Yeah, i know, i can hear you "Back to the Future ? Not really a teenage movie... more a clip about the 80's...". Well, i just watched the first opus this weekend, and i can assure you, this is one of the last 20 years best teenmovies.
Why ? Let me explain it to you. When you become a teenager, you start to realize the consequences of your acts. You have a new and scary consciousness of the world around you. The Past can become, sometimes, a refuge because when you were a child, it was inevitably better.
Imagine that you could rejoin this Past, the perfect teenage dream, you can control your acts, repair your mistakes, change your destiny... Suddenly, this world doesn't scare you anymore, because you control it ! Nothing can touch you, because you've got the time in your pocket.
Only a teenager with slim-cut jeans and fluo tshirt like Micheal J. Fox was able to do this trip. He was cool, classy, courageous but with this little touch of innocence which only real heroes can have.
What is the morality of this film ? Every decision, every movement has an impact on your future, so let's think about it ans do the right things, because, to my mind, it's clearly improbable that your future son will tell you how to catch your mum...
Yeah... This is what it is to be an adult, you have no excuses for anything, what you are, what you have, it depends on you and only you... Unfair ? Wrong ? Maybe, but in "Back to the future" we just can imagine the contrary, and we can't avoid simulating what would be our life if we had accepted this date, hit this douchebag in highschool, or gone to India for 1 year...
So, what did Doc say at the end of the first movie "Roads ? Where we're going, we don't need roads." In other words, don't care about your future kids, just enjoy !
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This is indeed the ultimate teen movie (perhaps not of your generation, but still...) A good addition to your subject.
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