I took a break from watching this about halfway in. It looks pretty good streaming in 4K HDR. It's a strange film though, which in one way means that I like it, and in another way it means I don't. I can say this much: the cast is amazing! There are no darling Hollywood-pretties in this film. At least on that level, it's a dose of reality. Okay, off to watch the second half. (11:14pm) (12:28am) Eh, it was okay. They didn't have to tell the story in several different ways to get to the point. I'm glad I watched it, though. In the end, is this love, or a celebration of dating a minor?
I think the film views maturity outside of age, which is obviously very dodgy but helps it make sense. Traumatic events keep happening to both of them and they're always there for each other.
The first time I saw it, my brain kinda shut down from the overload. The second time I saw it, it really started to make sense; the subtleties and whatnot: alluding to Old Hollywood screwball comedies to set up their relationship, showing the complexities of age dynamics, etc.
actually the entire movie...I enjoyed the relationship! I really can't say there were any parts that turned me off...I loved her...yours?
Having seen it twice, the Sean Penn part really stuck with me better. Anderson shows but doesn't tell so masterfully, he can imply an entire life in just a few minutes. I also loved the Haim family scenes "excuse me?"
I laughed my ass off on that! he's speaking in Japanese phrasing in English OMG! loved it...my wife loved that part as well...
what they lacked in age was made up by their intelligence level of which IMO were equal...they really worked well off each other.
Exactly, they push each other to be better "adults" as the film goes on to the point where they go from high school photographer's assistant and child actor to mayoral candidate employee and business owner
how about the scene "Show me your breasts"...NO! then she decides to show him... after seeing them he replies "Can I touch them"? SMACK! priceless...hysterical!
In the sense that it's illegal, sure it makes sense. US law doesn't consider maturity. It's only concerned with the line in the sand. That's probably the way it should be, because who's going to protect the immature? I enjoyed the movie (especially the refreshing cast), but after I finished watching, the first thing that crossed my mind was, What if the guy was 25 and the female 15? This would be a totally different thread.
PTA fan, but upon first watch didn't care for it. Some good sequences , but nothing that really interested me. It all seemed sort of... pointless. I won't write it off yet, though, as I didn't like "Inherent Vice" at first either. But then I found that I kept thinking about certain sequences and watched it again. Then again. And then I started liking it.
My second favourite PTA film after another viewing...not really made for the folks who find There Will Be Blood to be some kind of masterpiece (lol). I have trouble with most contemporary films set in 60s/70s/80s but this one hit all the right notes for me...although this continually distracted me from its rom-com chassis until the last ten minutes or so. The fact that Anderson can draw hilarious and memorable performances out of the featured big-name 'cameo' players whose work I usually despise (Sean Penn, and Bradley Cooper) shows Anderson as a director who has truly mastered his art.
I watched this movie on one of my recent long plane trips. It did not grab me. I wanted it to. I should be the prime audience, as I went to high school in the Valley, not too far from the timeframe of the movie. I liked certain scenes. But, to me, the characters were not compelling enough and the story was not compelling enough. Quirky and at points interesting, but not compelling. By the end, I didn't really care that much what happened to anyone. (And, as an aside, who has a plot point be opening a pinball arcade without actually showing any of the machines? That just seemed cheap (let's not bother with the cost of getting the right machines for the time frame)).