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Breaking Away

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Breaking Away

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐’𝘮 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘶𝘺𝘴.” “𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳..” The film Linklater wishes he could’ve made. Teenage coming of age that plays into its beats perfectly. On love, losing, longing, and making it all right before the end of summer. Everything to its title, the film moves like waves, offering us the sad and the happy with gorgeous sets of one of those towns you always hear about, full of do-nothings with nobodies that don’t get a whole lot down, but a win is a win, whether its a race or a girl, or even your own happiness. It’s as if the Stand By Me (https://letterboxd.com/film/stand-by-me/) kids grew a little older, but still had a lot of growing to do, the painstakingly painful ones, that hell called puberty into adulthood. It aches, but Yates makes it look so glorious, difficult, but glorious. Blame the gorgeous sun or the golden empty fields, but it’s one that depicts that final summer after high school. How will you live for the rest of your life?