Sunday, March 4, 2018

The Spectacular Now - 2013 REVIEW



The Spectacular Now (2013) 
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Starring Miles Teller as Sutter; Shailene Woodley as Aimee; Brie Larson as Cassidy

A moving film about two average high school seniors before Ipad’s and smart phones changed our society. Sex must come up in a film like this or reality is lost, but the director had class and doesn’t insist on showing her chest.  Sutter and Aimee are smart, but make honest mistakes.  The movie does a great job of developing the characters and how we all have masks we must shed and fears we must eventually face.  It’s a serious movie with some laughs, but so real you find yourself relating your own life to what’s happening on screen.  In one easily overlooked scene Sutter (the boy) while being counseled by a caring teacher asks the teacher point blank “are you happy?”  The teacher doesn’t respond. 

Aimee is smart and very focused.  She embraces the popular class clown as her first boyfriend. Sutter has a harder time dealing with reality causing issues that tug at your heart.  Both main characters are likeable and genuine bringing home an overall idea that the ‘spectacular now’ is great, but its nothing without sharing those memories with the same people tomorrow and doing life together in true love and friendship and owning the responsibilities that go along with that.  Thus creating a healthy environment for others to flourish as well as yourself. 

The ending reminds us all we must all make choices and learn and then make better choices and keep moving forward.  Our thoughts result in actions that result in habits that become our character that lead us to our destiny and the legacy we leave behind.  We cannot live others lives but we do influence them for good or bad.  
In other words ‘Be excellent to one another’ NOW!

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