The overall feel of the film is very similar to "Yi Yi".

Raleigh 2022-04-20 09:01:14

It seems difficult to watch this kind of straightforward, no mainline, no climax movie without patience, compressing the family's more than ten years into a three-hour movie, and directly unfolding the growth process of a little boy. The most awesome thing about this film is that the director really spent 12 years to shoot the real character growth. If you are patient, you can experience the traces of the years in detail.
Time is undoubtedly the theme of this film. Everyone looks back on the past and feels that time is like an arrow, but time is constant, and grasping time is a false proposition. Those who try to grasp time are ultimately grasped by time.

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  • Linnie 2021-10-20 19:01:39

    Very general. Apart from that time gimmick, there is nothing extraordinary. Of course, a movie with such a gimmick may be enough.

  • Rodolfo 2021-10-20 19:01:39

    Although the process is not ugly, but with the gimmick of continuous shooting for 12 years, it can only show a running account.

Boyhood quotes

  • Dad: [frustrated with the monosyllabic answers Mason Jr. and Samantha are giving him] No, no, no. I'm not gonna be *that* guy. You know, the "biological father, who I see on the weekends, and I make small talk with him while he drives me places and buys me shit." No.

    Samantha: Dad, these questions are kind of hard to answer.

    Dad: What's so hard to answer about "what sculpture are you making"?

    Samantha: It's abstract!

  • Dad: Is she cute?

    Mason: Yeah.

    Dad: All right, well, here's what you do, all right, first off you gotta ask a girl a lot of questions, then you have to listen to the answers, actually be interested in her, all right, If you can do those things, you'll be light years ahead of all the other guys.