Not A Let Down

Rating: 10/10 (4 May 2013)

Before I even begin on the performances, this movie paid attention to the small details, helping to create a captivating story that almost brought my first movie tear. Things like transitioning from a still shot to stedi-cam so smoothly because it's motivated by a character movement. The way the story line takes you in and out of healthy and unhealthy, stable and unstable, and for someone experiencing this for the first time, until the Hollywood ending, you can't really tell what is going to happen next. Diving into the tender topics of bi-polar disease, gambling, domestic abuse and all of the things people try not to talk about at the dinner table. Then to compliment it all, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence each with a pair of grand slam home runs in the bottom of the ninth. Cooper honestly made me frustrated he played his role so well; At one moment he's good and "cured" then next he's still obsessing and believing things are going to happen that aren't and it is so beautifully photographed, it takes you in and doesn't let you turn your head away, brilliant film.