成长

美国独立电影，讲述了一个黑人小孩在一天的从黄昏到晚上的短短几个小时里，为给生病的祖母买药，在去往药店的路上，穿过一些复杂的街区时所遭遇的事情，这些事情使天真的小孩成长了很多。

该片曾入选多个国际电影节并获奖，现已在美国和欧洲发行。

From emerging storyteller, Aaron Greer, comes a thought-provoking story about a family's struggle to raise a child in the inner city, where some get lost and some get grown.

Twelve year-old Eric lives with his mother Rolanda and father Darryl in a working class neighborhood. Darryl drives a city bus second shift. Rolanda, who is very pregnant and not feeling well, takes care of her ailing mother who lives with them.

The story begins when Rolanda discovers that she has forgotten to fill the prescription for her mother’s new diabetes medicine. Someone must make the long walk through the neighborhood to the pharmacy that evening, and the only one who can is Eric.

With his granny’s prescription, insurance card and $22 stuffed in his sock, Eric starts out on what appears to be a simple errand. Along the way things become unexpectedly complicated, as he finds himself contending with the thoughtless demands that adults make of children and with his friends' risky behaviors.

As night falls we watch Eric struggle to complete his responsibility by taking actions that seem logical to a good kid on the threshold of adulthood, but which will in fact bring him to the brink of danger. Meanwhile his mother waits, worries and questions her decision to send young Eric alone through the darkening city streets."Gettin' Grown"... Directed by University of Alabama Professor Aaron Greer, shot in his native Milwaukee, "Gettin' Grown" is not only a logistically simple and involving story, but also an honest allegory for childhood; or rather, the end of childhood. It chronicles the journey of young Eric, the day before his twelfth birthday. He has been sent across town to fill a prescription for his grandmother, and along the way, he encounters the pratfalls and temptations of urban life and community. The film never exploits or overexposes, but rather shows urban life at face value. Eric's choices are broad strokes of everyday life; the burden of community care, prioritizing family and society, and most of all, economy. Fulfilling economical cycles is the main tenant of adulthood in the world of "Gettin' Grown": that is, once the idea of limited resources is realized, one's ability to grow manifests itself completely.

The acting Greer pulls out of his cast is extremely natural and organic, and his allowance of improvisation perfectly suits the mood and ambiance of Eric's universe. Coupled with this improvisational dialogue comes improvisational cinematography. Like Spielberg's "War Of The Worlds" and Joe Carnaharn's "Narc", the ever-nervous, ever eye-level documentarian's camera makes the world of the film fully realized and organic. We never doubt for a second that there is a fully fleshed-out universe outside edges of the frame.

The overwhelming element of "Gettin' Grown" is maturity; never do emotions or situations become overblown or unnatural. Greer uses restraint and emotional steadiness as intelligently as the most detached European directors. His film is the perfect example of a piece that is accessible to both children and adults, on simultaneously similar and different levels.

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