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So I recently watched Silver Linings Playbook. It's supposedly a good movie but I don't get what all the buzz is about. I mean it's not a bad film. It just didn't leave me breathless or impressed or moved or depressed or disturbed or anything. Maybe it's because I saw it after watching "Les Miserables", "The Hobbit" and "Life of Pi", which were all synaesthetic smorgasbords.
I assume the book is better. I'm curious about it of course, but er... I've sort of put a restraining order on myself to keep away from purchasing books, after having spent about $50 on used books fairly recently :p (What can I say? I love reading, and used books at less than two dollars each are an excellent bargain! Of course it doesn't seem so "excellent" now that I see how many books I need to plastic-wrap and find shelf space for. And shelf space happens to be a rare commodity in our household, because we're all readers here). So Silver Linings the novel will just have to wait ... until I'm no longer feeling so guilty. :p
Besides, I don't want to be one of those people who read the book because of the movie. Although I already am. :/
Okay. So Bradley Cooper played a bipolar in there. He supposedly got a best actor nomination. Again, I don't see why - his acting was good, but it just wasn't phenomenal (Good thing he didn't win - Hugh Jackman did, and he really deserved it, me thinks). I'm not sure he was able to portray bipolarity - it was all just stereotypical bursts of mania and bouts of idiocy. I really hate how the film kept referring to it as an "illness" or "crazy". Fook that. Morbid misrepresentation.
Jennifer Lawrence was OK as a depressed chick though. Still, I don't think it was an Oscar-worthy performance, i.e., outstanding enough to trump the likes of Meryl Streep. Meh, maybe I just didn't pay enough attention because she was too pretty.
But maybe the characters were more interesting and less two-dimensional in the book?
Now I really want to read the book. -_- Maybe I can get ahold of one without having to buy it? :/ Anyone willing to lend it? I'll only take a week or less - or maybe two if I find it boring - I promise I'll give it back as soon as I'm done.
