‘Boyhood’: In the course of time – Reuters

poster for the film ‘Boyhood’ Universal Pictures

• Address: Richard Linklater
  Cast: Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater
  Production: USA, 2014. 163 min. Drama.

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One of the great successes of Boyhood , or one of the many successes of the film of Richard Linklater- resides in the rare ability to reflect the changing nature of existence. And although I said well may sound pretentious, Boyhood to nothing is. On the contrary, it is a time in which flows like river flows that famous film of the Presocratics humble; that river is always the same and, at the same time it is not. Boyhood captures the constant, subtle and contradictory change that leads over the years; and does so, moreover, with the chords of feeling righteous. No weepy nostalgia.

You could say that the film as a whole is the result of a pulse with time. Linklater, who already faced the same challenge in the trilogy that starts with Before Sunrise (1995), gets it again and this time in such a simple way surprising. At least no one had done so before: putting, with the camera on the side of the calendar; following characters in the course of time, and thus trapping the result of its passage.

Rolling over twelve years, which is the time period in which the film takes place. Rolling the same characters in the hands of the same performers, a couple of weeks each year. Movie magic, or rather the magic of director Linklater, occurs when the distant and fractional nature of such a shoot is seen as continuous and fluid.

Linklater wheel childhood a kid mischievous and inquisitive six-year-old Mason Jr, embodied by Ellar Coltrane and wheel until that boy becomes a young eighteen thoughtful and byline. Twelve years since. Everything changes in that time, the child and his family. And nothing really changes. Boyhood speaks of Album Negr or where would be the songs the Beatles wrote together. Linklater’s film is nonexistent and that fabulous album: impossible but real. Wonderfully magical. And mystery.