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Deeper meaning hides within '20th Century Women'

The film captures the way we think about people we knew and the lives they lived when we remember them from the distance of decades. Written and directed by Mike Mills, and loosely based on his own childhood, it tells the story of a teenage boy being raised by a single mother in a big house in Santa Barbara, Calif. Mills ("Beginners") was born in 1966, and for a lot of us who lived a substantial portion of our lives in the past century, there's a weird thing that sometimes happens as we think of people from our past, who were older than we were. Abbie tries to teach Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) to be a sensitive man and tells him about punk rock and women's orgasms. [...] she regards him as a best friend, leans on him for relationship advice and has the habit of stripping down to her underwear and climbing into his bed to express sisterly closeness. Tangentially, the world outside goes by - the world is always tangential, except in times of calamity - and so we hear and see manifestations of things like punk rock art shows and early skateboarding culture. In 1979, it was still possible to find otherwise intelligent, sensible people smoking around the clock.

 

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