Even knowing of the books existence, I watched the film without reading it. From the trailer I was hoping for a lighthearted hollywoodish teenage movie about love and friendship, you know, the usual ‘weird outcast finally overcomes his fears, makes friends, gets the girl’ type of film. On one hand, yes, this is that kind of film, but on the other it also has this European feel to it. I don’t know whether it’s because of Emma Watson, or not, but it definitely has a different feeling.
The film has a darker lining. Charlie (Logan Lerman), the young protagonist, the school’s outcast, meets Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller). The two help him come out of his shell, show his the world of music and life, friendship and love.
Of course a love story is in the midst of Chalie’s self-discovery path. Sam, who is the wild, carefree yet caring and loving, not to mention astonishingly beautiful dream of every boy chooses to take care of Charlie and show him how to live properly. Her taste in music gradually influences the boy to look at the world differently. Their love story, followed by usual complications of their background and difficult experiences, is very heart-warming and cute. Probably because both of them, Emma and Logan are amazingly beautiful and have crazy chemistry.
However, the person who is the biggest surprise of the film is Ezra Miller. His character, Patrick, a gay and very rebellious student, is very dynamic, unbelievably interesting to watch. His adventurous nature makes him the most memorable character of the film and his acting leaves you guessing how can he be so unknown. Practically every scene is dominated by him and his charisma. I’m positive that we’ll be seeing much more of him in the future.
As mentioned before, this film created this lighthearted atmosphere with all the joyous and fun, yet rebellious car rides and soft rock music, but the dark side of the plot, which comes out eventually, seems a bit out of place. I know that it’s more a problem of the book, as this film is the adaptation and since I haven’t read the book, I don’t know what kind of atmosphere is created there. However, it didn’t feel right hearing about Sam’s rough childhood or about Charlie’s previous school year. Something was definitely off and it would have been much better to either darken the atmosphere to make it seem much more natural that *these* particular children have issues or somehow discard some facts that do not go well with the whole film.
Nevertheless, the film is a huge success. The casting is perfect, the actors did an amazing job. The film’s atmosphere is so cute and cheerful and the atmosphere of the ’90s is so perfectly carried out. A perfect Friday evening film.
7/10
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