Boyhood (film)

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I judge a piece of art by its ability to make me think. Boyhood has done just that. This film has made me consider my own mortality, growing up, life, experience, the greater meaning, is there one?
All these topics we spend our lives living and considering. What is it all about? What is the next step?

We spend so much of our youth projecting ideas, fascinations, hopes and possibilities into the future. What we get is never quite so fanciful, because its real and is tied to reality, to the moment. But then, sometimes things occur that are greater than we could ever have imagined.

Those moments that transcend all others.

We are greedy, and we never get enough of them, but those are the moments we live for.
The moments of love, awe, of wonder. The moments where all the mundane drudgery of daily life is hidden by the bright glimmering experience of emotion, excitement and love.

Thank you, Richard Linklater, for creating a story, a movie, that expresses the universal human experience so clearly that it gave me this moment of inspiration. Twelve years in the making, it is really quite an achievement.

 

 

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