The Spectacular Now

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Name of director James Ponsoldt I know enjoy filmSmashed since early last year. Not only impressed with the acting of Mary Elizabeth Winstead-charming in the movie, I was very impressed with the way the story Smashed a down-to-earth as well as striking and touching because it is so real. Therefore, I look forward to the next work of Ponsoldt: The Spectacular Now. Smashed In contrast with screenplay also written by Ponsoldt, The Spectacular Now adapted from a novel by Tim Tharp and adapted into a screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. This duet was also the masterpiece that spawned indie (500) Days of Summer are cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt becoming a Hollywood A-class star. So how do the results of this collaboration?

Who does not know Sutter Keely? He is a boy who is very famous in Senior High School. He had a cheerful demeanor and a charming boyfriend Cassidy. Sutter did have a little problem. Test scores at her school and her ugly little alcoholic (though not to be a serious drinker) but what's the harm? Hedonistic lifestyle and live in the present without the need for planning in the future is the style of Sutter. And so on until a small misunderstanding made ​​him break up with his girlfriend. Because angry with Cassidy, Sutter drinking until drunk and passed out. It was discovered by a school friend, a woman is reserved and a little anti-social named Aimee Finicky.

At first Sutter friends and even dating with Aimee for revenge on Cassidy. After all, the nature of which is 180 degrees Aimee contrary to Sutter makes him so curious about him. Aimee is a girl that intelligence, shy, likes sci-fi and manga (read: weird hobbies) but also loves with all her heart Sutter. After all, the main difference from Sutter and Aimee lies in how they view their lives. While Sutter is the man who only live in today and see it NOW Aimee is a girl her life in front of him and see the FUTURE. When the two collide and then how their relationship will continue?Find Your Pleasure Here

The Spectacular Now is ... just ... wow. I want to describe this movie with simple sentences but I can not. It is a film that, for lack of a better word, spectacular. I love, love, love the acting of Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley are chemistry instantly felt from their first scene together. Miles Teller I previously only knew as a boy hijinks good handyman in the 21 & Over Project X and prove that he can, so can in fact, to act serious and display various layers of the character. Sutter is not a simple character. He is a complex character who uses drinking and laughter to cover the solitude and loneliness and Miles turn completely to screen.

On the other hand Shailene Woodley who previously have received a lot of praise through The Descendants (the public may know her as the girl he cast into Mary Jane in The Amazing Spider-man 2 but canceled) show the quality of his acting as one of the young artists who deserve attention performance. Those of you who remember him as a rebel and selfish girl in The Descendants will be surprised to see him in this film becomes a sweet girl type of girl-next-door. There is a love scene between Miles and Shailene were executed so perfectly shows the chemistry between the two. Even so it should be recognized that the main star of this movie is still Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley are complementary. It would be interesting to see Divergent later where they will play together again with the roles reversed ... Woodley became the main star and Teller into supporting roles.

However, this film does not just stop talking about their relationship but also about courage for someone to see his past, learn from it, then move on to a new future. This scene is the most realistic shown in how changes Aimee shy become more brave at the end of the movie also how Sutter searching for the father who left him as a child and how a meeting between the two leads to the best scene I watch this year. I do not want spoilers but how Sutter expressing disappointment at the ideal picture of a father who crushed a mess is something that seems to be understood by every child who comes from a broken home.

I talked at length about Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley for the life of this film is located on both the chemistry but that does not mean the other players acting badly. Of the supporting cast row Brie Larson, Mary Elizabeth Winstead-, until Kyle Chandler playing nicely here but if they have to choose I would choose Jennifer Jason Leigh as Sutter mother who in the end is the figure who best understand the child's desire to find her father - no matter how jerk his father first and then still can be a haven for the child in all of his difficulties.

All the complexities of The Spectacular Now this could get crushed if pacing bad script and a director who is not competent. Fortunately it does not happen. Some readers of the novel is a protest stating that some of their favorite parts of the novel cut ending is also changing. After all, the novel and the film are two different things. The writing duo Neustadter and Weber has been very well thought of introducing the characters, the onset of the conflict, until the resolution that leaves a warm feeling in the heart. I also salute the  Ponsoldt each scene with a bandage-style simplicity Smashed his work. He is clearly a new favorite indie director now!