But who prays for
December 2011
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I haven't seen Young Adult yet, but I'm planning on seeing it in a couple days. In response to your rant, isn't it sometimes necessary to have bad, static characters? It's just that there are so many movies about someone who "finds the right way" and changes their life, but its unrealistic. Those movies ar necessary too but not everyone changes. I don't think the point is too romanticize a bad person, but to break up the monotony of unrealistic stories. Not everyone becomes a better person.
I understand this argument and many have taken this stance with me when discussing other movies I feel take the same flawed character study route (such as Raging Bull). My issue here is that there are ways to create a character that is inherently bad, but is still at least relatable. In this case, I feel like the film was a very gloomy and most unnecessarily boring without any redemptive features, even if just in her dialogue. I don’t feel like a feature film is the correct medium for static characters, but that is clearly my own personal opinion. I don’t understand why someone would write 90-120 pages about a person no one even likes. A short vignette (20-30 pages even) seems like a good length for a character study like this. If I wanted to watch a terrible person’s everyday life I could simply just go run into someone I dislike in real life and not pay $11. The character in this film, while being so terrible, didn’t even have any layers to her that made her interesting. Of course, this is still my opinion. I would never want my opinions to stop someone from seeing a film they may very well like and for the price the movies are these days I really do hope it turns out to be a film you enjoy. In addition to my long rant about the characters, I just found the scenes to be boring and the actual visual appeal of the film to be lackluster in comparison with Reitman’s other work.
I have taken numerous classes on writing the feature film and each one has stressed the idea of motion in the writing. Things need to keep moving. I just found that there was no motivation in this film and it bothered me to sit there and watch it without any payoff.
I just wanted to say that I totally agreed with what you had to say about "Young Adult." What a terrible person she was! I guess this isn't really a question, more like a comment. Sorry if that's weird, lol.
It isn’t weird! I love comments AND questions. I’m glad it wasn’t just me who hated her. I went with three friends and they were all disappointed as well. I just hate that I went to school for 3 1/2 years for film production and screenwriting to see that get a run in theaters.
