I long for that time, though I am not sure if it really did exist for me. For a lot of us.
Making friends these days is just so hard. They despise you if you keep it to yourself, jealous of you if you are being who you are, afraid of you if you speak your mind, hate you if you are the better man, will forever view you as a menace if you've ever lent them a helping hand, and leave you if they think you are out of your usefulness, and a new friend they like better, who also happens to have more purchasing power to dispense than you do, comes along.
Compared to this, it is heaven in the film. And a little bit unrealistic.
When does the world come to a place where good guys actually get girls, that they are appreciated as friends, and being smart is rewarded by teachers?
No. They do not like those things. Girls appreciate guys that can entertain them, most preferably materialistically . Friends appreciate those who can make them look good. And teachers love obedient edgeless deferential pseudo-smart posers more than anyone else; they hate true intellectuals, because they themselves never were.
OK. A high school mental guy made true friends, got true love (from a hot girl), exorcised his infanthood demons, beat footballer bullies, became the teacher's pet, and turned his school life around. A good script to boot to make a lot of people feel good and buy tickets, aside from lying to them what the real world is like.
But whatever. I've gotten used to it. The Joan Cusack shrink isn't even in the least bit believable. Shrinks never make you better. All they ever care about is get from you as many dollars or yuan as possible. At least all the shrinks I've seen are like that. And those are the charging ones. At least they gave their opinions and left you a script so that you can buy those exorbitantly priced drugs. The free ones are worse. They just do not care .
Hey, at least the girls (and dudes) in the cast look good. Well, most of them. Though Watson is hopeless. Cannot act. Can only affect. Typecasted too early. Brain toasted. The Miller guy is good.
The thing is, Watson at least got out of this Harry Potter swamp and did something different. While Ezra is still doing what he has been doing all along, the rumbling cynic alt kid, only with a different sexual orientation this time. Seriously hope he can get out of this peonage yoke of being serially typecasted, fast enough, so that the prodigy that he is be not ruined by the excessive exploitation at an early age canonically observed and faithfully administered by America's delusion making business.
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