Saw the movie Boyhood... Its nominated for 6 Oscars..The movie was shot over many years depicting a family growing up... Cool... THATS IT!!! The Boyhood-experience is the equivalent of your experience waiting in line at the supermarket. Yes, this is the real life Linklater (the Director) presents us. NOTHING HAPPENS IN THIS MOVIE! Nothing, no story, no interesting characters, just ordinary situations from real life. Of course, there are films in which nothing or very little happens and they can be great (Tarkovskys Mirror, Antonionis Lavventura or Tarrs The Turin Horse come to mind), but here, to praise Boyhood as a masterpiece is actually a slap in the face of all those directors who put a real effort into creating works of art that have real value. Boyhood is in fact an anti-film in the sense that it stands against everything film should be - be it an artistic masterpiece or just an entertaining, fun movie. The film is neither a work of art nor entertaining. In that regard it can be called a non-film. It celebrates its own non-existence and drowns in its nihilism. I doubt this was Linklaters intention but it certainly is the result of what he created! Its nothing but a re-enactment of memories, a collection of unmeaning scenes we may or may not know from our own lives (bowling, playing video games, reading Harry Potter etc.). I think it is only fair to ask: What is the point? I saw this film having high hopes and (having read all the raving reviews) expecting a masterpiece from Richard Linklater, the director of the great Waking Life. Nothing truly happens and takes 3 hours to tell us that!! At present, I feel like the kid in the Emperors New Clothes story screaming BUT HE IS NAKED & AND HAS NO CLOTHES ON!!! ... I mean come on... You put 12 years into this ...SAY SOMETHING!!!
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:46:55 +0000
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