The young actor who plays the lead was a guest on Jimmy Fallon Monday night, and he mentioned the movie being “heart-wrenching.”
Can anyone who has seen it tell me what he’s referring to?
Thanks!
I’ve just created a Kickstarter project. It’s to prevent HeyHomie from knowing the plot of Boyhood for the next 12 years. People have already pledged $2,400,000 to the project. I’ll use the money to make sure that no one tells HeyHomie the plot of the film. Not in conversation, not in print, not by phone, not by E-mail, not by Twitter, etc. There will be people following him around (in person and online) for the next 12 years making sure that no one communicates the plot to him for these 12 years. HeyHomie, if someone seems to tell you the plot, it’s because they’re working for us and actually givng the wrong plot. If it took 12 years to make the film, it should take 12 years for HeyHomie to learn it.
Picture Slingblade stretched over 12 years, but Doyles Hargraves is an old woman. And then it ends.
He grows up. If that isn’t heartbreaking, I don’t know what is.
Serious post: pretty much this. The director didn’t want to make a movie about big, life changing events, so there’s not much to spoil. It’s about the small, fleeting moments you remember from childhood – maybe mundane in isolation (a fight with your sister, a dinner with your real father, moments with your mothers various boyfriends, etc) – but significant and profound when accumulated. It’s heartwrenching because you can see yourself in the film – your own life, and the helpless feeling of growing old and not being able to hang onto anything.
Take down those short trousers and bend over.
Done!
As others have said, there’s really nothing to spoil; it sounds like a cop-out, but you really have to see it to get the “heart-wrenching” effect. I could tell you what happens scene-by-scene, but you still wouldn’t get a real sense of why it works.