Boyhood Film Analysis

Have you been searching for an adventure filled, slapstick comedy, that your family and friends will love? If so, the movie "Tommy Boy" is the movie to watch. The movie "Tommy Boy" written by Terry and Bonnie Turner, is a humorous movie that shows ambition, along with a strong friendship throughout the film that will have everyone laughing. Throughout the movie, Tommy Calahan, a dimwitted and clumsy man, goes through various ups and downs as he tries to succeed in taking over his father's auto-part business. As he is put to the test to find business owners who will purchase products, to keep his father's business alive, he finds himself in amusing, yet ironic situations. Better yet, Tommy's father's tight wound assistant Richard, goes along with Tommy on an entertaining road trip to different businesses, to try to save the Calahan name (Michaels & Segal, 1995).

Individuals venturing into new transitions could confront obstacles but may also gain significant rewards. Barriers often obstruct the achievement of goals which bring about growth and change within oneself and their surroundings. Billy Elliot is a film set in an English town of Evirngton, England during the 1985 mining strikes. The film depicts a young boy facing the challenge of overcoming traditional gender stereotypes to pursue his love for ballet. Billy faces extreme adversity from his family and community that hold traditional values and beliefs. The process of transitioning into a new phase of life may be confronting but ultimately lead to new understandings of self and others. Stephen Aldry’s Billy Elliot film epitomizes this idea as Billy tries to pursue his passion for dancing in 1980’s England. The obstacles he faces throughout his transition shape his journey throughout the text. Similarly, Clint Eastwood’s novel ‘American sniper’ explores how transitions can shape an individual and their relationships with others around them, Where Kyle returns from his first deployment and reunites with Taya Kyle. Taya immediately notices that her husband has changed, war has made him moodier and angrier. Yet this transition is yet to be complete.

From a legal standpoint, one wonders whether there might be an issue with Moselle’s introduction to the boys of The Wolfpack. As the moment when she chased them down on the street, most of them were technically minors, and the youngest was only eleven years old (Shone 2015). They were out on the street without their parents, and Moselle, as a thirty year old adult accosts them because she finds them strange and unusual. She then begins to develop this relationship with them, bonding over their shared love of movies, teaching them to refine their filming techniques, filming and photographing them as subjects. One has to wonder whether the boys told their parents about this budding relationship, or whether she ever asked permission from them

Overall, I believe “Loving” was a fantastic movie. I enjoyed watching it, and it was fascinating throughout. I was very interested to learn the story behind Richard and Mildred Loving and the pivotal struggle they had to face in their lives.

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The movie American Teen is a documentary that was released in 2008. The documentary is about seniors in high school in Warsaw, Indiana. The purpose of the documentary is to focus on small cliques that develop in high school. Out of the cliques, Hannah Bailey became a person of interest. Hannah is an eighteen year old female that attends Warsaw high school. The town of Warsaw is mostly white, middle class, and Christian. Hannah is seen as the rebel or free spirit of the high school. She has a best friend named Clark and lives with her grandmother. Hannah’s mother was diagnosed with manic depression and is unable to care of her, and her father is a businessman in Ohio.

As a youthful child, I was prone to think that my family had to be the only one with obstacles, although, this changed dramatically after I watched the movie Parenthood. Because they are amazing at withholding his or her family problems, or at least they think they are, people put up a barrier to the outside world trying to show everyone how they are impeccable. The movie Parenthood really opens up our minds and proves to the frauds that faking perfection in life is not necessary. Besides, you cannot pick your family. They are your personal burden, and different personalities handle this responsibility individually.

In “Boyhood”, the events are presented in sequential order. Despite being in chronological order, the audience does not have access to the moments in Mason’s daily life. This eliminates the idea the piece being a direct illusion of reality, since the mundane moments from his life are not available for viewing. The audience is unaware of what chores he must do at home and has little to no insight about the smaller moments in the relationship with his family. Most of the interactions the main character has with the secondary and minor characters take place during moment of dramatic change. The first abusive stepfather is revealed to the viewer in the same way it is to Mason. The shot starts as slow reveal that moves around the

A white officers first day on the job with a black senior trainer. The trainer has hidden sides that are eventually revealed to be a crooked cop.

