Boyhood embodies coming of age where the director Richard Linklater with Mason Junior, Olivia (Mason’s mother), Mason senior (Mason’s father and Olivia’s ex-husband), Samantha (Mason’s sister) builds an emotional saga which enumerates individual emotions and relationships. Linklater made film history by shooting the motion picture for 4-5 days (consistently) for the traverse of 12 years just to draw out the progression of time. Boyhood is an intimate movie which covers relationships between children and parents, adolescence, and child psychology, and further exemplifies the development of a six year old boy to an eighteen year old man, where the characters go through a series of emotional and physical changes, Mason’s voice drops, he grows taller, his parents grow older, you can feel the adolescence oozing out of the two …show more content…
The movie targets the attitude of parents towards their children and how their smallest decisions effects their children’s life and psychology more than anything. Further, the movie successfully brings out the theme of colonialism and the means of liberation, and how subjugation can result into something really productive, for Mason it helped spend time in his dark room or behind his camera. After a meta-analysis and several interviews with Ellar (Mason) , it was found out that in the span of those twelve years, Ellar had to go through similar ordeals. He was homeschooled against his wishes initially, as his parents wanted to keep him around and not to let him get exposed to the following stardom and consequently colonising him. Linklater gambled by opting to shoot the movie for 12 years, but it wasn’t possible to bring out the essence coming of age in any other way because of which Boyhood wonderfully captures the transformation of a boy to a