Coming of Age

I think that My Life as a Dog fits in here. An excellent children’s movie for grown-ups – that’s extremely Swedish.

Billy Liar (1963) directed by John Schlesinger from an adaptation of the Keith Waterhouse novel
Look Back In Anger (1958) directed by Tony Richardson from an adaptation of the John Osborne play

Atavachron wrote: Finnforest wrote: Ghost World Jim; I always felt like the end suggested the characters were dead, which made the title make sense..did you get that too or was I just imagining? (I know the comic book but never really read it)

1. Omg yes
2. I dunno k 

Atavachron wrote: 40footwolf wrote: I don't think the coming-of-age genre has disappeared or gotten worse: I think it's just been adapted into other genres. In the movies I've mentioned, for example, it takes the form of a fantasy movie and two crime films, but they're still at their heart movies about young people coming to terms with their man/womanhood. In fact, in that light, I'd say that the '00s was maybe the best decade for CoA films there ever was.  that could be true-  I guess it's hard not be most impacted by the films seen in one's youth, whenever they were actually made

My favorites are:

 ^ I should see Good Will Hunting again, I wasn't so impressed with it the first time (though I am a Damon fan, The Talented Mr Ripley, Bourne Identity)

Anyone know a cult film called Bless the Beasts and the Children ?;  Bill Mumy and a pack of misfit kids run amok in the California hills on a mission to set a heard of Buffalo free.  This is weird '70s coming-of-age at its most disturbed and dark, kinda like Last Summer or Badlands but with much younger kids.




Edited by Atavachron - October 01 2011 at 18:56

Slartibartfast wrote: Finnforest wrote: Clerks This.

Finnforest wrote: Clerks

This.

 

JJLehto wrote: Indeed, and short response to Henry: Like I said it's not "really" coming of age as we know it but still....I see the relevance. Personally, I DO see it as accurate for us. Not that we're gunna go insane and start fight clubs to get out anger but well...we are coming of age Henners in a pretty bleak state, and FC feels like it's accurate of our country, ya know? Well guess you don't because I'm not sure but makes sense in my head.  yadda yadda who knows

I agree it's relevant for the thread, but it is not really relevant for 2011. Tyler Durden saw modern society as antiseptic, orderly, and grinding. There was no real risk in your life, you just needed to work at a corporation for 50 years, pounding away every day in mediocre paperwork, and then die of diabetes in a retirement home, spending your final days watching reruns of Matlock. He wanted to live in a world where your survival was not guaranteed, and thus every day was uncertain and thus exciting. So he injected chaos into everything he could and attempted to bring down modern civilization. Well guess what? Your life is pretty uncertain, America is crumbling, and that soul-crushing job looks a lot better when you have been unemployed for 3 years. Next time you're in McDonald's, look at the poster for the Monopoly promotion. Assuming they're all the same, it will say "Lose the second job--one million dollars". We are no longer living in the world he was rebelling against. I think Tyler would be very happy with the progress we've made without him and would be firebombing buildings at Tea Party rallies and Occupy Wall St. 

(And the whole point of the movie was that he was wrong, anyway...)

Atavachron wrote: Vompatti wrote: Alice in the Cities  One of my favorites from Wenders.   Do you know The Tin Drum ? (by Schlondorff)

Yes.