I wish it could affect me like it has many others

Rating: 7/10 (12 November 2012)

Although "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" was a very good film, there's just too big of a rift between the relatability that it invites and the unbelievability it presents for me to consider it "the defining picture of today."
Archetypes too typical, occasional scoff-worthy dialogue, and misspent character traits bog it down from god-tier. And some of the directing/ editing choices didn't help.
I liked it, to be sure, but I've BEEN THERE (a sentiment the story is designed to evoke from everybody) and it /still/ hardly moves me.
I get bothered not because the movie was sad but because the movie should have been sad to me and my un-tugged heartstrings really upset me when so much earnest effort is put into it without significant result.