I can´t make up my mind about Boyhood. The fact that it was filmed over a twelve year period is a marvel in itself, but it doesn´t cover up the storyline´s lack of anticipation. In a way, Boyhood was like life: lots of things happened, but not to the dramatic extent that we´re used to see in the cinema. I kept waiting for something extreme to happen. Although many things happened, they were always expected.
One thing I really liked was that the protagonist was into photography. What a clever symbol: his passion is to capture moments in time, whereas the movie itself states how time cannot be frozen. And: although his life has been filled with moments he´d like to forget, he lives to capture the strangeness and beauty in everyday life.
The constant moving was clever: that way they didn´t have to keep locations intact.
Benita Kvinlaug 