tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255724428754538759.post7486245862587153498..comments2023-03-25T00:52:19.368-07:00Comments on Narry Borman: BoyhoodNarry Bormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16814838095808221731noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255724428754538759.post-47363719295108253312014-09-27T11:43:58.387-07:002014-09-27T11:43:58.387-07:00True. An interesting idea and concept and for it t...True. An interesting idea and concept and for it to be filmed as a fictional story with the same cast is pretty cool. But the really disappointing part of the realisation of this idea was the reliance on the stereotypical Americanisms and American dreams. Dreams of being unique and different from the average guy, without realising that the uniqueness they are striving for just moves them into another stereotypical group or category whose personality traits and goals are just as predictable and arguably mundane as the 'average guys'. They don't want to be heroes, they don't want to be powerful, but 'fight with everyone else'...fight the same ideas, the same 'power', the same 'classes' without an inkling of an original idea. Without realising just how influenced they’ve been by the culture that surrounds them, the people they idolize, and the places they find themselves in and just how similar this can be despite the variation in the places or experiences. The ending for me felt like a living oxymoron. In my head, Mason when he just moved to college, even although we only see his first few hours, seemed like the one and only glimmer of hope that he might move on and actually become someone or do something unique and abstract from the typical American dreams (deliberately plural to include the groups that think they're standing out) because for a brief 10 seconds it actually made me think of what could have been the start of Christopher McCandless' (Supertramp) start at college (Film: Into the Wild, 2007; the biographical adaptation of the survival and travels of Christopher McCandless). Yet again, the unsurprising Americanisms take over again with the fact he happened to be roommates with a guy with a practically identical personality and be surrounded already by those who want to just 'experience life as it comes', 'live in the moment' and who held other similarly nauseating ideas that belong to those who think they stand out and are immensely superior to your average guy because of their unique thinking and outlook in life. <br />If there was a sequel, I'm not saying I wouldn't watch it...but honestly, that'd probably just be for the soundtrack.<br />PCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com