BOYHOOD

i cannot describe how wonderful and uniquely illuminating and interesting and poignant and funny and sad and bittersweet and scary and loving this movie is! well, that sort of describes life doesn't it?

and that's what the movie is about; life over a 12 year span involving the mother and father of a boy and a girl. But the amazing thing about this film is that it was actually filmed over 12 years! so we get to see aging and physical changes and  alterations in communication styles "for real" and not through costume or makeup.

Ethan Hawke (Mason, Sr. the dad) and Patricia Arquette (Olivia, the mom, though they are already divorced when the film starts) are simply marvelous in their roles; stunningly brilliant. They have 2 children, Mason, Jr. and Samantha (who happens to be the director's daughter).

And the story is about empty nests,  and growing old and moving on and getting divorced and divorced again, and making economic ends meet and adolescents getting interested in sex and drugs and deciding what the future will be and relationships between spouses and siblings and boyfriends and girlfriends and the rules one lives by and how those rules get put into your life.

Oh i could go on and on. Words do NOT express how magnificent this film is and how totally engrossing. The movie running time is almost 3 hours and i was disappointed when it ended.