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Watch It's Kind of a Funny Story Online, a sixteen yr-old boy named Craig (Keir Gilchrist) leads to a New York City mental ward. He tells the admitting docs he's suicidal, however actually, he's more pre-suicidal, casting round for a dramatic manner out of his quite un-dramatic teenaged problems (getting into a top faculty, having a girlfriend). Once inside, he realizes he doesn't need to be there in any respect - "I believed you guys might do one thing fast" he says wistfully, eying the exits - but he is obligated to remain five days. Let the healing begin.
The film is an adaptation of Ned Vizzini's younger grownup novel, and shares with it the central gag that Craig is stuck with the grownup crazies for the reason that kids's psych ward is being remodeled. This contrivance implies that Craig gets to befriend messed-up grown ups like Bobby (Zack Galiflanakis, in a mellower take on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest's Randle McMurphy) and share a room with a muttering Egyptian man named Muqtada (Bernard White) whereas on the same time falling for the teenaged cutter Noelle (Emma Roberts) down the hall. For Craig, who lives under the fixed strain of paternal expectations (The normally laid-again Jim Gaffigan plays his dad as a never-ending source of stress), being on psychiatric lock-down is like Match.com with life lessons.
In its notion that life in a mental ward will be really neat - even Craig's mother (Lauren Graham) comments, not completely sarcastically, that it looks like a pleasant place - the movie teeters perilously close to each the gooey and offensive. Despite the nice, crazy power and tremendous performances - Galiflanakis conjures a surprisingly sad character, and I grew fond of Gilchrist, with his impenetrable black eyes and rosebud mouth - you walk out of it shaking your head. Should not the impulse to make a cute film set in an insane asylum be grounds to have one's head examined? It appears especially weird and shocking that co-writers and administrators Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, should have chosen a venture like this for their third feature film after displaying such sure-footedness in their critically lauded Half Nelson and Sugar.
But it's worth contemplating exactly whom the film is meant for. It's not labeled as such, but It's Kind of a Funny Story is squarely aimed at younger adults. It's a teen romance with a public service message, like cinema's cooler answer to the ABC Afterschool Special. (The generations that grew up on those lessons in the 70s, 80s and early 90s mocked them mercilessly, but have we been able to forget them?) Teen suicide is a lamentable downside that does not appear to be going away. Witness Rutgers student Tyler Clementi's tragic plunge off the George Washington bridge on Sept. 22, Massachusetts teen Phoebe Prince hanging herself in January, and the outstanding spate of deaths in Palo Alto, Calif. last 12 months through which 5 high school college students dedicated suicide on the tracks of the native commuter rail in the middle of simply seven months. Palo Alto is arguably one of many nation's most intense breeding grounds for youthful success and its issuant pressures, and as Craig tells us in goofy little flashbacks, that is the kind of community he lives in too.
So whereas it might appear trivializing to have a boy's suicidal urges take the form of fortunate twists that within the house of some days land him kisses from two pretty women and the rediscovery of a forgotten talent, the impulse that lands young Craig in the hospital isn't something to be scoffed at. His problems, compared to those the grownup inmates have, are far easier to surmount. Craig (and his mother and father) need an perspective adjustment more than something else. Like all teenagers, notably troubled ones, he needs someone empathetic to pay attention and supply help. Craig shouldn't be being bullied in school, or having his intimate encounters broadcast on the Internet; his woes are type of "depression lite" compared to these cases with national profiles. Given the Clementi case, you'd have understood if the distributors had panicked and pulled It's Kind of a Funny Story from its launch date out of concern it is perhaps considered seen as trivializing teen suicide. That's a tricky call; I might say the message that gaining exterior perspective on one's problems could make an enormous distinction to a youngster isn't a bad one to send out into the world at this point.
Morever, the movie makes a invaluable level about teens and depression: Craig's reputation skyrockets amongst his mates when phrase will get out that he is in a mental ward. Teens love drama; even the woman he adores from afar, Nia (Zoe Kravitz) is suddenly interested in him. The belief of this irony - that reputation relies on bizarre and unreasonable components and may subsequently should not be taken critically - is a reiteration of something our realizing popular culture has been enjoying with for years. (Consider 1989's Heathers, the place a mean lady's popularity grew by leaps and bounds after her supposed suicide.) But this fact won't essentially be obvious to teens. And for them, It's Kind of a Funny Story just isn't likely to appear tasteless or trivial. It may even speak to them.







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