I think you are going into it a bit deep with Heze from the last video. He’s a teenager full of hormones whose been at school all day and then at extra curricular, he’s got home to find the house being taken over by a girly party that he’s clearly not invited to or considered to be involved in. He’s then had a camera shoved in his face and had his parents ‘tease’ him for being moody. He’s also probably dealing with hunger as we all know they don’t feed those kids properly and he looked like he was eating a small portion of slop.
I thought he was polite considering the circumstances, not telling Tim to F-off with the camera and also being very gentle with his baby sister who was climbing on him.
I didn’t see any bad behaviour from Heze, but I did see it from Tim and Ella, if he’s feeling a bit grumpy why do they feel the need to shove a camera in his face and for Ella to tickle him like he’s a toddler?
He did explain himself quite well…he’s been conditioned to take only football seriously in life, he doesn’t even know how to have fun, and every week is the same routine. He was basically spelling out the damage his parents have done to him. He can’t think about anything else without relating it back to football training.
I feel like Heze is screwed either way;
Either:
He makes it as a pro footballer, but his money is ‘managed’ by Tim. So his life as an adult won’t change significantly, he’ll just be obsessed with training but Tim will have a more expensive car, or
He gets dropped before going pro, and has nothing else to cling onto, so spirals into poor mental health, drink/drugs or even crime. I can see Tim being the type of father that would disown an adult child…if they did things he wasn’t happy with.
The mental pressure he is under even now must be huge. The financial future of the whole family basically relies on him getting resigned at the end of each season. Combine that with him never having been shown how to be a child, he’s essentially living his childhood with adult pressures. His need to have the football with him at all times is a result of being under that mental pressure.
I can’t imagine him being able to make age-appropriate friends. At a private school many of the others will be from educated families and career-focussed. At football he is the smallest child by far and looks like the runt of the litter. Outside of football chat he’s got nothing to say…he can’t talk about Minecraft or doctor who etc he probably comes across as being autistic to other kids due only having one topic of conversation. He also won’t mess around or be disruptive, which although seems like a positive trait of maturity, it’s a way to bond with other kids so a small amount of that is beneficial.
I wonder when the last time was that Heze properly laughed?