Tokenized Human
@tokenizedhuman
I finished Adolescence last night. Wanted to let it percolate for a bit before typing up my thoughts. From a purely technical perspective, it's an absolute masterpiece. Four episodes shot at four different points across a 13 month timeline all in a single shot throws up a multitude of limitations. The camera follows characters from one scene to the next, sometimes transitioning from one actor to another to provide a natural segmentation where a cut would usually reside, it goes in and out of houses and office rooms, and school classrooms, it circles our protagonists in close up yet never impedes (not once did I catch an actor breaking the fourth wall), and at one jaw-dropping point in the last episode, it mounts the outside of a car for a near ten journey along the motorway to a DIY store.
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jp 🎩
@jpfraneto.eth
just sent my partner an invitation to have a date watching today. i will try to remember to come back after i watch it and read what you wrote here. amazing stuff. thank you for sharing
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Tokenized Human
@tokenizedhuman
I wish I'd watched it with my partner. She didn't want to see it for fear of being upset by it so I watched it alone and everyone at our school is taking about it so she's decided she has to watch it now too. I may try to watch it with her too, if she lets me, I'd like to see it again, having now seen it through once. Let me know what you think when you see it. It asks questions that are uncomfortable but are questions we all need to be asking ourselves, plus it so brilliantly represents the reality of life as a parent and that struggle of how much your able to influence (or should take responsibility for) the direction of your children's lives. I loved it. It's this kind of ultra realistic stuff I've been trying to write myself recently.
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