Paper problems in “Paper cities” ...
High School student Quentin lives next door to charming Margot Roth Spiegelman. Needless to say, the guy is hopelessly in love with Margo from a very young age?
Do you remember a friend / childhood friend with whom you don’t communicate now, due to some circumstances? Remember how it was when the "trees were tall": children's pranks, playful laughter and unique emotions. But why is the childhood friendship crumbling? In my opinion, we grow, our character and principles are transformed and often we become different people. And yet, it is not a secret to anyone that children and teenagers tend to idealize their favorite people, be it a friend, idol, or mate.
It was this idealization that occurred with the main character of the painting “Paper Cities” by Quentin. He idealized his childhood love and brought it into a more conscious life. Margot, so eccentric and mischievous, became the embodiment of his desires, which he did not dare to voice even to himself. One crazy night in the company of Margot, when they "took revenge" on her offenders, awakened in Quentin a desire to breathe deeply and live for today.
The teenage melodrama with a light hint of detective seemed a bit boring to me. The main sign: if while watching you are distracted by the phone, then the film is so-so. I have not had a love with "Paper Cities". Perhaps the reason lies in the fact that I did not read the book of the same name, which made this film and therefore did not feel the necessary atmosphere of rebellion. Director Jake Schreier and the screenwriters, led by the writer John Green, brought to us on the platter all the classic problems of adolescents: here you are and a beauty that no one takes seriously; boy nerd - squeezed and constrained; a girl running away from a dull reality in a desperate attempt to find herself; a teenager who has difficulty in communicating with the opposite sex because of old children's and not very funny jokes that have turned him into a ridicule.
Every character here carries some kind of inner pain, like every teenager on this planet. We all once look for ourselves, and, at best, find; hesitate, complex, suffer from indecision, etc.
The problem is that with such a wide range of problems, I did not see the zest. All the characters of "Paper Cities" seemed to me just paper. I was not interested in what happened to Margo, and even more so, I was not satisfied with the final. It seems that everything is somehow even instructive in places, calls for action, but at the same time, it does not touch at all. If Nat Wolfe, whom I still remember well from “Guilty Stars” and seems sweet, then Cara Delevingne, in my opinion, did not draw out this role. There were not enough riddles in it: in my opinion, an ordinary “problem” girl, of whom there are thousands. I did not see in her what Quentin supposedly saw in her.
Typically teenage melodrama, suitable only for the audience, no older than 18 years old with a fairly decent soundtrack, (which only costs Santigold and Vampire Weekend) but (personally for me!) With unprincipled content.
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