This is the Christy pick for January and it's a wildly different beast than her usual fare.Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a very troubled freshman. He wants to be liked but has no idea how to go about talking to people. Finally, he strikes up a conversation with an outgoing senior, Patrick (Ezra Miller), who introduces him to the outside world and more importantly to his step-sister, Sam (Emma Watson). Charlie falls head-over-heels for Sam but is unable to show her the depths of his feelings without bringing up his past trauma.
This is an excellent film about depression and broken people. As a coming-of-age tale, I'm not sure that it's totally relevant. That could be because my high school experience was completely different. Ezra Miller was the stand-out performance here. He showed a lot of versatility that will serve him well as his career progresses.
This is a thoughtful film that gently peels back the layers of hurt surrounding a damaged psyche. At its heart, this is a movie about pain. The pain of loneliness, of long-festered wrongs that can never be righted, of injustice, of frustration in seeing another suffer knowing that you can do nothing, even the pain of freedom for to be truly free is to face the world without a safety net.
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