This film about the relationship of a guy from a difficult family and a girl from the privileged caste caused me a lot of conflicting emotions, which I could not immediately understand, but what is most striking is that I liked the film and deeply touched me.
It was piercingly painful to understand the pain with which this strange teenager lives, that under the crust of inadequacy and rudeness a pure and deeply feeling soul is hidden from the misunderstanding and cruel world. His feelings - very bright and tender - do not find the proper response in his beloved girl, and it is painful to see how much this hurts him.
As for the structure of the film, I have serious complaints about it and storytelling. and for non-working angles I would ask, and for the lack of many introductory ones that have to be completed independently in my mind for a correct understanding of the story. There are scenes in the film that say nothing, and some visual information, on the contrary, is not enough.
But all this, to my deepest surprise, did not spoil the impression of the film. Apparently, thanks to the main character (or rather his well-built image) - you sympathize with him and empathize with him, during the film you are sad and angry with him.
The film is not 10, but I will put it without shame.
After watching this movie, I remember my class. After all, I studied with strange guys who were from dysfunctional families, looked untidy and always got into criminal stories. They tried not to pay attention to them, and they were closed or, on the contrary, behaved like class clowns. But now, years later, you begin to understand what was really behind this false indifference, fun or aggression. Speaking about the basis on real events, director Regina Crossby meant a collective image of exactly such rogue students who were in her school.
This story cannot be described in a simple sentence: an unpopular guy falls in love with a popular school girl. Based on real events, the film was wider than this typical template. After all, the behavior of the guy is really very strange, sometimes even frightening, and the girl is not a typical princess of school, but rather someone masquerading as this image. As a result, the story becomes more and more non-standard and takes us farther from the typical films about teenagers.
Thayer is an unhappy guy who lives in a terrible family. He wanders the streets with friends and sometimes goes to school. One indifferently thrown phrase by his roommate Amber hurts the young man and makes him fight for her attention. They look very different, they have nothing in common. But in the end, they are connected by loneliness. He is alone in his struggle for a normal life. No one cares about him, and no one asks for help and escapes from his hellish life. She is invisible in her family, forced to put up with the indifference of her parents. Amber feels lonely, even among friends, because she subconsciously feels that she is taken for her own because of her appearance and proper cheerleading, rather than her personal qualities. Many write in reviews about the incredible love between Thayer and Amber. For me, it was so easy to meet two loneliness and understand each other ... up to a certain point.
I think the most interesting moments in this movie start after school. Namely, what resonance Amber made acquaintance with her strange neighbor on the desk for adult life of the girl. I think it's a good story about how indifference and fear of losing our social status sometimes robs us of our true friends.
This film about teenage love, causes a lot of conflicting feelings, and yet stands out from the rest of the snotty teenage films in that it is not. It touches on real feelings and real life, real people and actions that show and reveal each character. All the stupidity and thoughtfulness of the decisions made. There are only two questions left after viewing. And you will never find answers to them, but what they are makes you think. You twist in your head a lot of details of the film, events and those emotions that you or the characters on the screen experienced. Deep and hard, because the film evokes real emotions, and they are quite complex, however, these are the films you want to watch.
10 out of 10
Now I am impressed by watching this masterpiece. Not in quotation marks! I'm one of those who've seen "The Kit," "The Memory Diary." To me, The Strange Teenager Story is on par with these two films. Let me tell you a little bit about the characters I see.
Amber is a smart girl who is loved by girls and boys. She is deprived of the attention of her parents and, of course, seeks attention from her peers. She likes white, her white collar is so important to her and she doesn't want to get it dirty. She tries to look perfect, white, but at heart she knows she wants someone else. This is a secret that she can only write on paper.
Teyer is a handsome guy who is not lucky with his parents. He has a hard life, too hard for a schoolboy. He hides his pain behind inappropriate and crazy behavior.
For a long time, the two of them had a secret that attracted them to each other. She helped him believe there was something good in life. It was the straw he was clinging to. In the end, she understood everything, but he no longer needed it.
I'm just devastated by this movie. It's just an unreal gamut of emotions that show us their love. I sobbed... This film is original and has its own highlight, I advise all fans of this genre to watch.
