I saw the movie 'Boyhood' last night.
I can't quite get it out of my mind. Oh, that Richard Linklater has a way about making movies and telling stories that just grips my heart and leaves me a bit breathless and yearning. It didn't hurt that it was filmed mostly here in Austin, Texas. Linklater seemed to captured everything endearing about growing up in Texas! Do you know anything about 'Boyhood' and how he directed this movie? He made the movie over the span of 12 years using the same actors, including the star who in the beginning, is six years old.
This movie made me think about not only about my own five year old, and how fast it all skims by. That in 12.5 short years, she'll be 18, on the cusp of entering the rest of her life. And about just how short this all is. None of it is ours to keep, nor is it here to stay. We are always influx and on our path. Moving, aging, evolving. Going somewhere. Forever fleeting. Everyday, a little more innocence slips away. It's all so touching and so mindboggling and I suppose it is the jist of what makes us human. This ache in remembering.
Just as much as this movie plucked at my parenthood chords, 'Boyhood' triggered so much emotion about my own childhood. Because, of course, the two are always tangled up together for better or worse and we are always doing this part of our journey for the first time. Our present selves are forever synced in with our past and our beginnings. My childhood was akward and uneventful. It was worrisome and silly. It was ordinary and loving. It was so imperfect (as mostly everyone's is). Yet, it mattered, so much. The small moments add up.
Oh, this movie...go see it. Then, let's talk and talk and talk some more.
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