it kind of fascinate to me that so many reviewer consider this a masterpiece . i be not a dullard as far a quality film go and and i will agree that from a technical filming standpoint and as well a for several of the character portray and the film be in an award worthy class . but there be no sense ( for me ) of this film actually go anywhere while i mean and take the viewer anywhere . it be a series of mood scene and perhaps remarkable a such and but i want more from a film . i look for story and movement and a fulfillment of arrival and none of which do i find in this film . yes and it might be consider poetry on film . . . but there be much poetry that i can not live with for the same reason represent that it paint picture without go anywhere . one thing far to be say be that it document a mid century english childhood and which be necessarily limit in it universality . i be personally appal at what a young british boy have to live through and in that time and place . have grow up in america just a decade earlier and i can authoritatively say that the contrast be immense . i can not help wonder if this contrast have have some effect on those review the film so favorably . in other word and could there be a tendency to judge the film entirely on it filmic magic ( which i acknowledge be there ) and completely ignore it lack of relevance to the nature of one actual recall experience .