Some of the most famous movies made by director Richard Linklater tend to center on youthful protagonists, like the High Schoolers in
Dazed and Confused, the college-aged fraternity boys of
Everybody Wants Some!!! or the lead character who inhabits numerous stages of youth in
Boyhood. Linklater has a knack for writing both realistic and dramatically involving younger characters, but
Last Flag Flying shows he doesn't lose his talents as a screenwriter when he's dealing with older individuals (fellow entries in Linklater's dynamite 2010's run
Before Midnight and
Bernie are similar showcases for this), on the contrary, he seems to thrive when given the opportunity to explore more life-experienced human beings.
