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Topic	The SephG Top 250 [movies] - Topic II: the top 75
Nelson_Mandela 07/09/19 2:24:43 PM #183:	#11. Boyhood https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Boyhood_%282014%29.png Dir: Richard Linklater Genre: Drama, Coming of Age Year: 2014 *SephG Superlative: The greatest movie of the 2010s* Boyhood absolutely destroyed me when it came out--to the point where I am not sure if I can ever watch it again. It's not a sad or tragic film, nor is it particularly emotional from a character or story perspective. What really made this movie shake me to the core is how real it felt. It was almost as if someone showed me a condensed film of my own adolescence, and nothing moved me in the same way as my first viewing. I am a few years older than the main subject in Boyhood (I think I would actually be just above his sister's age), but the zeitgeist captured in each year throughout his youth was still just about the same as it was for me. Everything from the music and the cultural events to the life events (friendships, moving houses, getting a job, etc.) made me flash back to my own recollections and memories of those things that I lived through. The way this movie was filmed over the course of 12 years has been beaten to death, but it's truly what gives Boyhood this uncanny ability to capture those moments in life and the world. Major props to Linklater and his editor on this one, because they were remarkably able to keep in those scenes that became even more relevant today (Ethan Hawke talking about Clemens and Pettitte going to the HOF years before they were busted for PEDs is a priceless example). Some criticisms of Boyhood have emerged recently that I'd like to put to rest. The first being that there's no real "story" to it, to which I will roll my eyes and ask if they have ever even seen a Linklater film. There doesn't need to be a plot. Life doesn't have a story most of the time, and the expressed point of this movie was to show a slice of someone's life. And that leads to the second critique, which is that the protagonist grew up to be an awful pretentious douche. But isn't every college freshman a pretentious douche? Were we supposed to believe that he grew up and learned everything there was to learn and is now a dude you'd want to hang out with? It's indicative of the realism once again--and I frankly love the choice. Maybe I will watch this movie again one day. Maybe I can look back on it and just enjoy it as a movie and that's all. But as it stands right now, Boyhood was more than a movie. It was a powerful reflection of my own life--and an experience that I've never had with a film before. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso <cite>Nelson_Mandela posted [p:924456301] in The SephG ... [t:77811548]...</cite> <quote>#11. Boyhood https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Boyhood_%282014%29.png Dir: Richard Linklater Genre: Drama, Coming of Age Year: 2014 SephG Superlative: The greatest movie of the 2010s Boyhood absolutely destroyed me when it came out--to the point where I am not sure if I can ever watch it again. It's not a sad or tragic film, nor is it particularly emotional from a character or story perspective. What really made this movie shake me to the core is how real it felt. It was almost as if someone showed me a condensed film of my own adolescence, and nothing moved me in the same way as my first viewing. I am a few years older than the main subject in Boyhood (I think I would actually be just above his sister's age), but the zeitgeist captured in each year throughout his youth was still just about the same as it was for me. Everything from the music and the cultural events to the life events (friendships, moving houses, getting a job, etc.) made me flash back to my own recollections and memories of those things that I lived through. The way this movie was filmed over the course of 12 years has been beaten to death, but it's truly what gives Boyhood this uncanny ability to capture those moments in life and the world. Major props to Linklater and his editor on this one, because they were remarkably able to keep in those scenes that became even more relevant today (Ethan Hawke talking about Clemens and Pettitte going to the HOF years before they were busted for PEDs is a priceless example). Some criticisms of Boyhood have emerged recently that I'd like to put to rest. The first being that there's no real "story" to it, to which I will roll my eyes and ask if they have ever even seen a Linklater film. There doesn't need to be a plot. Life doesn't have a story most of the time, and the expressed point of this movie was to show a slice of someone's life. And that leads to the second critique, which is that the protagonist grew up to be an awful pretentious douche. But isn't every college freshman a pretentious douche? Were we supposed to believe that he grew up and learned everything there was to learn and is now a dude you'd want to hang out with? It's indicative of the realism once again--and I frankly love the choice. Maybe I will watch this movie again one day. Maybe I can look back on it and just enjoy it as a movie and that's all. But as it stands right now, Boyhood was more than a movie. It was a powerful reflection of my own life--and an experience that I've never had with a film before. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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