![]() He doesn't establish an illusion of the past and try to bring the audience into it. He does this, at least in part, by consistently reminding the audience that it's looking at the past. And that is the feeling that Mills creates and instills. Looking back brings mixed feelings of omniscience and helplessness, as well as awe before the mystery. They had the options that were available at the time, and now we know how things worked out for them. They saw the world through 20th-century eyes. Mills ("Beginners") was born in 1966, and for a lot of us who lived a substantial portion of our lives in the past century, there's a weird thing that sometimes happens as we think of people from our past, who were older than we were. Along with the boy's sister-like best friend, they become a kind of family, and all end up raising the boy. To make extra money, they have two boarders: a man who fixes cars and a young woman in her 20s. Written and directed by Mike Mills, and loosely based on his own childhood, it tells the story of a teenage boy being raised by a single mother in a big house in Santa Barbara, Calif. ![]()
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