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So Richard Linklater has made a new movie and it took him 12 years to complete it because he followed the same characters/actors as they aged over the years. A very innovative technique. Here's what the Atlantic's film critic has to say about this innovative movie:
Why do liberals have to politicize everything? Every damn thing.
Not Everyone's Boyhood
Extraordinary as it is, Richard Linklater's film avoids the topic of race in ways that are all too common for its genre, for Hollywood, and for America.
. . . . . . . Because in this otherwise sprawling exploration of a boy’s life in America, there is an essential aspect of the present-day human experience that goes unexplored: race. . . . . .
But the fact that this particular film omits the topic of race almost entirely, underscores something insidious about our movies and the society they reflect.
This is the guy I hate. I can't watch anything on TV without formulaic racial representation crammed onto the screen. I watch Continuum, a sci-fi show actually set, not just filmed but set, in Canada's Vancouver, a city with a 60% white population and 28% Asian population and 1% black population and there's black people running all through the series and hardly any Asians. This contrived ramming of race into cinema is to please guys like this. He goes to see this movie and complains that it stands apart from ALL OTHER CINEMA because it doesn't jam racial issues onto the screen. The one movie that's an exception to racial bean counting has to be taken to task for breaking ranks with all the racists in liberaldom.Extraordinary as it is, Richard Linklater's film avoids the topic of race in ways that are all too common for its genre, for Hollywood, and for America.
. . . . . . . Because in this otherwise sprawling exploration of a boy’s life in America, there is an essential aspect of the present-day human experience that goes unexplored: race. . . . . .
But the fact that this particular film omits the topic of race almost entirely, underscores something insidious about our movies and the society they reflect.
Why do liberals have to politicize everything? Every damn thing.