Antoine, Celine, Jesse, and Mason: The Origins of the Characters Who Grow Alongside Us This year the film Boyhood (2014) hit the box office and has quickly become favored by critics and audiences alike. Richard Linklater’s concept for a film that took 12 years to make had been unimaginable to people who had heard whisperings of it until getting the chance to actually see it clips from it. Why is it so extraordinary? It follows a young boy year by year as he (and the actor) age from 6 to 18, telling a story of what it’s like to grow up and also what it means to be a parent. The longevity of the project is astounding and sets the movie apart from anything else that has been released in previous years.

The second Sudanese Civil War in Sudan forced millions of innocent people to flee their homes and families in search for safety. Doing so, many got displaced or killed because of starvation, genocidal murder and bomb raids. Those who survived were sent to a refugee camp in Kenya and some - the “lost boys”- a name given by aid workers at the camp, had the fortune to be sent by the United States to America to start a new life. Among these were Panther Bior, John Bul Dau, and Daniel Abol Pach, whose life was documented in God Grew Tired of Us. Furthermore, the documentary explores the lives of the Lost Boys of Sudan and their journey as they learn to adapt to the American Life, a life much better and advanced than the oppressed life they lived. The directors, Christopher Dillon Quinn and Tommy Walker, aim to show how the boys cope with learning new customs, rules, trying to keep a job, amongst other things, all while doing the best they can to stay rooted in their culture and help those they left behind in the refugee camp. With actual footage and relatable characters, the film sets a tone that evokes sympathy to viewers, thus relaying a need of action and validating his message of Americans’ forgetfulness and ignorance to their blessings.

Déjà vu is a strong sensation of feeling as if you have already lived certain events but are experiencing them again. Déjà vu can be strange and confusing, but it also can be joyful like the 2014 drama film Boyhood. Boyhood was nominated for a total of 6 Oscars and was directed by Richard Linklater. Boyhood stars Ellar Coltrane as Mason, a boy who lives with his mom (Patricia Arquette) and his older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater). The story is told through Mason’s eyes as he grows up and faces the similar challenges that we all had to face growing up. Whether it be the struggle of moving to a new home, coping with divorce, or dealing with his annoying sister, Boyhood has something that everyone can relate to.

The Breakfast Club is an 80’s teen classic film that brings out the meaning of knowing one another and realizing that each student has a story about themselves that leaves a different impression on them than the title they were given by other people. The Breakfast Club is a stereotypical film that depicts the flaws of five students serving detention on a Saturday. The Breakfast Club really captures the value of realism and leaves a huge impression on students who go through the same similarities and have the urge to be entitled to the names that classify who they show to be. A phenomenal film that can be appreciated by the audience is The Breakfast Club because the acting, plot, and the cinematography makes the film a relatable experience.

In 2014, the movie Jersey Boys was released in the United States. Jersey Boys was based off of the Tony Award winning jukebox musical, also called Jersey Boys. The movie was produced by Clint Eastwood.

Girl, Interrupted follows Susanna Kaysen 18 month experience in a mental hospital. Transition. Despite her privilege as a white, upper-middle class girl from a high school with a high college acceptance rate in the 60s, her lax attitude about the future isolates her from her peers. Transition. The beginning of the film flashes back to her stomach being pumped after she chased sleeping pills with vodka, most likely after her affair with her married English teacher. After her failed suicide attempt, her therapist suggests that she needs proper rest at Claymoore, a nearby mental institution. Although initially shocked and reluctant, she signs herself into a place where she encounters several other patients, including the rebellious, sociopath Lisa. Unlike Susanna, Lisa embraces her label as a sociopath, and Lisa’s charm and free spirit, despite her environment, gave Susanna someone to emulate. Their misadventures begin with spitting out daily medication, behaving combatively during resisting therapy, and climaxes with their escape attempt.