Lets Have Some Throwback!...On a Friday

Now this isn't for class or anything but, I figured since I have a blog why not utilize it. So I am using today as a throwback day and I dug up one of my old reviews for ya'll to see. Enjoy!

Reviewer: Mikaela Porter

Silver Linings Playbook / 2012 / 8.1

Director/Studio: David O. Russell 

  The Weinstein Company/

              Mirage Enterprises

Box Office: Budget-$21,000,000

        Gross-$55,310,270

Genre: Dramatic Romance Comedy 

     This movie portrays how life can get really rough and it can do it quick. In this movie Russell gives us the message that you don’t have to go through life’s challenges alone, there will always be someone there with you. The characters are unfiltered, and are depicted as being truthful characters. The movie is about second chances and finding the silver lining of a situation.   The elements of mis en scene did a good job, the setting is in a small town and quaint like a drama would be so that it is relatable. The costumes were good and not over the top in any one part. With drama you can always tell that everything is serious when there is an over the shoulder back and forth shot with the camera with some serious dialogue but we also have some comedic aspects as well as in shots of the two of the together in shots with witty banter. 

     Critics generally like this movie. “It's a rom-com that succeeds in revitalizing that discredited genre where so many others have failed, injecting it with the grit and emotion of realist drama rather than with amped-up whimsy or social satire or montages of people walking on the beach.”-Andrew O’Hehir. I agree with this critic because it isn’t the stereotypical romance comedy that we get, it is genuine and most people can relate to. Other critics who don’t like the movie say mostly that the cast was not compatible. “A thoroughly annoying and staggeringly laughless quirkfest featuring the most alarmingly miscast role of 2012.”-Erick Weber. On the other hand I don’t necessarily disagree. The cast was a bit awkward to be together but I feel that it is the point. One critic said 

“The film’s dare-to-believe bandwagon is not entirely irresistible. What is impossible to ignore, though, is the acting juggernaut that is Jennifer Lawrence. Just 21 when the film was shot, the star of Winter’s Bone andThe Hunger Games still has a mercurial baby- faced softness that makes her fascinating to watch. Here, in her first real adult role and first comedy, she trades dialogue with Cooper with the snappy rhythms of a David Mamet play, and stares him down like a cobra ready to strike.”-Liam Lacey

and this is almost a perfect way to describe her role.

“SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK” starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Robert De Niro. Directed by David O. Russell. (R, 122 minutes) After being let out of a mental institution, Pat is in search of his ex-wife in order to win her back and to apologize for beating up  her lover that she was having an affair with. Things get complicated when Pat meets a girl named Tiffany who is also struggling with her past. This film is great because it is a movie about second chances and finding the silver lining in any situation no matter how grim it may be. It is a very relatable plot line and believable as well. The cast was a bit of misfits, but it could be tied into the mis en scene of the movie. ★★★★ Porter.