2014 Directed by Richard Linklater
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Ellar Coltrane Patricia Arquette Ethan Hawke Lorelei Linklater Libby Villari Marco Perella Brad Hawkins Jamie Howard Andrew Villarreal Jenni Tooley Zoe Graham Charlie Sexton Elijah Smith Steven Chester Prince Bonnie Cross Sydney Orta Shane Graham Tess Allen Ryan Power Sharee Fowler Mark Finn Byron Jenkins Holly Moore David Blackwell Barbara Chisholm Matthew Martinez-Arndt Cassidy Johnson Cambell Westmoreland Jennifer Griffin Show All…
Wayne Bell Tom Hammond Justin Hennard Ethan Andrus Evan Dunivan Susan Fitz-Simon Miles Foster-Greenwood
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After finishing Boyhood and slowly gathering my thoughts on it I did what I usually do, fly over to Letterboxd to jot those thoughts down before they escape me. What I wasn't prepared for was what happened when I saw that poster. It was a slap in the face, a jarring reminder that I had just spent twelve years with someone.
I think it's easy to not look beyond this film's ambitious conception and even write it off as a non-eventful gimmick. There is no real plot, there are no grand character arcs, no dramatic tension. It lacks a narrative flow and has more scope than focus, it ambles on throughout its running time, meandering along the trivial and occasionally…
It is not surprising that so many people identify closely with Boyhood. It hits all the hallmarks of growing up. There is the promise made years ago that the parent forgot but the child did not. There is the incessant fighting between siblings that is forgotten two minutes later, as well as the faking of who is to blame for the fight when the shouts of "MOM!" have been acknowledged. There is the change in address, school and friends, for which parents are always blamed and children's protests are always ignored. There is the period where children discover that they can exert some control by dressing how they like or coming in late, anything that can be taken as a…
i just... i cant believe they spent 12 years making this goddamn movie only for mason to end up becoming a boring stoner kid
Wow! I never suspected that big twist where the kid grew up to be mediocre at acting.
A miserable experience that thinks it's way more profound than it actually is. It has nothing to say and its only value as a film comes from the novelty of its gimmick. Watch Lady Bird or The Florida Project instead.
Part of jvince's Top 200 Films of All-Time
Part of jvince's Top Ten Films of 2014
What's It About?: Growing up.
Who's In it?: Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, and Lorelei Linklater.
The Good: The kids. The cast. The characters. The direction. The idea. The writing. The music. The 35mm. The laughs. The pathos. The holy-shit-that's-my-life moments. Everything.
The Bad: It's a 3-hour film, but I wish it went on forever.
What Did I Learn?: I learned to feel again. I was inspired again. This seals it—Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke are now my favorite director-actor duo. Thank you for making this wonderful film. (Also, I never imagined I'd love anything with freaking Soulja Boy in it, but damn,…
so you're telling me linklater spent 12 years of his life documenting some pretentious kid's emo phase
Boyhood, or An Excruciatingly Overlong Celebration of Suburban Mediocrity, is an aimless and outwardly ambitionless film, much like its central character, whose name doesn’t matter because he always remains a stranger to us anyway. It celebrates the coming-of-age of a perfectly normal boy who, by the end of the film, looks ready to grow into yet another struggler. Okay.
Initially, Mason’s passivity seems interesting, if only because his silence seems to promise maturity and perhaps even youthful wisdom. But when he finally begins to talk, all you can do is cringe and pray for his silences to return. He is so astonishingly banal that you feel somehow cheated that you’ve been duped into watching his story instead of somebody else’s.…
