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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