An afternoon with Oskar
Appropriately enough off to see Boyhood this morning. A gorgeous day, with sunlight that you could actually feel heat from. We walked down to the Duke of York, and met Rosie. The cinema in a state of confusion with a lamentable failure of a new computer system. Lorraine had booked for us online, but the tickets were paid for and not confirmed. At the cinema we were allocated new tickets and there were people with legitimate tickets in the seats we were sold. Eventually we were shown to the upper circle, so all was well. We pitied the people having to work there when the systems are failing. Anyway it turned out that Boyhood, which I missed last year, was one of the best films I have ever seen. We all loved it. It is about the boyhood of an American boy, but the filming process took 12 years so all the characters age in real life, and the boy grows up to be 18. I can't quite pin down why the film is so fantastic. It just is. Emerged blinking into the strong sunlight, and stood ...