Comments on: ‘Boyhood’ is a perfect distillation of Richard Linklater’s filmmaking https://www.scene-stealers.com/reviews/print-reviews/boyhood-movie-review/ Movie Reviews That Rock Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:55:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: warren-j https://www.scene-stealers.com/reviews/print-reviews/boyhood-movie-review/#comment-91960 Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:55:41 +0000 http://www.scene-stealers.com/?p=38648#comment-91960 Great work, Trey – you nailed it. I just saw this last night, and I couldn’t agree with your points more.

]]> By: Trey Hock https://www.scene-stealers.com/reviews/print-reviews/boyhood-movie-review/#comment-88357 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 17:27:48 +0000 http://www.scene-stealers.com/?p=38648#comment-88357 In reply to jessica maria.

Jessica,

Awesome comment. I totally agree with you about the specific/universality of his films. I’m ready to watch it again.

]]> By: jessica maria https://www.scene-stealers.com/reviews/print-reviews/boyhood-movie-review/#comment-88274 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:19:37 +0000 http://www.scene-stealers.com/?p=38648#comment-88274 Great review, Trey. I loved this movie so much and I think I love Linklater films because they beg for reflection and there’s no definitive answer or opinion, as you wrote. Especially with the Before… films in which everybody watches those two distinct characters (they’re not universal, but why do they feel like they are sometimes? Just like Mason…) and comes out with different opinions on them though none are wrong. I watched Before Midnight with my husband a few months ago and kept stopping and starting the movie to discuss what was happening between them, and maybe about our own marriage, too. Even though we’ve never been to Greece and both of us are American and we don’t have children and… well, we still understand. Boyhood felt similar, in that I didn’t grow up a boy in Texas with divorced parents, but Linklater put something up on that screen that I recognized, that I could understand in my own experience growing up.

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