Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

A TV news report describes the Fallujah ambush; Dad calls it a disaster.

Scene 25 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Tv Newsman
Dad

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The story so farBefore scene 25

As his mother’s homes and relationships change, Mason grows from a restless child into a young photographer learning to choose his own direction before leaving for college.

Scenes 1–11
Mason’s world is a child’s local orbit of school, siblings, play, and a family not yet displaced.
Scenes 12–23
The move exposes Mason’s wish to keep his friends and stay connected to his absent father while Olivia seeks a more secure life.
Just before
Scene 22
At Grandma's house, Samantha shows off her grades while Mason plays a Gameboy and reaches for the last candy.
Scene 23
Their father returns from Alaska to collect the children; the adults navigate awkwardly around his plan to bring them to Olivia.
Scene 24
At the bowling alley, Samantha celebrates a strike while Mason gutters and Dad tells him life has no bumpers.
Scene 25
This scene

25EXT. STREET AS CAR BURNS (ON TV SCREEN)

TV NEWSMAN (V.O.)

Four Blackwater operatives have been

viciously attacked in their cars in

Fallujah. The bodies and cars were

set on fire, after insurgents started

shooting, killing American citizens.

DAD (O.S.)

Look at this. It's a disaster.

TV NEWSMAN (V.O.)

But the ambush didn’t end there.

The bodies of the four men were

savagely ripped apart...