This simple film requires very little thinking. Not much happens. As John Lennon said "Life is what happens while you're busy making plans." Richard Linklater filmed the characters, beginning in 2002, for a week every year for 12 years. The result is profound. And hard to walk away from. It is a time-lapse study of Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from toddler to awkward teen to handsome man. And he is indeed so awkward. This film is cinematic realism at its best. It is a Bildungsroman for modern cinema.
I have two observations: the parents all seem to feel sorry for themselves and there is a scene featuring a successful Olivia (Patricia Arquette) as college professor teaching B.F. Skinner and John Bowlby who espouses that human survival depends on falling in love. Now that's cool.
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