10 out of 10
As the trend of recent years shows, it is increasingly difficult for the modern viewer to captivate, interest and touch stories about the lives of teenagers. But no, no, and there will be a picture that literally wants to put on the shelf of textbook categories “about love”, “about betrayal”, “about relationships” etc.
"Teenage dirtbag" is a textbook film that gives deep and productive reflection, or if you will - food for the soul. Its amazing property is to return the viewer to the memories of his own adolescence and youth. Rather, it’s not a film about teenagers as some kind of incomprehensible phenomenon, but a film about how we behave in a society filled with conventions, stereotypes and prejudices as we grow up and become most vulnerable.
Amber’s image evokes neither sympathy nor acceptance in more than half of the audience. But do you remember yourself at 16? Were you popular at school? Or have you been thrown to the margins of the social hierarchy in that notorious dirtbag? Or did you not have an odd classmate, a bully, or a bully in your class? And how often have you wondered what problems do the boys and girls around you have? Or have you never been haunted by the fear of realizing the first big and adult feeling, which can be rejected, not understood, cause reproach of others?
“Teenage dirtbag” is a brilliant picture that pulls the entire breadth of the spiritual ability to empathize with screen heroes into the light of God from the viewer. In fact, even if Regina Crosby did anything else, she would still be directing a single movie. But the film is worthwhile and extraordinary.
I definitely recommend watching, especially if you are interested in a teenage theme more than just kisses and sighs on the bench.
9 out of 10
Sometimes it’s hard to express how you feel. These feelings are like poison running through your body, running through your veins and dying somewhere in your heart. The worst thing is that you can't express it, you can't cry, you can't scream.
Amber is a popular girl at school who was very concerned about her role in school life. A classmate has been bothering her all year. Thayer saw something in her that no one could see. All his feelings he tries to express in poems, some phrases. Because he doesn’t have the best family, he’s seen as a loser. He does what others don’t do, that’s all, and she needs to be normal like everyone else.
“Why don’t people have the right to be themselves?” Why does everyone hate someone else just because they don’t have the same clothes or behavior? The guy loved this girl so much that he tried his best to prove his love to her, and she just killed all his attempts. Love was there, but how do you know if it is love?
Do not miss the person who makes your heart beat in convulsions, express your feelings as you can, the main thing is to express, people come and go, and their essence does not change. This is what this film has revealed to me.
The film has a soul, it is real, alive and has meaning.
10 out of 10
Viewers with experience who have watched the films “Hurry to Love”, “Whale”, and someone may even pop “Three meters above the level of the sky”, are sure that they can now not be surprised by such a banal background of events as the love of teenagers. If earlier such films caused especially impressionable continuous streams of tears and snot, now, watching some, for example, “Remember me” with Edward. With Robert Pattison, they will maximally cuddle with the main character and give off a lonely tear at the end. No, the flow of emotions has not dried up, just bored with all these sweet-sad stories with template stories like “bad boy fell in love with a good girl, they could not find a common language, but then she reciprocated him and one of them died in the end.” Do you think these are strong films? No, the paintings are good, you can't argue. That’s just one late evening you will inevitably sit down for viewing the accidentally found “Story of a strange teenager”.
Even me, a very experienced viewer, this strange story about strange teenagers, forgive me for the phrase, turned inside out. The beginning of the film saved us from banal clichés: a difficult guy, with a strange sense of humor and a disgusting habit of sticking all sorts of nasty things in his mouth (poor fish, forgive the spoiler, could not resist) meets a spoiled, slightly narcissistic, dependent on his own “popularity” (don’t ask, there is such a strangeness in American schools) girl. And again, the director breaks the templates and instead of developing a love line begins to reveal the characters. If from the first shots they annoyed us, then with every minute of the film you will reluctantly have to admit your own superficiality of assessing human qualities.
Like an experienced old surgeon, director, screenwriter, and producer (and all this, damn it, debut, just imagine!) Regina Crosby pulls out of nowhere a thin scalpel and begins a filigree operation, the vocation of which is to change your understanding of certain aspects of life or even turn inside out, here it goes. The movement – and stereotypes about melodramas are cut off, another glimpse of a surgical instrument – and the shell of conventions covering the characters’ characters falls down, and the “scalpel maestro” himself, with a mute question and expectation, looks at his two assistants – the performers of the main roles in the picture.
