Boyhood

Filmed over 12 years with the same collective of actors--the child actors mature into young adults, the adult actors become a little more weathered with each passing year. That by itself was fascinating to watch. It's not a longitudinal documentary & it doesn't have a traditional story structure, but you feel like you're being given a glimpse into the development (mentally & physically) of a young boy. He is witness to divorce, alcoholism, abuse--what has unfortunately become the contemporary family bullshoot. But you watch it all unfold as well, like a concerned 3rd party, a voyeur into someone else's life.