The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age film and novel both written and directed by Stephen Chbosky .

Charlie (Logan Lerman) is starting his first year of high school and his first friend is his English teacher who he become very close to and is always assigning Charlie books and giving him projects because Charlie wants to become a writer. Charlie then becomes friend with Patrick (Ezra Miller) who then introduces Charlie to his sister Sam (Emma Watson) Patrick and Sam then introduce Charlie to their friends. Charlie soon falls in love with Sam but she has a boyfriend who is in college accidently gets himself into a relationship with one of their friends. The boy Patrick is secretly dating makes fun of Patrick in front of his friend because he doesn't want them to know he is gay. Sam finds out that her boyfriend has been cheating on her, Charlie breaks up with his girlfriend and Charlie's sister's boyfriend hit her. Sam asks Charlie why is it that she and everyone around her pick people who treat them like they are nothing and he replies " We accept the love we think we deserve" Later on we find out that Charlie's aunt who had passed away and Charlie loved dearly had sexualy abused Charlie when he was younger and that might be the reason why he is the way he is, whenever a girl tried to touch him sexually he would freak out. Throughout the entire book and film Charlie is writing to an anonymous person who is never revealed. Charlie started out his first day of high school thinking he wouldn't fit in but he realized that he fit in perfectly in a group of misfits.

I love this film as much as I love book which I've read about three times and watched the film over five times. I loved the vibe throughout the entire film. I think what get's the viewers wanting to watch and read more is the way Charlie acts in the film how he's so closed and shy and it makes you just want to figure out why he is the way he is. I would love it is my film had something like that to drag my viewers in and have them wanting more.

Blue Valentine

Blue Valentine is a romantic film written and directed by Derek Cianfrance. This film shows the life of a married couple Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) going back to when they first met and got married to years later when Dean is fighting for the love that isn't there anymore. 

Dean and Cindy meet in a home while Dean is helping an old man move into one of the rooms and he notices Cindy in one of the other rooms with her grandmother. He asks her out, but she denies him. A few days later he notices that he had kept the old mans necklace with a picture of his wife so he goes back to the home to return it and finds out he had passed away. On his way home on the bus he notices Cindy once again and even though she continues to deny him they end up spending the whole night together, getting to know each other. Cindy and Dean then are forced to rush into marriage when she finds out that she is pregnant from her ex-boyfriend. Dean tells her that he will be responsible for the child that is not his. Years later the film shows the couple with their five year old daughter which Dean has an amazing relationship with. Dean tells Cindy that they need a vacation to they go to a motel where it is very obvious that Cindy does not love Dean anymore but he still wants to fight for what they used to have not only for them but for their daughter also. Towards the end of the film Cindy makes it  very clear to Dean that she does not want to be with him anymore and wants a divorce. 

One of the reasons why I like this film is because it's not like most romantic films. It doesn't have a happy ending and doesn't have a perfect couple or most things that other films have. It shows something that many people go through, which is rushing into marriage with out thinking about the future, or losing the love you once had for someone. It's not an ordinary romantic film. I like the way the film first starts off in the future, goes back to the past, and then ends with them in the future once again. I think that's something I would like to do with the film that I am currently making. 

Into the Wild

 Into the Wild is a biographical drama film directed by Sean Penn This film was an adaption from the non-fiction book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Both the book and the film were based on the travels of Christiopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) across North America and the time he spent in the Alaskan wilderness. 

After Christoper McCandless graduates college he decides he wants to go on a trip to Alaska. But not just take a plane there. He destroyed all of his credit cards, identification records  and donated all of his savings, 24,000 dollars to Oxfam. Since he doesn't have any record of who he is he names himself Alexander Supertramp. He drives off in his car without telling his family nor his friends. But his car doesn't last him long so he ends up having to hitch hick through out his entire trip to Alaska. Through out this trip Alexander Supertramp meets a numerous amount of amazing people and gets to try new things. In Northern California he meets a hippie couple which he stays with for a while. In South Dakota he works for a contract harvesting company, and becomes very good friend with the owner of the company. Alexander then arrives at the Colorado River and then kayaks down the river until he arrives in Mexico. In Salton City, California he meets an old man who served in the US Army. The man is an amateur leather worker. He teaches Alexander the craft of leather work and so Alexander made a belt with details of his adventure. Alexander then leaves the old mans home and finds an abandon bus Alaska in which he spends most of his time with trying to survive by hunting animals, and anything he can get his hands on. Alexander had a book that stated which berries were good and which were bad. He didn't notice that one day he ate a berry that was slowly killing his insides, and a few days after he dies in his abandon bus staring at the sun in Alaska. 

This is by far one of my favorite films ever. I love how daring he is and how he burned everything he had so he was basically non existent to the world; It seemed like that's how he felt about himself. Like if he didn't know who he was so he had to go on this adventure to find out who he is. When ever i see this film I sort of want to pack my bags and just go on an adventure. That's what I want people to feel when they watch my film, like they want to go out there and do some graffiti art and show people that there is a difference between graffiti and graffiti art.