Highly Recommend

Rating: Null/10 (8 March 2013)

I won't give you a long drawn out summary of the movie - you can read other reviews or the actual summary on IMDb if you want that. However, I will say that even though I am a huge fan of Jennifer Lawrence, I expected 'Silver Linings Playbook' to be just like all of the current mush - a fried egg completely raw on one side and burnt black on the other - over-driven, yet underdeveloped, marketed as a drama to hook viewers sick of what now qualifies as a classic chick-flick.
However, I was wrong, thank goodness. This is the movie that should be used as the playbook for all future romantic/drama films. They actually hold off on the sex scenes, instead of trying to fast track your attachment to them - developing the characters themselves and the relationships between the characters emotionally and psychologically. The issues addressed, how the characters handle them and how they are eventually resolved, for me, all echoed of real life silver linings. I am not going to say that you are going to walk away feeling like you've been rammed in the gut - you won't, because this isn't a 'demanding' movie, by any stretch of the imagination. But it is an echo, as if you yelled your life into a canyon, and something like your voice came back, except a bit more warbly and little less clear.
I was left with this lingering feeling of relief, as if the different complicated aspects of life are not so black and white, but at the same time, aren't so gray, either, as morality-mongers and Hollywood would have us believe.
I was sick of watching movies where the characters find true love in the first 20minutes of the film and then have sex as acknowledgment that this is their true love, all the while pretending it's just a fling and the sex meant nothing. I was sick of knowing that the the next 40minutes of the film would focus solely on those same characters running away from each other, while the meaningless (separate) drivel of their (individual) lives is portrayed, as if that would make them deeper to the audience, and and finally, ending up together because 'they just can't be apart', despite the fact that during the movie they learned absolutely nothing personal about each other (apart from sex).
If you are sick of this kind of over-done/under-done movie, then 'Silver Linings Playbook' is for you. Even if you aren't sick of such movies, 'Silver Linings Playbook'is still for you, because you will still love it and in fact, it may even serve as an eye-opener.