Directed by: James Ponsoldt
Screenplay by: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
It's a coming-of-age film in the disguise of a love story. It's the story of two characters, Sutter and Aimee, who start seeing each other but the story has very less to do with the relationship. Aimee is naive, she's not polluted as yet and it's interesting because you keep wondering the same way Sutter keeps wondering, if she's really kind and nice or simply naive. Nevertheless, it's definitely endearing to see a character like this. Though niceness is not enough, it's definitely one of the basics and characters like this definitely remind us about how it feels to be around people who are nice and kind. Through the events that happen in the film, we see life happening to her. Her first boyfriend, losing her virginity, her standing up to her parents, fights with the boyfriend. Shailene Woodley, the actor who played Aimee, has it in her: just her eyes and her face makes you go 'aww'! How can you not be dazzled by her innocence?
Coming to Sutter, he's a easy going, fun loving guy. He meets Aimee, and after a pact, he decides to meet his father and confront his past. We see some self sabotaging tendencies of his that come from his father - he fucks up a really good relationship because he just thinks he's not good enough for her. We see some self fulfilling prophecy coming into play. You think you are not good enough, and you end up making choices that make you worse. If he just thought he was worthy of Aimee's love, he would've not fucked it up. I enjoyed the film for how it's a coming-of-age story of two people, I just wished the film had more intersection with both the characters' lives than what it has now. So right now, I don't think it's really a love story, simply because their roles in each others' lives in this story is not as much. Nevertheless, it's always endearing to watch a good coming-of-age film and I absolutely loved the ending reaction shot of Aimee, when she sees Sutter again.
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