A teen movie

Rating: 5/10 (21 September 2014)

The trailer let me think it will be foolish. But in my seat, I feel a serious tone, very relevant sometimes. I like the film, of course, the movie introduces some nice classical musics, and rock as well ; yet I'll try to express some reserves. Despite really relevant performances of all actors (and more notably, the grandfather's monologue), I feel some disturbances between the actors. Mia and Adam are expected to be in love with each others, but their lines of dialogs seem to me that they are put end to end; and not shared. Concerning the dialogs, they are good, but they could have been deeper, more intense (I think of "Blue is the warmest color"). The scenario is interesting however. One can reproach the blurred circumstances of the accident, but it was a necessity for the plot. Though the dialectic of "does she have to stay or not?" is weak, the development of characters are successfully managed, the love story is believable. I think the best achievement is the montage. If the story was told chronologically, it would have been quite boring. But the way the story is told in the movie adduces elements regularly, we can rebuilt the whole plot and I was never bored, and for instance, the flashbacks are logically brought. I really appreciate Chloë Grace Moretz since "Kick ass", and I expect a lot of her, like some mind-blowing performances. But I find her just good, not perfect. And I can only complain on the fact that she plays in a lot of movie, maybe to many to prepare her role at the best. I like the movie for what it is. And without the objections I underlined in this review, it would have been a masterpiece, and not just a teen love movie.