Depressingly accurate even today

I agree with the fact that it isn't necessarily a brilliant film and that it might be lacking a few things, but what I liked about this film was the painful accuracy of the events. I come from a middle-class family who saw nothing else apart from work and watching TV (not even holidays), and I've always had wanderlust and I took pleasure in art and other things which my family did never consider, just like Freddie and Julie. Don't even want to hear about getting married, pregnant and settled in one place for the rest of my life. And when you don't fit the local customs, the best and most reasonable thing to do is to leave that place, because you can't change people's mentalities or lifestyles, no matter how much you try. When Freddie begins telling his family about his passion for National Geographic and what Julie told him, he faces nothing but rejection and denial. This film provides an accurate insight into a perennial generation - the middle-class, entrapped by its own mentality and financial impossibilities. No matter the country, the time, the size of a family, the middle-class generation will always be there, waiting for a getaway anywhere in hope of a better, more liberated life.