Like Crazy
2011 Directed by Drake Doremus
Synopsis
I Want You. I Need You. I Love You. I Miss You.
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
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About 30 minutes into this, I broke. Completely. And pretty much stayed in that state for the rest of the film.
A quiet, intense, honest, bitter and utterly heartbreaking look at love. Possibly the best movie I've seen in a long, long time. There are so many great things about it, so much that I loved. So many clever uses, fantastic performances, fantastic scenes.... I can't praise this movie enough. It's fantastic that even in our times, there are people capable of telling stories about love that actually feel fresh.
I loved it.
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I want a rewatch
I need a rewatch
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Sometimes I think that I’m just a heartless bastard who doesn’t know what it means to be loved. Then I watch films like Like Crazy and I realise that everyone else has just been blinded by the false and rather vulgar interpretation of love that society has deemed the norm. Don’t get me wrong, I have no objection to spontaneous displays of emotion, nor do I have a deep-seated distrust of people who claim that they are “madly in love” (madness, by the way, is a mental illness… just putting that out there), but I do tend to think that anyone who says they’ve found the love of their life should probably wait until…
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The movie that brought Felicity Jones into my life, for which I will be forever grateful.
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Going into a movie like this, you are expecting a sap story catering to young people about immature kids who are tough to sympathize for. And yes, Like Crazy has that, but it isn't nearly as sentimental as I expected it to be. In fact, considering the subject, Like Crazy crafts a respectably thorough story that feels genuine.
Most of the success of this goes to the script and editing, while the dialogue was reportedly improvised, most of it must have hit the cutting room floor as the movie is largely a series of reaction shots and close ups. The young cast does a great job expressing intimate feelings in a visual way so we can empathize with them, rather… -
Well made look at two students who fall hard for each other only to see distance and time a real bitch. Felicity Jones is pretty good here and Anton Yelchin supports her well enough. The film starts off quite strong, the happy bubble of the 'honeymoon' period. The director nails that feeling really well, lots of lingering, shallow depth-of-field photography. As time rolls on, the cracks start to appear. The ending is pretty sad and it might be all too honest for some people to handle but I think the filmmakers did the right thing.
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I really enjoy movies in which the problems of loving are just our day-to-day problems. That's, for me, the closest a film can get to bring it in to the real world.
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I really like when love is brought to the real world.
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I thought this was going to be a rom-com. Yeah, I was saved from that, but now I feel like shit.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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If you've ever been in a long distance relationship it'll surly hit home. If not for the crazy intimacy and chemistry between the leads this movie would feel incredibly redundant and instead remains a small but charming bookmark in modern romance films.
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I want a rewatch
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I'd love a rewatch
I already miss it... LIKE CRAZY! -
(i just wanted to put a tag dont make me write a review)
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Two lessons learnt: Don't fuck with the INS; Felicity Jones is devastating. God, I chocked up.
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Admito que no entendía algunas partes, pero sin duda es una historia de amor que a toda chica le encantaría ver, young love.