Scott Michael Foster and Noah Higesh did not run far from their boss in terms of experience and ultimate success. It is difficult to call them young actors, but it was they who undertook to help the debut of Regina Crosby and coped with this simply magnificently, breaking another template about the sweet types of the main characters in such films. Images in the literal and figurative sense "breathe" poetry. Their extraordinary appearance, combined with almost childish sincerity, puzzled film critics, few of whom were familiar with the play of Foster and Higesh. Well, after a few moments of this very perplexity, applause followed.
I'd clap too, but alas, I can't. I was too emotionally drained by this “Strange Teenager Story.” I can further note the script work of the same Mrs. Crosby, who, having touched the problems of choice, domestic violence, stupid mistakes of youth and dependence on the opinions of others, adding to this a rather untypical love story, managed not only not to get confused in all these intricacies of life, but also to give under the breath of many critics who treated this picture with frivolous neglect even before watching the last one.
“Your face brings me death... And every day I look forward to death.
To be honest, I never really liked dramas, because I always came across the same type of stories: a pye girl and a bully fall in love, overcome difficulties that arise in the way, live happily ever after. Everything is fine, but is it vital? 'The story of a strange teenager' is a completely different matter. Heroes are real people, their relationships are real life.
The story is about two teenagers, who, perhaps, should not be connected. But it turns out that between these two people there is a real love that does not fade even after a few years. Each of the main characters keeps their skeletons in the closet, and naturally, the opinions of others are formed only on the basis of appearance: a successful cheerleader and a psychopath. But it's much deeper than it seems.
Amber looks like a happy, cheerful girl with a bright future. The people closest to her, her parents, don’t care. The only thing that can somehow brighten up the inner weakness, the hidden feeling of resentment and loneliness of the girl is a high status among peers and cheerleading. Can we blame Amber for choosing the latter between her real feelings and her social standing? Yeah. Can we ask her to make the right choice? Nope. It is so easy when you look at everything from the outside, when you do not feel this pressure on yourself. In the end, the girl will pay for her cowardice with suffering.
Tayer - people as he calls the scum of society. Few people are interested in the reason for the wild behavior of people like him. The man has a tense relationship in the family (and this is to say the least). Psychologically, such things are very difficult to experience from day to day, which affects the behavior of the main character. The only chance to express all his emotions is given to Teyer in creative writing classes. There he in a veiled form confesses to Amber in love. He is ready to give everything for this girl, he is at the mercy of his feelings, he was not afraid of the consequences. Scott Foster incredibly beautifully and accurately conveyed every detail of the protagonist, for which I thank him very much.
This movie may seem hard enough for many to understand. You can't just watch it. It must be felt from beginning to end, otherwise it cannot be understood. There is no scene where the characters shout about their love for each other. Amber and Thayer’s close bond is hidden beneath fear, despair, pain and injustice. It's kind of a little masterpiece to me. I'm excited about this movie, so 10.
P.S. Special thanks for the musical accompaniment.
Strange lessons in creative writing. Sitting down to watch the film because of this detail, which distinguishes the film in its genre, because the love of representatives of different school castes is already somewhat worn out. To tell the truth, I thought the teacher would read the children some beautiful letters from past eras, instill a love for pen and paper, talk about the beauty of language, the beauty of words. But the teacher here the cat cried, it is completely unclear what tasks he gives students, and the form of creative writing was some white verse.
If you go through the positive aspects of the film, then it is realistic, restrained, there are no all these crazy American football players who went on the topic of sex & #39; losers', fuzzy fashionistas (who necessarily go in flocks, and in front of the Queen is the captain of cheerleaders).
But the film is definitely not thought out to the end, there is too much unnecessary understatement in it. Like a note on the windshield of a car for Amber, what was it? After that, Amber was born with her only own composition, and even the most beautiful poem of the entire film. ' I breathe deeply the aroma of regret' that's where Thayer and the lightning struck. Then I as an audience thought ' oh, she must be unusual, there are some poems gives. there is something in her soul, something trembling and sublime' Thayer, you and I have been tricked, Amber is a completely ordinary, just a party girl who will never understand you. These poems are so incompatible with her character, as if she stole them from someone and passed them off as her own.
