Stuck in Movie "Stuck in Love" (I'm still high)

Stuck in Love

In the late months of 2014, on a December, I saw this movie on YouTube. It's a movie by Nat Wolff, Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Kristen Bell, and Liana Liberato. It was literally about being 'stuck' in love. They were all stoned.

I'm going to share how this movie moved me. When I watched this first, I wasn't able to understand what they were smoking, why ye guys behaved like that, then I watched this again as I downloaded the movie in a computer shop. Then I learned that this was an Indie Film. I researched about this movie to understand what it says, more than what it showed.

Late when I realized that what Nat and Lily was smoking at the rooftop are weeds. They were smoking marijuana while talking about realists and hopeless romantics. Lily didn't believe in love, while Nat Wolff, the teenage idealist, believes so that love exists because she's always stuck with staring at the beautiful face of Kate.

Romantics, romantic... Brings me the thought about Taylor Swift's song New Romantics, with the lyrics, "Can you come along with me? Heartbreak is the National Anthem." Yea, I admit, she's a real good lyricist.

Lily is a cynical person, she writes about sex, she's getting her experiences with whoever she wants, discuss all those things about religion to a guy who believes in God so much. That scene was very funny. I encounter such too, when I'm talking about something and they get it differently. Because the others think systematically, like, hello light headed people!

Just want to comment on the stars of this movie, they were all my favorite. I was so glad seeing Greg in "Heaven is for Real," Liana in "The Best of Me," Lily Collins in "Mortal Instruments," Kristen Bell in her "When in Rome," also one of my favorites, Nat Wolff in "Behaving Badly" with Selena Gomez! I'm a movie addict just so you know. :)

And every time I see a Stephen King book, I jump in, like a whining dog or a very happy kid, it's like the movie scenes are coming back to me. And when I surf the internet, teh first time i heard about an online publisher, Scribner.com, yiii I was so excited!

It was a cool movie, to me, it was a very brilliant indie film by Josh Boone. I have searched this director and I think he really is into books, like Paper Towns of John Green. If I'm not mistaken, he took part in it, maybe as a director or something very nice as well. 

What fascinated me about this film is the characters who are writers. The family of Lily as 'Sam' (Nat's sister), Greg (father of Rusty and Sam), Liana as 'Kate' who has a drug problem (Rusty's girlfriend) and Logan Lerman as 'Lue' who was crazily in love with Lily. 

Lily was a novel writer there and pursuing a degree in fiction writing, Lue takes the same thing, she published a book, but when her father learned that she was not publishing the book "Just Saying Hi" to which he has given his expertise in checking book manuscripts, he was upset. George was divorced to his wife and Lily hates her mother because she thought Greg was cheated. But then, at the end, it was all Greg's fault, Sam fell in love with Lue, thought that the love he has for her was true when he stayed there with her, in the car, playing the Elliot Smith's "Between the Bars."

Sam didn't want to get hurt by people. She does not trust them. A bit skeptical.

And Nat as 'Rusty', who loved Kate so much has put her away from drugs and all the vices, she was more expert than him in bed, but she was put in a rehab after what happened in his sister's book release. 'Kate' was too drunk, picked up by a guy she knew because of drugs, they rescued her and was put in a rehab.

Now, the mom and dad thing, Greg and his wife, reunited in a Christmas eve.
Moreover, I liked the musical scoring, it matched the emotions in the scenes and the people in it, the situation being showed.

I heard the names of Stephen King and Bob Dylan in the movie and they were great writers. 

I wish I could read Stephen King's novel about John F. Kennedy's assassination too. I saw this book went on sale in SM Baguio but I was unable to get it because I bought Nora Roberts' first.

Praise to Josh Boone for this film, it mirrored the life that teenagers are living, the dramas in a family, the love that grows in time. I have learned a lot, this is my first favorite movie.

This also inspired me to write more on my blog, share my experiences to everyone, update my journal everyday, create websites that talk about love, fashion, gangsters, life, realizations, passion, interests, etc.

"It take experience to be a good writer." So I went out to get some of mine. All the different things a young lady would have done, because I think I've been missing a lot. One escape is music, I also did skipping schedules, testing my brain if it could go with the flow, watched bands play, write lyrics from time to time just so I stay creative.

I could possibly write about a thriller, romantic series, my life, my journey, the people who I spend time with.

And as I watch this movie, I smile, like every scene is new to me. Because this movie for me is timeless. I have let the closest people to me watch this. Shaira, my best girl buddy watched this and she said she liked it. The characters made it so good, Carlo, my suitor then, now my boyfriend, said he likes it very much too.

 So I thought, maybe I was right. That this movie is really really worth watching over and over again!

"I remember that it hurt, looking t her hurt." 

This is Rusty's line while looking at 'Kate' sleeping in their literature class. Gosh I love literature, maybe one day I'll pursue this :) And when one guy would look at me like that, the music just plays in my head like I too am is in the scene.

Alliteration, hyperbole, simile, prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, novels, films. These are my pleasure. I loved our literature classes with two of the most creative teachers, sir Jan Rich Guira and Mark Fernandez. They pushed me to write more, and analyze literary pieces, deconstruction, reader-response, beyond the world criticism, realist. Also, I loved philosophy, associate my attitude to a stoic, cynical person. I didn't believe in love too until I was struck by the misery of this talented and sensible person. In short, he's not boring because he can talk to me about anything.

This has let me grow, independently. Just looking back and now, I'm ready to push a writing career whether in fiction or non-fiction, be involved in a production or act in it.

I'm stuck watching this movie and I'm stuck thinking of growing, independently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H63f7g7ETRI (click this if you want to watch)