Boyhood

shes teaching psychology, about parent-child dynamic to indicate to the audience she believes in her responsibilities, even though she is aware she doesn’t love single parenthood. I think this is the greatest, believable acting work of a mother, in general. She appears to us as a human being, and somebody who is frustrated with the idea of “the best she can do.” Are all mothers like this, no. But it certainly is showing an example of one who tries.