Amber is a huge flaw in the film. There is no beauty, no charm, and most importantly, no depth of soul. By the end of the film, you begin to hate her slowly, because a good guy suffers because of her, and she never went to meet him. So many times Thayer called her for a dialogue, but she turned away, and it is unclear how he did not see that she is empty?
Tayer is a separate conversation. Scott Michael Foster is the jewel of this movie. You want to watch him, watch his eyes, facial expressions, gestures. He's playing great. Thayer's a strained string, a little bit more, and he'll break. A lump of nerves, pain, anger, a desperate desire to be heard, understood and saved. Under the mask of a mad freak, rude and bully - a lonely, broken soul.
Director Regina Crosby presents the film as a love story. But Amber hardly felt even friendly feelings for Thayer, only later there was a sense of guilt. It is difficult to say something unequivocal about Thayer’s feelings: it is attraction, friendship, an attempt to open your soul and find understanding and support. The result is an unfinished film where there is no friendship or relationship. There's a charming and unhappy Thayer who gets so painful to watch as if I knew this guy personally.
Finally, two years later, I decided to review The Strange Teen Story and review the film. All these two years I can say afraid to watch this film again, because once it caused me such a storm of emotions, which the second time I just did not want, but also to forget about it, too, could not. So yesterday I mustered up courage and plunged into the world of teenagers again for two hours.
The two main characters, Amber and Tyler, finish high school. They are young, beautiful and deeply unhappy, each in its own way. In addition, in the hierarchy of school relationships, they stand on different social ladders and this ultimately becomes a decisive factor for Amber, who never dares to take a bold step in accepting her feelings for Tyler, because this acceptance threatens her with “excommunication” from the elite of the school. The fact that there was a feeling between the two heroes is indisputable. Not love, not love, not passion or passion, but a feeling, the purely secret that binds two invisible thread and is able to grow into something real, into something that can turn the entire previous life. When I first watched it, I despised Amber for being cowardly, but this time I understood it and accepted it. It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence to be able to despise convention, and this courage Amber did not and could not be. Amber was a lonely, fearful child, abandoned by his parents and only the status of a cheerleader gave her an imaginary bit of at least some certainty. And how could she decide to give it all up? No way. Tyler was weak too, but in a different way. He struggled with circumstances until the last. It just sometimes seems that the strength to endure no longer and in the life of Tyler at some point it “seems” overpowered everything else.
Heroes finished school, but the feeling remained. For these two, it was a kind of untapped potential that exists and does not exist. In the case of Amber, the proverb is very appropriate: “What we do not keep, lost by crying.” That's exactly what happened to her. The loss of Tyler, when it always seemed that he was there, just to extend a hand, just do not want, was a huge shock for her. Suddenly it turned out that there was no one to reach out, but the feeling still exists, and for the first time this feeling is recognized and understood. So what do you do next?
The ending of the film is very bright and for that the director is very grateful, or Amber. This story is based on real events.
It was as if I had experienced with the heroes what was not with me. .
There are mostly female reviews for the film. I have registered to leave my own.
I heard Band of Horses’ song The Funeral. She stuck in my mind all day long with her melodic sadness. I thought there had to be a movie, necessarily a drama she's in. It has been used in several ways.
Both the film and the song touched as much as it has not touched anything in a long time.
The film is really very subtle and sensual, sad and with mood swings. I didn't look back.
The main character at first caused a feeling bordering on disgust. I don’t like such inappropriate characters. But then I came to him.
The main character also had an ambiguous mood in the film.
I didn't have much of a parallel with my high school crush. But nevertheless, I was very impressed and as if I had experienced this period of school life with the heroes.
The movie isn't really for everyone. I probably wouldn’t have watched it in a different mood. It's worth watching when you're ready to take subtle drama.
