This movie captures the parts of being a teenager that you have forgotten. I think the head injury is a red herring - I think this movie is about the environments that teenagers are raised in and the subtle ways that they can effect them, ways that can slip past adults and older figures because they didn't deal with their trauma either. Age is not a guarantee that someone will emotionally mature, even older adults who are responsible for you. I think Roman is suffering from the fact that nobody around him has given him an understanding on how to approach himself internally, and he is dealing with quite heavy ideas. He has decided on an abstract solution to some unapproachable emotion. You can feel the youth radiating off him in his conviction that there is some objective value to what he is doing. How many of us as a teenager became obsessed with something that reality could never support? All of us. But maybe we in some way learned to approach what haunted us and could process. But not this kid, unfortunately. Something has made this teenager wander into an open, unchallenged space in his mind and there is no one who can meet him there - all they can say is, you're different since the bike accident. This is the tragedy. When you cannot understand what someone is thinking, there is a permanent green light to something on in their head until they choose to stop it. And they have to want to change their thoughts. Essentially, they are in their own hands. And he's way too young for that.
This movie captures the parts of being a teenager that you have forgotten. I think the head injury is a red herring - I think this movie is about the environments that teenagers are raised in and the subtle ways that they can effect them, ways that can slip past adults and older figures because they didn't deal with their trauma either. Age is not a guarantee that someone will emotionally mature, even older adults who are responsible for you.
I think Roman is suffering from the fact that nobody around him has given him an understanding on how to approach himself internally, and he is dealing with quite heavy ideas. He has decided on an abstract solution to some unapproachable emotion. You can feel the youth radiating off him in his conviction that there is some objective value to what he is doing. How many of us as a teenager became obsessed with something that reality could never support? All of us. But maybe we in some way learned to approach what haunted us and could process. But not this kid, unfortunately.
Something has made this teenager wander into an open, unchallenged space in his mind and there is no one who can meet him there - all they can say is, you're different since the bike accident. This is the tragedy. When you cannot understand what someone is thinking, there is a permanent green light to something on in their head until they choose to stop it. And they have to want to change their thoughts. Essentially, they are in their own hands. And he's way too young for that.
Been looking for this movie for SO LONG. Tysm for uploading it here