Boyhood Movie Review
Ryan
American Lit
Mrs. Hudak
The movie is called Boyhood by Richard Linklater. The easiest sentence to summarize it is “A normal 6-year-old Texas boy grew to 18-year-old Texas boy.” Boyhood’s Facebook page conducted the movie as “The story of us”. I think the real major character is not the boy Mason; the real major character is “Time”. We can see that imprint of time; Mason’s electronic product, they went from using a clamshell phone to iPhone4; different videogame; President Bush to President Obama; different music; the car GTO to the new SUV. The most impressive thing is that Mason, the boy is really changing in these 12 years. You could feel that is totally different, because the director used 12 years to finish this movie; the director used the same boy when he was growing.
Mason was a cute boy, and became a little heavy boy,and finally he becomes a thin high school student with couple earrings. Mom Olivia, she was thin and became fat, after that she got thin again. She was studying and working; you can see wrinkles around her eyes. Olivia divorced twice, and got hurts in life. She loves her kids and gives them space. Mason’s sister Sam was also important in this movie. She was a very shy girl, and she became a girl whocould play with a lot of boys. Dad Ethan became a person that he hated the most when he was 20. He was a singer and he became an actuary. We can see that they are changing but they still have something similar. Form the beginning of the movie to the end, Mason is always sensitive and heavyhearted, Sam still feels proud of herself; mom still loves what she loves, hates what she hates; dad doesn’t restrict himself. We are always changing but we don’t change the real self.
The movie didn’t show us the time line or how old is Mason or something else.The director just cut those scenes and connect them.
This story is really normal, mason’s parents don’t get back together, they have their own life, no one in this movie has an ending, because this story is still continuing.
Young Mason asked his father “What does that mean?”, his father couldn’t understand his question and said “ What does what mean?”, Mason said “ Everything, what does everything mean?” and I forgot what his dad said, but I believe that a lot of people also has this question, and they are trying to find the answer. Mason was still finding the answer, 6 to 18.
Normal time, Mason doesn’t talk a lot. He feels words are stupid. He is the boy doesn’t like talk, but talks a lot in front of the girl he likes. He wants to share information. Same as Mason, I’m a person who doesn’t like to talk, but if I find someone is attractive for me I’d like to share almost everything to the person. We also find out that Mason is very proud to show his collections to his father. I think everyone has that kind of experience, show something that you are very proud of, and others can say it’s very cool or they like it or something that makes you feel good. We can see that Mason’s schoolmates terrified him, and he didn’t fight back. We can also see that Mason loves take photographs, and he starts focus on it. He finds himself, enjoys himself and this defines himself.
Someone says this movie is too boring; there are no highlights in the movie. Someone even think this movie is meaningless. I also want to ask, what is the purpose of a person’s life. People just born and die. But we have dreams, we want to go to a good college, find a person that we love the most. Maybe someone thinks it is also meaningless, but for me it’s not. A 3-hour movie, I feel it was a long movie, the movie is like everyone’s life normal and easy.
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