I'm afraid to watch this movie. There are only two of them. The Story of a Strange Teenager and Portrait at Twilight. Not very good picture quality, I am beginning to think that this was intended. I tried to even stop watching, but suddenly there was a strange feeling that I had already seen it once, had experienced it a long time ago, but what exactly I did not know yet, I just began to watch. And feelings began to mix - from naughtiness and hostility to penetrating to the depths of the soul, the hurting feeling of love that you involuntarily share. What a heavy burden stereotypes fall on us and how desperately we cling to them, not giving freedom to a feeling so great that it begins to frighten. It is much easier to find an equal, marry him, live in a typical American house, he is at work, she is pregnant. The Union in all respects successful and approved by others. But why is it so disturbing? The film is rare, I would not recommend it, as many people will not understand and will not appreciate it. I want a small circle of people to know about it. So to say the film “for their own”.
At first glance, the plot is obliterated: a bad guy and a good girl. But every minute you watch it, it's not that simple, it's not that bad guy, it's not that good girl. Gradually, the piercing story of their complex lives, choices and demands, but not love, as it might seem in the first minutes, unfolds.
The main character - Teyer - a difficult teenager. But it is not his character that is difficult, but life. Domestic violence, a drinking brother, a self-absorbing father who only remembers his father’s debt after calling from school, and who manifests this duty in a way that is not normal. The life of the Teyer family is nightmarish, but what is worse is that it has become the norm for them. It's a oppressive, suffocating reality in which you have to survive. And only at school, a frightened teenager who is broken down at home can express disagreement with what is happening.
His recklessness and provocative actions are not to draw attention to himself, but rather to protest against everyone, against his own life. Thayer is self-contained, alone in the midst of terrible and ruthless indifference. He hides behind the image of “black punk” and is friends with freaks, but really begins to open only in creative writing lessons after meeting with Amber. The popular girl in the cheerleading group seems distant to him, but similar to him. He looks for her attention, wins a look or just a smile. He writes her poetry. Bright poems about his life, about what he feels and what he hurts. But to break the shell of an elite girl is not so easy.
Amber isn't a villain or a bitch, she's just the right high school girl disliked by her parents. Correct in its understanding: doing homework, regularly attending training, drinking with friends and having sex for nothing. Amber is as lonely as Thayer, but the global difference between them is that she is comfortable with it.
The film tells the story of their relationship with each other and their relationship with their world. The most clearly shown is the graduation class and a little time after graduation: how Thayer wanted to change, and how Amber remained the same - lonely even in marriage. And perhaps most important was their graduation class - a time when everyone made their own choices and went their own way. We don’t know exactly what happened to Thayer’s family or himself, but one thing is clear: he changed his sister’s life, he saved her, and maybe Amber finally felt something.
The film looks in one breath, causing tears and anger at this world, but forcing empathy and thinking.
10 out of 10
«You’re so beautiful, love. I grind you into a fine, soft Powder and inhale you… ».
The main artistic instrument is the play of actors. There is no riot of colorful landscapes, stylish and rich scenery, the dynamism of events, but nevertheless the half-tone of subtle psychological drama extremely strongly influenced me. I would like to emphasize: the film is one of those that requires careful viewing and reflection. There are no good or bad people in creative writing classes. Everyone has something to tell. Everyone has their own truth, and this truth can be seen from a new angle. It's great when there's no room for falsehood, and we realize that completely different people have more in common than it first seems. Thayer’s sincere and heartfelt poems allow him to rise without high social status. Far, far away, creativity takes the guy from the "Dirty Pigsty" & #39; his home.
Taking off her mask in self-training and creative writing classes, Amber begins to improve her opinion of Thayer. Involuntarily, the events of her life erase a clear barrier, clearly shielding the girl from what would seem to be a strange classmate. I think seriously: why did I get so caught up in this movie? Probably because it was easy to penetrate the consciousness of the heroes, to understand the nature of their desires. The main idea is the advantage of human value over social status. I’m glad the film is the way it is. Original and unique. Sad and sad. The beauty is the understatement. After seeing something in the shower. The events of the film remained with me as experienced. It seems that the characters of the film I knew personally and they are real, real, familiar people.
