BOYHOOD (2014)

Boyhood (2014)

Directed by: Richard Linklater
Written by: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ellar Coltrane - Patricia Arquette - Ethan Hawke
Duration: 165 minutes
Rating: Restricted

Are elves for real? Do we really seize the moment or does the moment seize us?! Do our mothers have to love us and hang on to us like a piece of them, or simply be like lions and tigers and rush us out of their safety and protection to save the real world? What is real in this world nowadays your Facebook and cyber accounts or is it simply the actual person that walks the streets unaware of the life around us…?

12 years in the making summed up in less than 3 hours, Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette are delightful, but it is the growing up of our little Masson Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) that is most interesting, and while you grow up with a kid who wants to sharpen stones all the way through his teenage years… you see life as we live it today… you see the life in his eyes, through his sisters eyes, the parents, the friends, the families, the director and most importantly you as a viewer will be cornered into tuning yourself to decide which life to lead….

A road film, a drama, a script that plays like a true story, like Perks of Being a Wallflower a few years back, this journey is not only visual and dialogue driven the music in this film is sensational, be it the soundtrack to our lives, from the Beatles to Coldplay and all the way to Arcade Fire… or the lyrical renditions the cast goes through, the music choice is impeccable and could easily be used as a compass to guide us through the life line of the film…

Not too many words about BOYHOOD in the media today, not too many people are talking about it, yet… but this is a film worth visiting it will have you hooked from opening to end… it will leave you with a million questions in the back of your head from the moment the film fades out, till the rest of your living days…

Start sharing the love, cause without love we cease to exist… 

This was a gamble worth making… thanks to the choices of Director/Writer Richard Linklater (Creator of the Sun talk trilogy, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, After Midnight) who delivers a Terrence Malick/ Jim Jarmusch film merged into one…

Metacritic: 100/100
Daffy Meter: 10/10 (Boyhood is Richard Linklater's Odyssey to Life...)