Boyhood: Directed by Richard Linklater, Starring: Eller Coltrane, Patricia Marquette, Ethan Hawke8/9/2014 I have decided not to write about TMNT. It as you could all assume is not a good movie and don't go see it. Go see this instead. Boyhood is the best movie I have ever seen. Okay I know that is rash, but it's the truth. Richard Linklater has crafted something more than a film here. He has crafted a life. Boyhood works because it is so close to you. It's a lovely and soothing experience that doesn't stop for two hours and 43 minutes. The film begins with Mason the boy looking into the sky. There is many things that he could be thinking as he looks up there but his face is saying something, It looks like he's considering something anticipating something. A journey maybe. What a journey he is about to embark on. Not any journey across the land or so but a journey through the ups and downs of what will be the next 12 years of his life. His mother running into problems he also has to deal with. His own troubles like his parents being divorced. and how he deals with them and yet the film doesn't like it really has a narrative. Mason picks up lessons in real flowing conversations with from his father (Ethan Hawke) and the people around him. He doesn't just see a girl and fall in love with her. He has to talk with girls and get to know them. This all works with great effectiveness because the whole thing is scripted and shot very well. The camera moves smoothly (including an impressive Steadicam shot) and the dialogue seems as if it is happening in reality rather than in a film. It flows that well. Though it would not flow so well if the acting was not up to the par that it is. Sure dialogue can be delivered but to be delivered with the feeling and believability that it is here is almost unheard of. It's all so effective I can't believe it. Patricia Arquatte is does Oscar caliber work as the mother and Ethan Hawke is back in good Before series acting mode here. Though the best acting is done by Eller Coltrane who plays Mason. Coltrane as a boy is great holding a sense of childlike wonders, but as he grows up the depth of his character increases and you start to care more and more for him. You don't realize this at first. There is a moment whenever Mason is driving to college and the song "Hero" by Family of the Year is playing. It's a lovely moment and you get very emotional because this little kid you have watched grow up like a son is going of to college. Go see this. It is the best movie of the year, and the best movie I have ever seen. It is life and, it's a good one. Boyhood gets a 10 out of 10 and is added to the best film roster on the About page.
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