《时代周刊》：2014十大最佳电影

2.Boyhood

2.《少年时代》

In what might have been a gimmick but was really a stroke of genius, Richard Linklater began shootingBoyhoodwhen its leading actor, Ellar Coltrane, was a first-grader and each succeeding summer shot a new segment involving Coltrane’s Mason and his Texas family: mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette), father Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) and elder sister Samantha (the director’s daughter Lorelei). Mason’s evolving life has its difficulties but few extremities; it unfolds rather than exploding in reality-TV’s manufactured traumas. A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes,Boyhoodshimmers with unforced reality. To watch it is to page through a family album of folks you just met, yet feel you’ve known forever. This is life as most of us experience it, and which few movies document with such understated acuity. Embrace each moment, Linklater tells us, because it won’t come again — unless he is there to record it, shape it and turn it into an indelible movie.

这听起来像是耍花招，但是的确是神来之笔。编剧兼导演理查德·林克莱特历时12年拍摄此片，讲述了主人公梅森（艾拉·科尔特兰饰）从6岁到18岁的成长历程。艾拉从一年级起，每个暑假都会拍摄一段影片，包括他、姐姐和父母。主人公梅森的成长历程虽未大起大落，但困难时有发生。观看这部影片就像是你在翻阅一个你一见如故的家庭的影集。故事情节每个人都亲身经历过，但没有几部影片能如此敏锐地捕捉到这些。林克莱特用这部影片告诉我们：童年和青春一去不复返，除非像他那样精心记录下每个成长的时刻，拍摄成一部难忘的电影。