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my personal boyhood review a movie made by a middle aged man about the boyhood Since obviously a teenager cannot make a movie about her/himself, this movie is gonna win the Oscar.. but .. we had already Mark Twain, why we need this sh. in our times? I mean, boyhood is an age when we all experience fantasies, dreams, the more we live out of the reality the better it is for the rest of our lives. If we pull out the magic imagination from our boyhoods, the rest of our lives is just a f@#!ING agony. If, because we are older now, we look at the boys and girls with our boring eyes, we doom the next generation to the same world of sh@#! we have been living since we forget our boyhoods. So, it's just a matter of terms, t the end. If this movie is all about the sense of frustration when we age, it's OK (the best scene is when the mother cries) but PLEASE don't think this movie is about boyhoods.

It's a sentimental comedy - a bit pathetic. This is the limit of the current cinema in Italy. we have no sense of irony, then you can have only from one side the desperation of Gomorrah, and on the other "plastic" comedies like this one. It is very difficult to find popular movies comparable with the old Italian masterpieces. The characters are not credible and not funny. This movie depicts a more stereotypical vision of the Italian than the Sopranos' TV series - By the way, it is curios that a TV-serial made in US is more effective to depict some of the Italian culture than movies made in Italy. As Italians, we have no way to reflect to our conditions, improve ourselves and avoid to be stuck to the same old stereotypes: Pizza,Sole,Mandolino with the difference that in this movie Mafia is just a fiction - a set inside the set just to save Alberto's marriage - this is very sad, and not funny at all.