Boyhood
A pretty great achievement from a bold idea of filming a fictional film over time to keep the natural aging of the characters authentic. And “authentic” is the word du jour for this film. All Linklater’s efforts are put into making this as realistic and genuine of a look inside the life of a boy growing through his teen years as possible. And he is very successful, so much so that when Mason got to his annoying, amateur-philosopher teenager stage, it was so on point I was embarrassed for knowing I was once probably like that.
This film sets out to do what it does brilliantly. I suppose the only reason I personally wouldn’t consider it a masterpiece is because what it does isn’t overly compelling to me. Its meandering and goes on a little long, and it kept feeling like something was going to happen in a lot of scenes and then it just doesn’t. This is fine, because like I said its goal of being a “slice of life” works very well and I think it will connect with a lot of people.
8/10
Ian's Movie Reviews 
Loved this movie so very much so. As is the case with most Linklater films. Good review Ian.
Dan O. - January 19, 2015 at 11:42 am |
I think I feel the same way you do – that it was actually a bit boring, but that’s oddly what I admired about it, that it didn’t insert false ‘plot’, it emulated a real family life that soemtimes felt more like a documentary.
Jay - January 23, 2015 at 6:44 am |
Yeah, fake plot isn’t what I wanted either. But I suppose it just really felt like it was going out of its way to skip over milestones in the kids life, but I suppose there were some.
ianthecool - January 24, 2015 at 9:38 am |