Silver Linings Playbook - 8.5
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At first I was annoyed by the characters, the whole script seemed so disconnected from reality, and the way it was filmed made me dizzy... I suddenly started feeling anxious. Just when I was about to give up on it, the strange world of David O. Russel settled in and became real. I don't know exactly when it happened, but afterwards the feeling of anxiety vanished and a curiosity for what will happen took over.
Brilliant acting, it all seemed to make sense once you get the hang of it, and the main characters, complex and disturbed, started to become loveable. Jennifer Lawrence is just a natural in my opinion, she made it look so easy... Bradley put more thought into it but nevertheless did a great job.
And then I couldn't help but compare it to I Heart Huckabees. I tried to watch that movie before and after Silver Linings, but just couldn't. O. Russel lost the rhythm in that one, because his peculiar world never became real to me, and that is why I stopped at some point and just couldn't watch it any more, totally annoyed because of the time I lost by trying to connect and not getting anything out of it. And what he missed there, worked just like magic in this unusual love story.
So it all fits and the amount of strangeness constitutes the salt and pepper which makes this movie an instant classic. And it is the type of film which you can watch over and over again :)
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