Movie Thoughts: Sing Street

I am on my way to Paris and am currently at Bangkok airport for a 9 hour transit.
On the plane, I watched this movie called Sing Street.
It’s been a while since I felt this much awe towards a single movie.

It’s one of those movies that I felt was just so good, you’re kind of in awe the second it ends and it takes moments for you to digest what you had just witnessed and to bring yourself back to reality. Sing Street was just so beautifully portrayed, artistically written and just so freaking RAW.

It's basically a coming of age film about a couple of teenagers who have family issues, internal struggles, habits. Looking back now, I guess they had one thing in common, which was boredom/conflict towards normality and status quo. There was this burning energy in side of all of these characters that they soon utilized into power to create art/music.
Eventually, the kids decide to form a band, and try to make it big.

The way these kids dreamed and questioned the current made me question what I was doing with my 青春 (Blue Spring Days).
The times where I was completely lost in my future plans that I lost track of the present. The times when I couldn't figure out who my real friends were because popularity and image seemed to exceed the actual value it has. The times where I would be so sad and find a Van Gogh artwork, and feel so immaturely but purely attached to it.

I realized that those “blue” days are never going to come back. That me, that 14 year old me was never going to come back.
I just want to ask myself now if I was able to live those days without any regrets.

But then, my mind wakes up to the fact that I am 23 and heck there's a lot more I can be doing about my life and a lot less worrying.

20 years from now, 30 years from now, when we die, it’s not going to matter what company we went to, how much money we made, how many times we were able to buy dinner for somebody,
it’s going to be about how many times we said yes to a wild thought, how many times we travelled to see the world, how much love we were able to share to another person.

Although I’m not a teenager anymore, what life is, and the fundamental elements should not change.

Drive it like you stole it. (Sing Street, 2016)