I am well aware this may make me a complete girl, but the book was amazing, and I love Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams. And well, I loved the book. OMGOMGOMG.
Won’t someone please take me to see this girlish romance when it comes out?
I was thoroughly bummed we missed this movie when it came out in theatres. We had seen the poster, and waited, and waited. And then one day, we found we’d missed it. Well, it was FINALLY released on video and the four of us decided to sit down at watch it tonight. I enjoyed it, it wasn’t about what I thought it was going to be about, but it was fabulous non-the-less. I haven’t had a chance to read the book, but it’s certainly something wroth looking into. I really enjoyed the realistic relationships in this movie; the dialogue was great, specifically between the two characters Barris and Luckman. The film takes place nine years in the future, where the drug Substance D has grown out of control, and for a synopsis- I will stop there. For anyone who enjoyed Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, or Pi.
Manic is a movie for those who truly care about the craft of film, about collaborative and creative skill that can come from a work of the heart, about humanity’s relief from suffering, and compassionate answers for otherwise seemingly unsolvable problems. The documentary style filming had an intense effect on the “realistic” feeling of it all. There wasn’t a soul working on this film who did not produce brilliant, genuinely communicative work that demonstrates exactly what the art of filmmaking is at its very best. And it was only the very clear and obvious display of such tight creative genius at work that kept reminding me that this was actually a film instead of real life recorded at an institution by an inmate with an ever-intrusive video camera. For all these reasons, I highly recommend this film.
