Letterboxd — Your life in film

You either die the narrator of a Billy Joel song or live long enough to become the narrator of a Bruce Springsteen song.

One could easily walk away from this movie finding its vision of growing up incredibly depressing, but I don’t quite see it that way because overall the film seems much more interested in expressing a subjective emotional truth than in observing a cold, hard material one. The grittier “realism” of the back half is no less of…