← Back to Reviews
in
The final film in our break up theme and one that felt pretty genuine. The set-up with these two getting together felt natural and helped the viewer feel something for them when things start to get tough. Felicity Jones plays a student who is in the states on a student visa, she falls for another student and they spent some quality time together. When it's time for her to move back to the UK, she decides to stay for the summer, thus violating her student visa. She eventually does return home for a bit and then when she plans to return to see the love of her life, she is denied. They try their best to make the long-distance relationship work, but it can be tough.
Watching this film, for the second time, I still feel lukewarm towards it. The entire thing could have been avoided had she just went back home because the wait time would have been two months. Seems pretty simple, but young love, right? I can't help but feel that these two are forcing themselves to love each other. Are they perfect for one another? Who knows? Yelchin's character starts to see an employee played by Jennifer Lawrence and they do seem like a good pair, yet he is willing to drop her like a bad habit when the thought of being with Jones comes back. These two characters treat others in their relationships like garbage, unintentionally of course.
Is a summer fling enough of a love that you're willing to ignore and sabotage other things in your life to try and make it work? Like Crazy asks those questions and ends on a "Graduate" type ending that makes you wonder if everything they went through was worth it.
Like Crazy
Theme: Break-up films.
Theme: Break-up films.
The final film in our break up theme and one that felt pretty genuine. The set-up with these two getting together felt natural and helped the viewer feel something for them when things start to get tough. Felicity Jones plays a student who is in the states on a student visa, she falls for another student and they spent some quality time together. When it's time for her to move back to the UK, she decides to stay for the summer, thus violating her student visa. She eventually does return home for a bit and then when she plans to return to see the love of her life, she is denied. They try their best to make the long-distance relationship work, but it can be tough.
Watching this film, for the second time, I still feel lukewarm towards it. The entire thing could have been avoided had she just went back home because the wait time would have been two months. Seems pretty simple, but young love, right? I can't help but feel that these two are forcing themselves to love each other. Are they perfect for one another? Who knows? Yelchin's character starts to see an employee played by Jennifer Lawrence and they do seem like a good pair, yet he is willing to drop her like a bad habit when the thought of being with Jones comes back. These two characters treat others in their relationships like garbage, unintentionally of course.
Is a summer fling enough of a love that you're willing to ignore and sabotage other things in your life to try and make it work? Like Crazy asks those questions and ends on a "Graduate" type ending that makes you wonder if everything they went through was worth it.