10 out of 10
I’m writing this for all of our beloved girls and women, including my daughter and wife, who both watched this film and in some strange trance fit of stupidity began to look for meaning where there is none and invent things that are not. For some reason, there are so many love films that go by mutual references on a movie search so tragic and do not live up to expectations. And it's scary that somehow moderators miss so many positive one-sided comments on such films without criticism, and there are no negative comments on some of them at all.
The daughter, whose viewing coincided with a breakup with a guy who, according to her own proofs and words to me even before their breakup, did not love her at all, but just sneakily covered up with this word, fell into depression after the film and began to talk about all sorts of stupidities - that everything in life is unfair, this is the "truth of life" and that it is not worth living at all, if so. This stupidity scared me very much, especially since my friend-wife supported her, in my opinion, in approving this film, and so I conducted an explanatory conversation with them (the result of which is quite satisfied, because before that I was sure that they are reasonable women, just such extreme illusionism and fiction in the cinema can and from a reasonable person to knock down, especially if it coincides with a critical minute in real life - I expressed my arguments - received their counter-arguments and in the end we came to a synthesis that really here is a complete substitution of the film and they just don't understand this way, and perhaps they don't use it for someone else, and don't think about it.
The main thing is that this film is not about love! On the contrary, it is a pitiful (read below the waist) film about hate and revenge, stupidity, fear and egocentrism. Yes, he is really sorry, he is in a difficult life situation, which first of all had to be resolved within the family (with the help of the same teacher, friends, acquaintances). It is she who strangles him, crushes and tears him from within with emotions seeking a way out. And then she turns around. The film hints that she refuses him because of the status, but in reality, a girl, a woman can not but feel the inner tension from the traumatic situation in which the guy because of the stupidity of loved ones got (at home). And this causes a natural right and saving fear, a fear of stupidity. And was it really necessary for her, in spite of all these external cues, to ignore them and fall into the trap of such a relationship that he would very possibly do to her, just as his father did to his mother or his brother and sister, in order to take out the accumulated anger and fear that must be transformed somewhere? The film touches on very serious topics in fact, but it just does it too superficially and falsely, which is extremely dangerous in my opinion. Such explosives are not joked by any amateurs or provocateurs.
The fact that there is no love proves the nature of their relationship, and there are poems and fruits in the classroom, but this is not about love. In fact, it shows a simple sexual desire, mixed with severe emotional conflict and trauma. You really sympathize with the guy, but don't blame anything on love or a girl. I think she's right, and she's done nothing wrong. On the contrary, if she had bought into pity or false “love”, then all this drama could have much more far-reaching consequences in her life. She just couldn't love him. To each his own. And I think it's good, because Gotessa, in my opinion, suited him much more to his liking and in general. So there's also an empty whim here. Well, you switch to others, especially more suitable for you, but no, I want this and if not can go shoot myself. It's stupid. And the same episode in the toilet - he clearly just wants to have her rudely, so that she would act on him and love him forcibly - which is simply impossible + he himself, in my opinion, does not love her, but just wants to be egocentric (and despotic, in my opinion) and probably spins in parallel with the Gotha. After all, you can pretend to be both a “loving” and a “Christian” and even a pillar (and perhaps without realizing your true motives and the fact that you pretend to be right, for the sake of achieving exactly the opposite of the left, just to achieve your goal, which in fact can be quite harmful, and not useful as it seems without due consideration of causes and consequences). And for those who do not think in such extremely important and serious aspects of life, there is nothing to expect from it. There's only one tragedy, and it could be. But not necessarily. And those who do not betray their minds in life may well cope successfully with such cases.
And the ending is simply funny - a "monument" of non-existent love in the form of a name for a child. What will it decide who will help?! On the contrary, you will only fixate on a false guilt complex, even though you are not at all guilty of anything – why? – but just enough because you do not have to say yes to anyone who wants you. And that's perfectly normal. Otherwise, there would be more tragedies due to ignorance of each other and incompatibility. Whoever makes a world tragedy out of it and hangs himself is an idiot. So there is no need to cycle on this, you just need to run away from such troubles mutual, if so uncomfortable together – and boys and girls. That's all. And tragedy can be sucked out of the finger, which the afftars and actors did in vain! This is my opinion, you can explain to me what I am wrong (you disagree with me).
