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'The Place Beyond the Pines' instantly blew me away when I first saw it over a decade ago. I'm more than glad to say that it ABSOLUTELY holds up. I bought this on DVD years ago and I was curious if my taste or opinion on the movie changed over time but I still very much like it as much as the first day I ever seen it. There's something pretty satisfying about that.

There's so many lessons, ideas etc. that one can take from this movie so I'm just going to do what I normally do and that is ramble.

I feel like this movie is about family, fatherhood, anger, choices I guess it's simply about life. The domino effect of the choices we make very day, are often a lot more important than we care to realize or think about. Tough.

The grace and effortlessness of this movie always blows my mind. It's seriously a trilogy in a single film, and it works. Before I set out to write on this movie I literally thought to myself 'this movie is actually a modern day epic' and then I see on Wikipedia that it's literally considered an epic crime drama.

The movie is so cyclical that it literally feels magical, fantasy like. If I were to break down every way this is the case, I'd be writing all day.

I grew up in a really strange, often stressful, chaotic, confusing household. If you want to call it a household. I did have some fantastic times mixed in, but it was extremely bipolar, let's just put it that way. No father for me growing up and so the whole fatherhood angle of this film seriously stands out for me. I wasn't a father when I first saw this, and so this movie only grew more profound now that I am.

I really feel like I understand these two dudes, I was these two dudes in many ways.

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Avery was actually a really complex dude and I kind of understood him a lot better in this more recent watch. AJ was also a more interesting character as well. I think their relationship will become strong. Once Avery said sorry to Jason, it seems like a weight was lifted off everyone's shoulders, including Jason of course.

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When it comes to Jason I'm glad that he got a chance to learn a bit about his dad, I think it's plausible that he'll return and embrace Kofi one day as well. Not like there was ever a problem between the two but yeah.

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Growing up in Pennsylvania, the geography in New York is pretty much identical and this only made the film more relatable to me.

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Everything about this movie was perfect even the soundtrack. I think this movie will age like fine wine. I think one day this film will even be looked at as like a historical piece if that makes sense. I'm probably wording that wrong but I think it's understandable. 90's kids growing up into the early 2010's etc.

I like all the characters, all the actors and actresses were on point.

TOO GOOD. 9.8/10

Great scene.