BEFORE
I FALL 2.8***
A great look at
today's teen youth, which at first is mainly about the negatives. It quickly
moves into something more serious as it tackles the question of what would you
do if you thought you only had one day to live and that day keeps repeating? In
a way this is similar to the classic Groundhog Day, but has more drama and very
little comedy. Ultimately this is a film teens and over should see if you're
serious about discovering what's really important in life.
It’s a mystery-drama based on the popular 2010
Young Adult novel, of the same name, by Lauren Oliver. It tells the story of a
high school senior who discovers she's reliving the last day of her life, over
and over again, apparently until she can figure out what she needs to do to
make things right. The film stars Zoey Deutch with, believe or not, Jennifer
Beals, playing the mother. The film has received mostly positive reviews, from
critics and fans alike.
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Samantha Kingston (Deutch) is a popular high school senior, who’s planning to lose her virginity on the night of Cupid's Day. She goes with her “mean friends” (and she is too) to a wild party that night, skips the sex ( the guy gets too drunk) and then dies in a car accident with her other popular friends. The next day she wakes up to find out she's reliving the same exact day, and then the next several days she keeps waking up to find out the same exact thing. Samantha slowly realizes that she needs to set things right, in her life and with those of her friends in that repeating day in order to hopefully change things finally.
The movie is surprisingly insightful in dealing with high school life and the dynamics of being popular verses being an outcast or the object of bullying. It's something the flawed main character has to learn, and then better herself by learning, in order to finally set things right. This movie has a moving, message about how we treat others (and how we should treat them).
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Samantha Kingston (Deutch) is a popular high school senior, who’s planning to lose her virginity on the night of Cupid's Day. She goes with her “mean friends” (and she is too) to a wild party that night, skips the sex ( the guy gets too drunk) and then dies in a car accident with her other popular friends. The next day she wakes up to find out she's reliving the same exact day, and then the next several days she keeps waking up to find out the same exact thing. Samantha slowly realizes that she needs to set things right, in her life and with those of her friends in that repeating day in order to hopefully change things finally.
The movie is surprisingly insightful in dealing with high school life and the dynamics of being popular verses being an outcast or the object of bullying. It's something the flawed main character has to learn, and then better herself by learning, in order to finally set things right. This movie has a moving, message about how we treat others (and how we should treat them).
Rated PG-13 for mature audiences for content involving drinking,
sexuality, bullying, some violent images, and some language all involving
teens.
Clark
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