifically, 12 summers, basically in the summer vacation), but without changing the actors, it is enough to keep the film history forever. Suddenly, this film is actually closer to Bazin's so-called "the essence of film". As a life asymptote or "mummy complex", no matter how bloody the plot is (let alone not very bloody), it really completes the so-called "gaze at time", just like when writing the drama review of [Friends], many people will write "grow old with us". It is not important whether the American drama is good or not. Once the finale is reached, these accumulated emotions will burst out in a concentrated way, such as the previous [Romantic History of Mom and Dad]. But this is the meaning of the so-called family friendship. It is there, always there. Looking back, you will be moved by them and yourself, that's all.
According to the standard of American TV series, [youth time] probably corresponds to [growing pains]. Although the family in the film is not a model family, and the hero and children have no long disabilities, every season with an average of ten minutes is adhering to the principles of development, contradictions, solutions, new characters and so on. One thing I especially like about plays is that I don't explain all these things, never pave the way for the previous history, never explain the relationship between characters, and throw them to the audience for brain supplement. In fact, this is also a way to reduce the feeling of long story, but it is really effective. In fact, characterization is also flat. My father has always been a child who can't grow up. My mother is a modern intellectual woman who is unwilling to be a housewife in the middle class suburbs and seeks self-realization. She has found a new husband and a new boyfriend and finally became an alcoholic; Throughout the whole film, there are two problems that the leading actor has always been educated: "Think about what kind of person you want to be in the future" and "You must be responsible". The latter one is a little annoying when it is said too many times. According to the film standards, of course, first of all, there are [Harry Potter] films which consciously form an intertextual relationship in the film (also known for not changing actors, and Mr. Dai Jinhua has a wonderful exposition on this "youth pain"), then there are the [Before XXXX] series directed by the director, and of course, there are two films such as the Little Fresh Bible [One Day] and claude lelouch's [One Man and One Woman]. Valda made a lot of documentaries revisiting the films of that year ... Compared with these films, the best thing about this film is that in fact, growth is time itself, and many things have happened, but nothing has happened, because it is only important to you.
Just as the mother in the film decisively sold the house to the apartment after her son finally graduated from high school, and said goodbye to her son, life is just love, marriage, divorce, marriage and divorce. It seems that the child learned to ride a bicycle the day before. "It's my funeral!" "I want more!" More is just "time, please stop". My son's big party after graduating from high school is a perfect happy ending, but the great thing is that the director has added four more plays, a father and son (before that, the stalk of the same name of father and son was basically not emphasized), and a mother announced to her children that she would sell the house (the stalk of the Mexican coolie is really wonderful! Although sincerely deliberate but sincerely perfect), a mother and son's new life after entering university (this paragraph immediately reminds people of [Toy Story 3]. These five sections of sensationalism, coupled with the accumulation of more than two hours in the past, the high-level audience is estimated to be unable to hold back ...
Fortunately, the film stayed in ordinary families all the time, and the teenager just grew up quietly, didn't take drugs and promiscuity, didn't rebel without cause, didn't suffer from more campus violence, didn't become a stupid, black and rough sports student, especially grew up as a literary youth but didn't follow his father's footsteps to play music (when he was a child, he saw a guitar in his room one year, and thought it would be like this), and became a photographer with special relevance. This can't be said to be deliberate, but it's quite accurate (is this the ambiguity of art films, or is the script off-line, or is the director teasing the audience? )。 Shota used this stalk well (including several seasons of long hair, especially the long hair cut off by his first stepfather), and the acne on his face and the beard growing at the end pretending to be old were better.
At the end of the film, the mother decisively "gave up her life" and asked a pair of children to sort things, leave them, throw them and sell them. When she moved into the apartment, there were only simple things, but when her son went to school, there were only three pieces of luggage. Just like the numerous characters in the film, a few of them appear on graduation parties, and most of them just disappear. Just like riding a bicycle chasing a moving car in the first season, many people are destined to be passers-by in your life. Life is endless, possibilities are endless, there will always be people coming and going, you have fixed time or memory, but just like the classic lyrics of Song Fatzi, those summers can't come back like youth. To put it bluntly, it is really a simple thing. Sometimes you just need a beginning and an end.