BOYHOOD

I’m a guy who adores America in so many ways. Dari cara mereka berbicara, gaya hidup, pemikiran, terlihat sangat menyenangkan. My body shakes when I’m watching good american movies, atau ketika mendengarkan musik-musik barat berbahasa inggris yang saya anggap keren. Boyhood merupakan film-barat favorit saya sepanjang masa. Boyhood, film amerika yang menceritakan kehidupan seorang bocah, dari kecil sampai dia besar. Inti dari film ini adalah sebuah perjalanan, lengkap dengan intrik-intrik yang sederhana sampai kompleks—maaf jika sedikit spoiler. Pembuatan film ini cukup memakan waktu yang cukup panjang, yaitu sampai 12 tahun. Dibumbui dengan percakapan-percakapan yang amerika banget. Sudah tak terhitung berapa kali saya menonton film ini, tapi kebanyakan hanya saya ulangi dibeberapa scenes favorit saya saja. Nah, di post ini saya akan menuliskan beberapa scene favorit saya di Boyhood, mungkin ini akan menjadi spoiler bagi yang belum nonton.

Scene: Percakapan antara Mason dan Ibunya, pada hari dimana Mason akan memulai kuliahnya, pindahan dari rumah ke asrama, packing things.

Mason: Isn’t that kind of crazy, though, that a computer knows who you are from just 20 questions off a form? I guess there are really only like eight types of people in the world. I mean, there are subsets like male and female, but apparently we’re not as unique as we want to think we are.

Mother: Have you even talked to this guy yet?

No, but we’ve been trading emails. He seems pretty cool. He’s studying literature and anthropology and he’s way into Bright Eyes, so that’s not so bad. But, anyways, he was telling me about how the system they use for assigning roommates is kinda spooky. The freshman satisfaction rate for new roommates used to be like 60%, and now it’s 100, just ’cause of the computer.

Well, sounds like he’ll be a good roommate, then.

Yeah. But we pretty much decided that soon they won’t even need a questionnaire ’cause they’ll just let the NSA scan your digital ghost and they’ll tell you who your roommate is based on everything you’ve ever said, written or clicked.

Did you put this in here again? *menunjukan sebuah foto di dalam kardus box yang sedang dipack olehnya, kemudian tertawa*

I don’t want it.

Come on, it’s the first picture you ever took.

All the more reason to leave it behind, right?

*dan kemudian Ibunya menangis*

What?

Nothing.

No, what is it? Mom.

This is the worst day of my life.

What’re you talking about?

I knew this day was coming. I didn’t know you were gonna be so fuckin’ happy to be leaving.

I mean, it’s not that I’m that happy. What do you expect?

You know what I’m realizing? My life is just gonna go, like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced again. Getting my master’s degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what’s next’? Huh? It’s my fuckin’ funeral! Just go! And leave my picture!

Aren’t you jumping ahead by, like, 40 years or something?

I just thought there would be more.

Dan kemudian diputarlah salah satu lagu favorit saya, Hero – Family of the Year. Lagu tersebut seakan mempertegas scene di atas, yaitu rasa posesif orang tua Mason, yang pada akhirnya harus melepaskan anaknya, dimana Mason pun juga ingin lepas dari rasa posesif tersebut. Terkadang, hal terberat dalam hidup kita bukanlah mendapatkan apa yang kita inginkan, tetapi melepaskan apa yang sudah kita dapatkan.