What was your childhood like?

When linklater was a child in Mei Sen, he said that in the trilogy, there is no longer a long-term uninterrupted truth and philosophy, communication and estrangement, but the picture itself is told, realistic and sketched. We can only see young Mei Sen and his friends looking at sexy women from a distance, but we can't hear clearly what they are discussing. We can only see the quarrel between mother and biological father outside the window through Mei Sen's eyes, and see the back of father's dejected departure, but we don't know what they are arguing about. We can only see that Sam is always an adult and doesn't like Mei Sen, but we can't figure out why. Because many people are like this when they are young, they are more figurative than abstract words and sentences.

Later, silence became a simple sentence and a simple expression. Turning to the university classroom, Mei Sen saw his mother and professor close. He asked his mother, do you like him? When my stepfather cut Mei Sen's hair, he told his mother that he cut my hair without my permission and I didn't like him. In this way, one day when he rode home with his friends, he saw his mother lying on the ground crying, his stepfather who angrily broke a cup at the dinner table, and finally his mother called the names of Mei Sen and Samantha downstairs. The primary school life led by his mother was coming to an end.

With a more complicated understanding of the world, Mei Sen no longer simply expressed himself, but became a little tentative and clumsy. When he saw his mother chatting happily with a new man at the party, he stopped asking his mother if you liked him. Mei Sen is no longer just chatting with her mother, but is willing to chat with girls and tell her that I like chatting with you. I will secretly drink beer with boys, talk about sexual experience, and lightly say "whatever" in American adult words. Handsome short hair has been replaced by the Beatles' long hair for several years, and his eyes have become more melancholy and his expression on adults has become more and more awkward. Much more trouble, but not as much as the bills piled up by my mother on the table. I began to think about my interests and future. I seem to understand, but I don't seem to understand. Some meanings and directions are vacillating, just like his vacillating eyes. At the end of such a boyhood, the abstract vocabulary of hit floor began to increase, still wavering, but more determined, out-of-focus eyes turned into fixed-point search. On the wasteland, the communication with the girl I met on the first day of the university about our catching the moment or catching us instantly seemed to resonate with each other. Their eyes met, but it seemed that they were not as thorough and direct as they arrived. But the movie is over, and so is my childhood. But Mei Sen's life is not over yet, and his expression continues, and his thinking will continue. 12 years, just like a documentary, recorded the 12 years of Mei Sen and his family. Three hours, watching the same boy change his hair styles and dress up. From the age of 6 to 18, the same girl became a real stunner from childhood. 12 years, the same mother just changed her hairstyle, house and husband, while her father just sold her car, changed her wife and raised her son.

Although only an ordinary American boy 12 and an American family 12 were recorded, many people must feel deja vu, because we have all experienced such a process of expression and the maintenance of such a family.