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I watched this documentary this afternoon, and really like it. It's quite entertaining, and though I've never been to America, it feels quite realistic to me.
I've been a teenager not so long ago, and still can feel how that life feels. As a Chinese, most of us more or less feel jealous about American teenagers-they always seems live in a more wealthy life, have more freedom no matter in express their ideas or do things they like. The culture which open for sex and independent life always make people around me say: if i live in America...
But after watching this film, I understand that American Teenagers also have their own problems, and if we see that from the original, we have so many common issues waiting to solve.
When a boy or a girl riches 14 or so, we are sexually available, and sexual fantasy come along with it. Parents and teachers never tell us how to hook up with guys or girls, vise visa, they always tell us it is wrong to fall in love as a teen age boy, actually, they tell us it is wrong to fall in love as long as we are still a student-no matter we are 24 or 27. Hand in hand with the opposite sex is highly not allowed, don't even mention kiss. this always seem some kind of crucial for me, i just believe people should have the right to do anything they want and they can, on the condition of not harming others. Stopping others from doing things they really like, that is sin. Well, this is Chinese teenagers' dissatisfaction.
But as i see these American boys and girls like and hate each other, flirting with the ones they like, bitching about other girls' private life and do bad thing upon their back... it just feels exactly the same with my senior years, at this point, don't have sexual education is not that important and not make me that mad anymore, what really beautiful in this is the youth we had.
I've been cried for the boyfriend breaking, too. And i know my girl friend cried even harder than me, though my parents never know I had a boyfriend, other students parents seldom know they ever have boyfriends or girlfriends; in our school, we also have attractive guys every girl crushed on; they mathematic geek no girl wanna date; and of course, those bitches who always think they are the beauty queen, never know they are the most ugly person in the city from inside. We also have student who always want to go to the big city for their own dream, no matter how their parents freaked out-for he knows that this is the real way to live life, to step out and see the world as much as he can, and always do things he love and he's good at...
Yes, we are the same, no matter where you were brought up and grew up, there's no need to jealous anybody from and culture and maybe no need to feel sorry for anybody from any culture-if they come from a environment harder, they must saw something different which made their life different, and we should make this as a power but something feel sad. I think their must have a reason of the life we have which different from each other.
I love this film, not only it's entertaining, not only it showed me how American teenager's life is, but it made me realize: inside, we are all teenagers, we are all human beings, no matter which culture we are from, there's a way to make it beautiful and fabulous!
The rest of it, just don't care.
score 8/10
travel_berlin 6 January 2009
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