Richard Linklater has a real fascination with using cinema
to capture life’s little moments as they happen. This will come as zero shock
to those who witnessed the media hypestorm surrounding Boyhood a few years
back, but a lot of his oeuvre shows this in one way or another. Whether
it’s musing on bygone days, focusing on a single character’s need to break out
of those bygone days, or literally following the same characters/cast over
several in-real-time years to bridge reality and cinema closer, it’s an aesthetic
that has led to some great work. With his latest, though, I find myself
questioning whether this particular moment was worth making holy.
