Boyhood
The most ambitious movie ever filmed. Forget sequels and prequels and box office manipulators. Thank goodness for Boyhood.
From random school night Tuesdays playing video games, to high school graduations, I watched myself tonight. I'm not that much like Mason, and I've been lucky to not have as low of lows as Mason, but to witness progression like this was nostalgic, transformative, and unforgettable.
I've often heard people complain, "this movie has no idea where it wants to end up."
I'm glad I don't have to talk about this movie with those people anymore. Here's to hoping I never learn where I want to end up.
"But they could have at least done his first kiss, or the day he fell in love with photography."
Yeah, they could have. But this movie is about life. And if we let life be about those moments and only those moments, we're putting too much pressure on ourselves to get it perfect and letting all the moments in between slip by.
I watched this movie with my family, and while they liked it a lot, they all commented how they hated the ending. They thought it was cheesy.
I looked around while they each got up, said goodnight, and went to bed. "We don't seize the moments, the moments seize us."
That they do.