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Your favorite coming of age movies

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    #92
    HensVassal
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    A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »
    So why quote me with that in your post?

    But I didn't quote you.


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    #93
    A Dub in Glasgo
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    HensVassal wrote: »
    But I didn't quote you.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=99405854&postcount=79


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    #94
    Olishi4
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    HensVassal wrote: »
    Jimmy didn't come of age, he just did a load of drugs and couldn't handle when the hooliganism was over.

    Really? I didn't take it that way. A young man who thinks he's part of something big and trying to find his identity. With part of the mod scene, he heads away from his boring life to Brighton and he ends up disappointed at the realisation that his idol Ace is actually a bell boy. The ending is left ambiguous.


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    #95
    mariaalice
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    Goodwill hunting.


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    HensVassal wrote: »
    Seems to me that very few people know what "coming of age" actually means.

    Generally it means (to me at least) the process of going through trials and tribulations and emerging from them over time into a different (sometimes enlightened, sometimes cynical or damaged) person.

    I don't see any of this process in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. How do you come of age in 8 hours? The only personality sea change was Cameron's decision to confront his overbearing father.

    I don't think it has to involve someone changing or some great self realisation moment, it could involve a very simple story of growing up and wrestling with teenage issues. In Ferris Bueller, as you note the significant change is with Cameron, but one could argue that Ferris learns a deeper appreciation of his friend, his sister becomes a lot less confrontational and hung up about her brother hogging the limelight and so on.


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    #97
    timthumbni
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    Pretty in pink

    Heathers

    Donne Darko


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    #98
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    timthumbni wrote: »
    Pretty in pink

    Heathers

    Donne Darko

    Ah.

    Donnie Darko.

    Now why couldn't I think of one of the real greats of recent years. A classic. Think it's highly underrated. The scene where characters at the school are introduced...memorable.


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    Anesthetize
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    Mysterious Skin

    A grittier and darker take on the coming of age genre, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It can be uncomfortable to watch at times but it's an incredibly moving film.

    And any film which has a soundtrack featuring Sigur Ros, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, Ride and Curve has to be good.


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    #100
    poa
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    Gommorah.


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