Hello, fellow movie fans. I'm Lily Percy, and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with the amazing poet Naomi Shihab Nye about the movie that changed her life, Boyhood.

If you haven't seen the movie, you should, but it's okay if you haven't. Don't worry. We're going to cover everything you need to know in order to follow Richard Linklater's masterpiece.

The first time that I saw Boyhood, I had this feeling that Richard Link later had been reading my diary.

He clearly had been with me all through childhood in teenage years, all of the stress,

the emotional roller coasters, the pain, the sorrow, the loneliness, and somehow he had captured it in this epic movie called Boyhood. It's a movie that defines a generation, and even though Naomi Shihab Nye and myself have about 30 years in between us, it's defined her and changed her life.

Naomi is one of my all-time favorite poets and one of my all-time favorite people, really.

And I spoke with her at a live, this movie changed me interview in Scots

Valley, California.

So today we're going to talk about boyhood, which is the movie that changed Naomi's life.

And I was so excited when she picked this movie because there's no movie like it, in my opinion.

It's one of these rare films that changes you when you watch it.

The moment you finish watching it, you just kind of can't wait to watch it again.

It was released in 2014, and the director, Richard Linklater, wanted to make a movie about growing up.

So he filmed it in real time over a period of 12 years, And in the process, he tells a story of one boy named Mason

from the age of 6 to 18 as he grows up in Texas.

His parents are divorced, and it's very complicated.

They're played beautifully by Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.

And the movie is raw and poetic.

And it depicts the complex moments that make up our lives.

The heart breaks, the joys, the mundane.

And as Naomi had described it, the slow time of childhood when your whole job was looking around.

So here are two clips that we're going to watch to give you a sense of what boyhood is,

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