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I wasn't sure whether the other 4 reviews were fake or not but decided to give it a try anyway as I like the genre.
And I'm glad I did it; this was pretty cool and well acted.
Despite the low budget, this doesn't show and the characters felt genuine and at ease, even though they're not blockbuster stars. Also they are given enough screen time so that you can actually start to care for them.
I liked the guy who played Ty (he seems pretty natural on screen) and the girl which played Sophie was a very pleasant surprise as well.
The fact that it doesn't feel contrived or cheesy at any point, it doesn't try too hard and yet somehow it touches some chords inside, made it work for me.
All in all, it left me with a pleasant feeling, even though you don't get the standard happy ending fare in this one.
And I'm glad I did it; this was pretty cool and well acted.
Despite the low budget, this doesn't show and the characters felt genuine and at ease, even though they're not blockbuster stars. Also they are given enough screen time so that you can actually start to care for them.
I liked the guy who played Ty (he seems pretty natural on screen) and the girl which played Sophie was a very pleasant surprise as well.
The fact that it doesn't feel contrived or cheesy at any point, it doesn't try too hard and yet somehow it touches some chords inside, made it work for me.
All in all, it left me with a pleasant feeling, even though you don't get the standard happy ending fare in this one.
I've never read Jane Austen. Not so far, at least. So, I couldn't draw parallels and recognize all the characters of the novels that frequently interweave in conversations along the film.
That didn't prevent it from sucking me in from the first minutes.
Jane Austen apart, I think this is a great piece of cinema, for the exquisite acting it displays and the rich script. I've seen a lot of movies. Really, a big lot. And the problem with it is that after a while you sort of start to see the strings behind the curtain, in most of the movies you watch... you can't really get inside the story as easy as you used to before; you notice every little fake acting, error, plot hole, you name it.
This was a refreshing exception from that. The acting was so real, pleasant and captivating. The story is catching you from the beginning and doesn't let go; the characters literally grow on you.
It had some real life drama, but all sweetened by the warmth of the friendship that shines between all the female leads and the way they managed to always care for each other through the rough moments.
And the acting is gripping. The emotional range displayed, astonishing. The quiet looks of Jocelyn when Grigg starts paying attention to Sylvia or when he talks about her in the library say more than a thousand words; the guilty look in Prudie's eyes when she looks across the street meaning to cross over towards the boy she's attracted to, are just a couple samples of perfect expressiveness without words.
As opposed to the main bulk of Hollywood movies lately, in which most of the female characters are more or less displayed as tits and ass, this one manages to portray women as the truly marvelous creatures they are; deep, complex beings, strong and fragile, beautiful and insecure at once, a rainbow of emotional paradoxes.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy tits and ass in a film as much as the next guy, but most of the time you can't help feeling that a lot of female characters miss a central piece of their personality puzzle, across a lot of movies. This is one of those films which brings back that missing piece of the puzzle, and it does that with an underlying profound sense of serenity and grace.
I say this one is definitely a keeper, in my book.
9/10
That didn't prevent it from sucking me in from the first minutes.
Jane Austen apart, I think this is a great piece of cinema, for the exquisite acting it displays and the rich script. I've seen a lot of movies. Really, a big lot. And the problem with it is that after a while you sort of start to see the strings behind the curtain, in most of the movies you watch... you can't really get inside the story as easy as you used to before; you notice every little fake acting, error, plot hole, you name it.
This was a refreshing exception from that. The acting was so real, pleasant and captivating. The story is catching you from the beginning and doesn't let go; the characters literally grow on you.
It had some real life drama, but all sweetened by the warmth of the friendship that shines between all the female leads and the way they managed to always care for each other through the rough moments.
And the acting is gripping. The emotional range displayed, astonishing. The quiet looks of Jocelyn when Grigg starts paying attention to Sylvia or when he talks about her in the library say more than a thousand words; the guilty look in Prudie's eyes when she looks across the street meaning to cross over towards the boy she's attracted to, are just a couple samples of perfect expressiveness without words.
As opposed to the main bulk of Hollywood movies lately, in which most of the female characters are more or less displayed as tits and ass, this one manages to portray women as the truly marvelous creatures they are; deep, complex beings, strong and fragile, beautiful and insecure at once, a rainbow of emotional paradoxes.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy tits and ass in a film as much as the next guy, but most of the time you can't help feeling that a lot of female characters miss a central piece of their personality puzzle, across a lot of movies. This is one of those films which brings back that missing piece of the puzzle, and it does that with an underlying profound sense of serenity and grace.
I say this one is definitely a keeper, in my book.
9/10
I went ahead and checked this one, as I liked quite a bit Kat Dennings in "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" and I decided since then that I'd check the next movie with her that comes under my eyes.
She has a sort of "not-trying-to-be-cute or bad either" attitude that kind of hooked me and suites her very well. That being said, I think it's because of her that the film somehow worked for me; she seems to be a good actress with a lot of potential and she managed to keep all of this together and carry her leading role with ease and grace.
There are some other characters in the movie which have good performances too, and there are some little beautiful moments in there, but for me it was Kat that held all of this in one piece.
However, after seeing this, thinking back at it I realized that if it was somebody else who played her role, this would probably have been easily forgettable, for me.
So, there you go, I'm biased. As somebody else was saying, there are quite a bit of scenes or events in the movie which seem a little superfluous or pointless, at least in the sense that they don't lead anywhere further and thus become weird mere "decorations".
All in all it was nice to see Kat carry out a more complex role with the same ease and style she displayed in the "teen" posture she had in the other movie.
I'm not sure how much this review will help anyone decide whether to see it or not; I guess you'll just have to make up your own mind about this one. ;)
She has a sort of "not-trying-to-be-cute or bad either" attitude that kind of hooked me and suites her very well. That being said, I think it's because of her that the film somehow worked for me; she seems to be a good actress with a lot of potential and she managed to keep all of this together and carry her leading role with ease and grace.
There are some other characters in the movie which have good performances too, and there are some little beautiful moments in there, but for me it was Kat that held all of this in one piece.
However, after seeing this, thinking back at it I realized that if it was somebody else who played her role, this would probably have been easily forgettable, for me.
So, there you go, I'm biased. As somebody else was saying, there are quite a bit of scenes or events in the movie which seem a little superfluous or pointless, at least in the sense that they don't lead anywhere further and thus become weird mere "decorations".
All in all it was nice to see Kat carry out a more complex role with the same ease and style she displayed in the "teen" posture she had in the other movie.
I'm not sure how much this review will help anyone decide whether to see it or not; I guess you'll just have to make up your own mind about this one. ;)