In the wilderness, in the darkness, my days stretched quietly.
To paraphrase Pushkin a little, after this film: the heart beats in ecstasy, and for me again resurrected and deity, and inspiration, and life, and tears, and love. There are no tears here.
Feeling 17 again. This is the love that will tear you away from the rest of the world, that you think about, that you want, that you are afraid of, and at the same time you admit that you probably are not worthy of it, and often it bypasses the cowardly side, but it still happens to someone.
I would watch this movie again and again, but there will be no more answers than the first viewing. It’s like an affected string that will always sound equally painful, just quieter or louder at different times in life.
I can’t say anything about the music, because it fit so well into the film that I didn’t even notice it, it’s like one solid, inseparable impression: music, heroes, plot, script.
I liked the fact that there were so many moments that make up the life of a girl. For example, how subtly the teacher felt her condition and asked to carry the envelope. Or a relationship with your father in a situation where you don't even know which side to take. And situations in the support group, and relationships with guys, and with friends, and with enemies, much more. Yes, in general, the same with the life of a young man. Without being saturated with details, their lives are shown in great detail as if they were real people. I believed it. And I feel pain almost as clearly as if it were my friends or myself.
I lower the score by a point, but only because I will not be able to show the film to friends or family: very personal.
9 out of 10
Because you know that everything you have, everything you are, is on your back!
I’ve never written a movie review, but this movie is still in my mind. I watched with translation, with subtitles, in the original language, but still can not find all the charm that bewitched me.
Probably a lot of actors and music, or maybe the script. It is a pity, of course, the whole truth does not open to us at the end of the film. What did Amber write in the notebook? Is Thayer alive? These questions have not given me an answer for a whole year.
The script is so real, so touching my understanding of the world that I as after watching the film could not understand what kind of feelings I overflow, and now I can not understand myself.
This film shows how simple people are, and how blind and stupid they are to walk away from their desires.
I know people who didn’t like the movie, but I can’t say that. It became my favorite movie in the blink of an eye, and I don’t think there’s going to be another one that will cause so much controversy in me.
10 out of 10
The music, the picture, the atmosphere: everything came together in a great film.
The other day I was looking for something to look away from idleness and finally get out of the decadent state, so to speak, to “boost” myself. I came across this seemingly “ordinary” film about school years, the difficulties of adolescence, relationships between people and social statuses that I never understood. This story could not leave my mind for a long time. And to be honest, I still think about everything in it.
This is the most sensitive film I have ever seen. And amazingly, without intimacy. The actors deserve the highest praise. As they say, this is rare these days.
Pain, heaviness, fear, despair, love – everything is so intertwined that it is understandable without any words; one look in which all experiences are burned out is enough. And it does not matter whether the person hides them under any masks, like Amber, or tries to hide them behind hooligan behavior, like Tyer.
Tayer. At first glance, he seems like a typical “bad guy” who has been in someone’s classroom (though I was confused by the scene where he drinks the blood of a dissected mumps), but until his home and family were shown in black and white. And then I felt very sorry for him, because inside is a vulnerable, kind, and thirsty soul. And Thayer’s poems are confirmation of this – there are no words with which I can describe them, they are so piercing and cut into consciousness that it remains only to understand and feel.
Amber I don't understand girls like that. What prevented her from telling him everything she felt about him? Social status? Status? That's crazy. The lowest that can put a person above the senses of true, real. It is a pity that not all people realize this. It’s easier to say “I hate you” than the truth; it’s easier to say “I don’t know what you’re talking about” than it is when they were in the theater. People like Amber themselves bury their happiness, and then bite their elbows when there is nothing to return.
Impressions after what I saw... To say that I am shocked is to say nothing. I could not imagine that this film would impress me so much, change my outlook and attitude towards people. Anguish, heaviness, despair - all that remained in my mind. So much unsaid, so many feelings and obstacles ... I breathe deeply the aroma of regret.
10 out of 10
Hear, let him hear. The seer, let him see. Feeling, let him feel.
This film shocked me to the core. I’ve watched it several times, which I never do, and I’m still trying to find a movie like this.
