Favorite Excerpts From The Movie "Boyhood"

             
"Cyborg Generation"
                                                                             

SHEENA

... That sounds to me like just another extreme Mason view of everything.

MASON

Not at all! I finally figured it out. It's like when they realized it was gonna be too expensive to actually build cyborgs and robots... I mean, the costs of that were impossible. They decided to just let humans turn themselves into robots. That's what's going on right now.

SHEENA

Oh, right now?

MASON

Yeah! I mean, why not? There are billions of us just laying around, not really doing anything. We don't cost anything. I mean we're even pretty good at self-maintenance and reproducing constantly. And as it turns out, we're already biologically programmed for our little cyborg upgrades.

SHEENA

How?

MASON

Seriously. I read this thing other day about how, like, when you hear that ding on your inbox you get a, like a dopamine rush in your brain. It's like we're being chemically rewarded for allowing ourselves to be brainwashed. How evil is that?

We're fucked.

SHEENA

So you deleting your Facebook page is gonna change all that? Remember when Trevor deleted his Facebook page last year and everyone just hated him? You made more fun of him than anyone.

MASON

I still make fun of Trevor, though.

SHEENA

But it looked like he was so pathetically desperate for attention.Or to be different, or something.

MASON

That's just 'cause they did that lame story about it in the school paper.

SHEENA

And then he had to make a big announcement about it when he came back a month later.

MASON

That's the thing though, I'm not doing it for attention. I just want to try and not live my life through

a screen. I want, like, some kind of actual interaction. A real person, not just the profile they put up.

Sheena's looking at her phone.

SHEENA

Oh, I'm sorry. Were you saying something?

She laughs.

MASON

Yeah, okay, I know you're joking, but, I mean, it's kinda true you have been, you know, checking your phone this whole time, and so what are you really doing? You don't care what your friends are up to on Saturday afternoon but you're also obviously not fully experiencing my profound bitching so... it's like everyone's just stuck in, like, an in-between state. Not really experiencing anything.

SHEENA

It's not an experience, it's just information. Look, for example, I just got the address of the club

where we're meeting them later, so we won't be wandering the streets of Austin lost for an hour tonight. Thank you very much, Facebook. And I just texted my mom back.

MASON

Oh, that's -- that's groundbreaking. She hasn't seen you in, like, 55 minutes?

SHEENA

Oh! Oh my god, most importantly, Meg's family just got a miniature pet pig.

Sheena hands him the phone.

MASON

(looks at phone photo)

Hm!

(Laughs)

Okay, you're right. That is a --

SHEENA

Right?

MASON

That is a really cute, tiny pig. Our lives can go on.

SHEENA

I want one.

"Seizing Moments"

NICOLE
You know how everyone's always saying, "Seize the moment"?

Mason nods yes.

NICOLE (CONT'D)
I don't know, I'm kinda thinkin' it's the other way around. You know, like, the moment seizes us.

MASON
Yeah. Yeah, I know. It's constant, the moments, it's just... it's like always right now, you know?

NICOLE
Yeah.
They trade smiles.


"Ryan's Song"

Well, I want for us to be together forever
But to wander wherever I may
I want you to be easy and casual
But still demand I stay

I want for you to know me completely,
But still remain mysterious
Consider everything deeply,
But still remain fearless

Climb to the top, look over the ledge
Dance barefoot on a razor's edge
Reach for the stars, grab the tiger by the tail
If I don't try, I'll never fail

If you go home, you're rolling the dice
Can't step in the same river twice
If you love too much, it'll turn to hate
If you never leave home, you'll never be late

If you eat too much, you're gonna get fat
If you buy a dog, you'll piss off your cat
Take a deep breath and enjoy the ride
Cause arrivals and departures run side by side

Boyhood 2014