Friday, January 20, 2012

"The art of getting by"

Not all but most Indie movies that I have watched always have ambigious endings. I just thought about this after watching "The Art of Getting By", which I don't even know if its classified as one but I loved it. There was some frustration surrounded by the main male character who is a senior in highschool but has absolutley no motivation for essentially living until he meets a young lady who changes all of that for him. The plot alone could easily apply to a late 90's highschool boy-find-girl-looses-girl-gets-girl-back kinda film but there was something ginuine about this guys misanthropic behavior that couldn't hide behind cheesy music or synchronized dancing. The story line was so relatable but not at the same time. If that makes any sense lol. All in all I enjoyed it and the ending left you with questions, but good questions. Questions that help you the viewer stop and think what could really be next for the characters. And like the principal of the school told this guy, after he had given up and finally came to do what he needed to do, "anything is possible", I was actually left with that feeling is the most not so cheesy, but motivating way.

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