A lot of good things have been said about this film, and I don’t want to repeat it, I’ll say what I’m most excited about.
Thayer's poignant story of loneliness. I don't want to focus on Amber, she's not as remarkable to me as he is. It was his story that stuck in my soul, it was his poems that shocked my thoughts, and his life deserves attention. Amber is not a very colorful character for me - she may be lonely, but she is lying, fake, she prefers the environment of people like her - stupid, pathetic, plastic.
As long as you feel pain, you're alive, as long as you feel someone else's pain. Neither Amber nor anyone else felt Thayer's loneliness. The film shows the rudeness and indifference of the world that surrounds the main character. The cold and darkness around him. Pain, despair in the soul. And all his actions are like masks, blocking him from the outside world, the world that does not understand him. The extreme degree of alienation, hopelessness, appears before us in his poems. He writes harshly, desperately, shockingly. They don’t understand him (Amber didn’t like the ending about the brother who shoots him) but that’s the world that surrounds him. And there is no saving hand, no support ... but only "hit, repulse, capture, punch past, past, past again." He opens up in these classes, opens his heart and soul, but gets spitting back. He's alone. “Today I am drowning in a cold, black, deep, liquid night. Everything else is just blurry talking faces. They eat me, they beat me, they help me drown.
The piercing story of loneliness of a teenager is beautifully played by an actor.
It was a simple coincidence that I found out about this film. And I'm glad it happened.
The way the film starts gives me some clarity. Right away. I knew what was going to happen to the main characters. They will be dissected, studied and thrown away, and they will try to make sure that pieces of flesh do not clog the shell.
What's the movie about? The influence of people on each other. It's about what makes people happy. About what makes them suffer. About love.
I was impressed by Scott M. Foster. I didn’t expect that kind of dedication and energy given the dramatic nature of his character. (Oh, I was wrong) Thayer is special. Sincere, strong and passionate. He is madly in love, he is sick with love, literally obsessed. If such a person exists in your life, he changes it. He changes you.
At the beginning of the film, Thayer seemed disgusting to me, but as the plot developed, I began to understand him, to empathize with him. The atmosphere that he has at home. The way his classmates treat him. The way everyone looks at him and thinks they know him. Once again, you can never judge by the cover. I recognized Mangeris and fell in love.
Amber didn't seem as expressive to me. It’s more like a normal teenager. They are not given due attention by their parents. She cares too much about what others think. Only Thayer makes her special. Not a prince on a white horse, but a strange classmate. And the fact that she begins to fall in love with him frightens her. And Amber starts making mistakes.
Your image is sent to me by everyday death.
And day by day I can’t wait for my fate.
Now give me to the ground, my love.
Now put me to the ground.
Too bad Amber couldn't say what Thayer wanted to hear. But the main thing for me is that she was able to correct her mistakes. Death is fleeting, but love lasts forever. And the reminder of her love will forever remain in her life.
P.S. Finally, I would like to add a few words about the music – it’s perfect. Songs have already taken their rightful place in my playlist.
Honestly, I wasn’t going to watch any heavy movies, I was just thinking about relaxing in the company of some cute melodrama. But ... it didn't work out.
This film made me think that everything depends so much on the opinion of the majority, on your social status, the position you occupy in society. I wondered, could I give a green light to a feeling for someone like Thayer? Could I reciprocate? I just don't know, because I'm also addicted to a lot of social factors. These are two sides of the same coin.
Oh, my God, I hated Thayer! It was amazing, crazy, destroying all love. Amber felt it too, I'm sure. He just could, he didn't care about the majority, she didn't. That's all. They could have saved each other. This scene in the movie is so nerve-wracking, makes you go crazy and repeat in your thoughts only one thing: “Tell him that, come on!”
He was really sick and obsessed with her, all of his messages, everything he said in creative writing, it’s amazing, I can’t imagine how Amber could feel after such words.
No, this is definitely not a film for teenagers, this is a very adult and sharp film, which, if not forcing you to rethink some views on life, but makes you think.
Here she is, true love, let her bring pain, let her drive crazy, but she is, just the heroes could not cope with her.