The Spectacular Now (2013) 8/10

Starring : Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson
Director : James Ponsoldt
Running Time : 96 mins

Teenager Sutter Keely (Teller) has no plans for his future and simply lives in the present with his girlfriend Cassidy (Larson), but when she breaks up with him he turns to alcohol to cope. After a drunken night he wakes up lying on someone’s lawn and meets Aimee Finecky (Woodley), a girl who is his complete opposite; driven, intelligent, and with a future. He decides to spend some time with Aimee, and they start hanging out, but he is unable to see how dating her just for a short while could affect her feelings in the future.

The characters in this movie actually do feel realistic, with Sutter’s inability to know when he is being hurtful due to his habit of living in the now. The story does meander a little, and I did think at one point that there would be no conclusion, but the blunt ending, although abrupt, does give some closure at least to how Sutter’s personality has developed through the movie thanks in part to Aimee.

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