At the dawn of the eighties, I was a little kid trying to deal with divorced parents, being crappy at sports, and the overwhelming feeling of not fitting in. My grandma was the first person I knew with cable, and since I was addicted to movies, I watched a few things that I was probably too young to fully understand, but which I still love to this day: Foxes, Foul Play, Heaven Can Wait, and Meatballs.
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“He had been a tool in their hands, his childhood image had been used as bait to condition him, he had lived up to their expectations, he had played his part. Now he only waited to be liquidated with, somewhere inside him, the memory of a twice-lived fragment of time.”
From La Jetée, written and directed by Chris Marker, 1962
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In Rebel Without a Cause, Natalie Wood portrays Judy, a tough-talking teenage girl who exasperates her parents. She doesn’t seem to be able to decide if she wants to be a little girl or a grown-up. Her mother tries to placate Judy’s frustrated father by saying:
“She’ll outgrow it, dear. It’s just the age. It’s just the age when nothing fits.”