"Turning 18", director Tchao-Ti HO . For some reason, I don't see it as v hopeless sad and as terrible hardship as the presentation had hinted. It rather came through as a calm, rippling effect of how young people grow up in families that are not presented with a slick façade. The director has a v gd aesthetic sense, it's sets the tone v well right from the beginning w a yg adolescent girl sitting on a wooden bench rocking on it slightly listlessly. This sets the tone of the lives of the families we are about to see. And other shots of water reflection, the surface is moving but there is a shadow that remains in the same spot while the water surface moves on and on... the two young girls both are gd looking. One had a baby w an equally YG bf - also gd looking. The underlying hint seems to me to be that with the proper setting / supports these young people could have such a better future through better adult guidance. All this is v soft, no big violence, just like wasted time wasted opportunities. I did not feel deep sadness or shock. Maybe because in a North American setting much tougher scenes have been shown, both in docu and fictions. However, I still want to watch the movie v carefully. The ambiance the details the people, they are pure and not twisted w perversion. It's almost like, it's natural like wild flowers wild plants, without specific care it will grow as it can with all the luck or lack of luck in natural dosage, with time.
People grow up.
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