I found this movie purely by chance. It seemed like the plot was plain. Less than half the time, I started to get distracted, so I went online to find an introduction, and then I discovered that this movie is so awesome!

At first, I thought that the leading actors of different ages looked quite similar, but what I didn’t expect was that the boys from 6 to 18 years old were the same person! ! ! This is actually a film that took 12 years to film.

The movie tells the story of a young man’s growth. At the beginning, 6-year-old Mason looked at the sky, and the music of Yellow came to mind in the background. Look at the star, look at they shine for you... Mason's parents are always quarreling, and his sister Samantha likes to play tricks on him. Mason sometimes peeks at bikini magazines with his friends, and innocently points with his fingers. Sometimes he likes Collecting strange animal bones, but dad doesn't like looking at his collection. Later, mother Olivier left father Mason Sr. and moved to Houston to raise a family while studying for a degree. Mason starts a new school life, meeting new friends and enemies. Later, my mother got married again, and Mason and Samantha formed a new family with another pair of siblings. They often met with their father, Mason Sr., who worked hard to be friends with the siblings, and even worked hard and frankly talked about contraception with Samantha, who was just starting to fall in love. Later, my stepfather became alcoholic and violent, my mother divorced, and they moved again. Mason has long, rebellious hair and goes camping and playing music with his father; his mother became a university lecturer and got married again, and his sister went to college. Mason started drinking, smoking marijuana, having girlfriends, and especially fell in love with photography.

Dad also got married, and Mason had a new family. Mom got divorced again and moved again. The 18-year-old Mason graduated from high school, packed up his bags, and entered college.

Incredibly, independent director Richard Linklater filmed from the Year of the Snake (2002) to the Year of the Snake (2013). A director and a group of actors star the little boy Mason from childhood to adulthood, and Mason's parents from youth to middle age. In the past 12 years, they have gathered together for 4 or 5 days every year to write and film at the same time. Some of the plots are the actors' real life experiences. Director Linklater deserves to be called the most calm director in history. Let’s look at his name again: Linklater, which clearly means “later to link everything together”.

?This 166-minute film is not so much a movie as it is a condensed documentary with performances about the growth of ordinary Americans. The plot of the film does not have any obvious ups and downs, but instead lightly describes the details of a person's growth process: moving for the first time, changing schools, leaving parents, making friends, new hobbies, winning awards, drinking, kissing... film What is recorded is the ordinary waves, big or small, casual or unintentional. We pass through every moment, and in fact, every moment freezes us. Ending:

At the same time, this film has also been exploring the relationship between parents and children. Having a child doesn't mean you can become an adult overnight. Mason is growing, his parents are growing too, and the relationship between them also needs to continue to develop and grow. Mason Sr became a father in his early 20s, and Olivier thought he lacked a sense of responsibility. But after the breakup, he worked very hard to get closer to his two children. He rejects the formal way of communication between father and son: "I will not be that guy — you cannot put me in that category." Facing the people closest to them, people's behavior is not politeness, but the ability to act coquettishly and complain without any scruples. ,presumptuous. MasonSr hopes to be a friend who can truly communicate with children.

Although Olivier and Mason Sr. in the film have not changed as much as the children, their appearance still has traces of time. Reality tells them that having children is not the end. Families are reunited, careers are developing, life choices are still going on, and time will eventually change everything.

When Mason was about to leave home to go to college, he casually said goodbye to his mother, and Olivier suddenly collapsed:

?Recently some people say that "The Year in a Hurry" is a movie that relies on nostalgia. It’s a bad movie that makes you cry, but I want to say that the most basic function of movies is to preserve memories, to preserve the behavior of a specific group in a specific time and space, and to use stories with symbols of the times to evoke memories, cries and reflections. This Nothing wrong with that. The Boyhood film is deeply rooted in the social trends experienced by this generation of Americans at the beginning of the 21st century: the Iraq War, Obama's campaign, Harry Potter, the development of computers, etc., as vivid as yesterday.

Every moment, the people around you, and the era you live in eventually organically form a living and complete body. Growth just happens. Mason wanted to know "What are all these for?" and his parents were equally confused. There is no answer to this question, because growing up is not a choice. Everyone is like this, just spending every moment plainly.