Boyhood
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Spoiler alert: no meteor or sharkstorm falls from the skies, neither gods nor demons, vampires or zombies wage war over the fate of humankind, no one is revealed as a superhero or supervillain, and no one is injected with a mysterious superdrug. In fact, there's not so much as an unexpected death or an ambulance call to rush someone to the hospital. The most immediate physical threat comes from alcoholic stepfathers.All that happens is that a boy and a girl, over a span of 2¾ hours (which will, of course, seem like real time to all parents), grow to young adulthood while their parents try consistently and succeed intermittently to give them useful guidance on that journey. This utterly uneventful film, in which nothing happens but life, may be the most truthful "fiction" film I've ever seen; it's certainly one of the best I'll see this year.
Trailer
- The Trip to Italy--Seriously? If Michael Winterbottom makes The Trip to West Central Iowa with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, I'm in.
1 comment:
I found it really interesting that the adults were on a common trajectory, but looming larger than that was Mason's trajectory--no question that he is just at the start of theirs, but he is young--it's about him--so the others fade into the background. Which, of course, is what youth is like. A lovely film.
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