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Over the past week or so I watched the following movies:
The Life Aquatic
The United States of Leland
Garden State

For some reason I felt very moved/touched/whatever by each one of them. After some pondering I decided the reason for this is that they touched on different stages of my life, or rather my growing-up.

Watching Jacques Cousteau documentaries and being captivated by the marvelous amphibious vehicles was what Life Aquatic reminded me of. That was of course when I was very little.

US of Leland had me thinking a bit about those teenage/adolescent years when we thought we knew it all and knowing it all was just so ‘incredibly intense’. That kind of beautiful fucked-upness that we were too grateful to leave behind, but sometimes miss just a little.

And then Garden State had me in quarter life crisis again. Not being sure, coming out of adolescence and feeling so totally numb and pointless, but then things start making sense again and you start finding your feet and its all going to be okay.

It is kind of neat to be able to experience feelings and emotions from the past through the movies. It also helps sometimes making sense of what life was then.

What I want to see now is the movie that deals with life in the late twenties and early thirties.

But of course, I will only discover this movie when I hit 37.