FCS wrote:
>> ... That is 'coming of age', is it not?
>
> I didn't think that was the point of, say,
> "American Graffitti", which is a classic
> "coming of age" movie. I'm struggling for
> a British one. I guess that perhaps one or
> other of the youth-soaps on C4/C5 family
> of channels is roughly there. Hollyoaks
> is a "coming of age" soap in many ways,
> but the movie is one narrative whereas the
> point of serials is ongoing development...
>
Not having seen the film you mention, I have no idea what the point of it
may
have been, if indeed it had one.
Nor have I seen any 'soaps', Hollyoaks or otherwise, but I thought the
point of
those programmes was that they had no point - televised Bills and Moan, or
similar.
In any event, I was perhaps offering a view of what 'coming of age' should
mean,
rather than applying it to something that everyone does almost always in
an
uninteresting way. Using the definition I offered, you will note that not
everyone 'comes of age'.
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