He was hardly the first, but Thornton Wilder said it, in "Our Town" and other plays: It's all over very soon. In Wilder's one-act "The Long Christmas Dinner," 90 years in the life span of a single extended family unfold across the same dinner table. Linklater manages much the same illusion in "Boyhood," only there are no theatrics. The movie feels like few other movies, perhaps no other movie. It revels in the everyday. We grow up. We learn joy, and sorrow, and if we're lucky we learn to seek out the better of the two options. We take our kids to a Harry Potter midnight book launch. We elect a new president. We divorce, sometimes, and remarry. We do the best we can with our children.