: Emma has described the film as "nothing less than child pornography". She reported that objecting to the filming resulted in being labeled "uptight" or a "bad daughter" by her father.
Growing is not nostalgic. Instead, it faces time head-on. The plant’s unruly spread evokes creativity that refuses to be pruned, even as it shows signs of wear. There is also an autobiographical thread: Rivers was a famously persistent womanizer, bon vivant, and father. Growing can be read as a self-portrait of appetite—for life, for art, for physical pleasure—tempered by the knowledge that all growth contains its own end. growing 1981 larry rivers