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Transcript read by a machine from the typewritten page. The typos are mine or the machine’s.
I watched a movie last night where almost lothing happened. There were three nearly lao. ated storine ab u! family, w• toll anothor. within a family. It was about 1i of Lamily and it was about the silence that 101 in and boyond thom, There mere thing shared ACrI .11 three the beatuy of young poople skateboarding. idea of going novherosrille. The posesaion of a rolex ratch. The concopt tha you cannot toast withanything but alcohol. The existance •1 family relations. But otherwise the movie vas just about a few different conversations that vere extremely mundano. There was no action to speak of. Ther e was no dangor that at some point there would be real stakes to the story. And ultimately, there was no point to any of it.
I loved it still.
I thinx it is because I believe what the movie believes: all conversations are essentially the same conversation. All families are essentiall the same family. 1ll lies and half truths are the same too. And ultimately nothing really happens. #s It is about coing from one place to another and mooting your family there. It is about amasming a whole bunch of stuff and then noeding to find places for it. It is about showing one side of yourself an d then shoving another to different poople. It is about the past in ways that ve can mover quite comprehend. It is about our umpaid debts to one another and the things that we feeled are oved to us.
My story is your story is my story is your story.
And ve turn into our parents, so we try dot to turn into our parents. But we still turm into our parents.
Oh, and "bob/s your uncle" wha shared across all of the tatories. Babause #ub he is. Bob is all of our uncles. He never stops beins our uncle because that ishow time works. One thing leads to the next and them, Bob's your uncle... you are old and you have told more lies than you would have liked and you are far loss interesting than you thought you were when you were young aad the crare is far closerthan you over thought possible. dad you can either have a lifo where you see your kids once a yoar or maybe less und you don't say anything real to one another, or Jou cam leare a legacy oi love that will outlast your It isa't just the stuff and the pictures. It is the sum total of the tine you spent together. Does it have voight? Does it mean something? And what should we do with it all?
I en a father. A son. & brother. & partnor. Sonotinos I play these roles well. Somotines not. Soos I will bo none of those. And both my lies and truths will tell my story.