Adolescence tells a story about youth, dreams, and the inevitability and contingency of life from the perspectives of two girls. The quiet and reserve[Expand All]
Adolescence tells a story about youth, dreams, and the inevitability and contingency of life from the perspectives of two girls. The quiet and reserved girl Xi 'er and Song Ning play out a love story that has been entangled for over a decade. Enthusiasm, generosity, fantasy, despair - all these traditional qualities of youth - all qualities other than youth - are born and die together with our lives. These emotions are an integral part of life. But what about the tenderness of youth - that kind of energetic laziness, that kind of self-admiring sentiment - these belong only to youth and fade away along with it.[Collapse]