Richard Liklater is known for his simple yet full of life movies, it's always about a group of friends or a couple or in this case an individual and he always succeeds because he somehow manages to drag into the film mostly with his realistic look at life it's just like magic you actually travel into the movie and you live the moment with the characters in the movie, you actually hang out with them smile for their jokes and cry for their losses. actually in Liklater's movies Dazed and Confused, the Before Trilogy, waking life and now this there's always that déja vu moment, because the characters experience the same stuff that i as a viewer experienced when i was in their position whether it's the last day in school or the girl i met once in a train or things i used to do as a teenager. and let's not forget his philosophical touch which adds more depth to the movie, speaking of depth i think Boyhood is one of the deepest movies i have ever seen, it follows this kid as he grows up to become an adult in such a unique way never depicted on film since the dawn of filmmaking , we don't need to go through the process of explaining the making of this movie because i'm sure that everyone that visits this page is aware of it. but is this movie just about this kid growing up? no it is not. it is actually a close look at society in that period of time (the 90s in this case) through the eyes of a very normal kid, who is by the way someone that you might even never knew if he was in the same school with you, he is not cool and sexy and stuff but he is however not dumb as most of the kids born in this generation (no offense). one of the reasons this movie is brilliant is how realistic it is, being born in the 90s i shared a lot of the stuff this kid goes through in this movie and yes Linklater got it right from high-school to video games to music to cinema and even politics. I read in this movie's message boards that some people didn't like the movie because of the main character as he is just not that interesting and he didn't really have a sense of humor and that kind of crap but as i said above this is the story of a very normal boy and i believe not everyone was a Ferris Bueller when he was young but somehow it matters for some people if the main character is cool or not heck they judge the movie based on that but does it really matters, why can't you guys just take it for what it is this is a story of a specific kid let's assume Richard Linklater chose a boy randomly and unfortunately he picked up Mason, so really get over it if you really think that of this movie do the world a favor don't ever tell anyone on IMDb your opinion about movies anymore. in fact one of the things i liked about the movie is Mason Jr, he had a unique point of view about everything and he was an artist, and as he grows up we see him making is own unique personality by learning from his past mistakes and standing up for what he believes in. another point i wanted to make before i finish my review is the cinematography, i mean when the events are taking place in the 90s the movie looked from the 90s the colors the camera angles the lightening in fact it reminded me of his movie TAPE but by the time we reach the 2000s it simply changes and it's now a movie from that period of time, it gave this movie a sense of time because apart from Mason's aging the movie doesn't really give you a heads up to weather we are advancing in time. Finally, this is a well executed movie full of nostalgia, it drags you inside like other Linklater movies only this time is very special, the directing is brilliant the acting is top notch and the dialog is very real, so if you haven't seen it what are you waiting for?
