Mar 26, 2022
For two days now I've been remembering the "I don't have any potential" scene in Boy, when he finally realises the kind of father he has and the kind of life he is living. The power of using that sentence to mean something positive and hopeful, to disengage from the idealisation he had for his father and choose a different path. It is the culmination of Boy's work during the movie, an itch that needed scratching. It is a hard movie, a hard scene and even so, it is soothing. A different take on the coming of age trope, and this scene holds so much of it, so much love.