Oct 5, 2009 5
How… how about n-n-never?
I’m so happy I’m through with this movie, ‘coz really, it’s the worst shit I’ve ever watched in my entire life. You are openly warned, though, that I can be a hypocrite sometimes. I will try to sum it up without using any harsh words, but prepare for my rantings.
It’s about a stuttering guy…
No, it’s teenage life at its…
Fine, according to Wikipedia: “It tells the story of Hal Hefner, a fifteen-year-old stutterer who decides to join his school’s debate team when he develops a crush on its star member, and addresses the themes of coming-of-age, sexuality and finding one’s voice.”
The entire stuttering of Hal is just perfectly irritating to ruin your mood, period. Should we consider it the conflict of the story, it seems to me that it covered the entire length of the movie, right until the last breath of it. Even emotionally excruciating is the fact that the conflict wasn’t even resolved for chrissake. So how’s that for a movie?!
I take it to a point of considering the speech defect; I must have been quite considerate to sense that I’m acting very apathetic since I’m not a stutterer (of course I stutter at my Speech Communication class, but not to the point of extending a usual “hello, can I talk to Virginia?” on the phone for three minutes!). Okay, so he’s a stutterer, and he was lured by this hot chick to join the debate team (hot chick had a plan, though)!
He didn’t even win! He couldn’t even say the affirmative stand!
This shit is bafflingly depressing.
The acting, though, is very convincing. :D No arguments about that. You could just feel him.
I have no idea what’s wrong with me but I’m making a really big deal out of this movie. It’s such a total waste of time knowing that Hal wouldn’t even improve–in any kind of degree, I’m telling you. The entire movie wouldn’t even listen if ever you did pray novenas. It’s so unconventional (not that I am conventional) not to even feature something happy, something to lighten up the mood! Every movie has its own ups and downs, but this one?!?
None.
Hal’s parents split up at the start of the movie. The second affair–this time, with a Korean guy, still didn’t work out. Everything’s screwed up.
What the movie reviews are saying is that it encapsulates teenage life; Hal had to find his voice–which he couldn’t! (of course they mean it figuratively)–throughout the length of the movie. My verdict is that the movie should have seen the good old days of High School. Its vision is too dim, too bleak to even be considered something uplifting by some reviewers, not even encouraging at all, not even something!
Pardon me for this rant but this is a sorry movie about a stutterer-slash-loser who couldn’t–through the help of everyone–cure himself. This is just madness; it’s not even very justifying of the movie to be THAT depressing just because teenage life is morally depressing, and that it is where some people reach the lowest points of their lives.
Rocket science, my ass.
