I know even when I was already lost in those beautiful eyes of Freddie Highmore, I was able to find some paragraphs of the story to nitpick upon, But I just can`t resist the urge to love this movie.
Putting the fact aside that Freddie Highmore was the biggest attraction of the movie and kept taking my breath away for a whole hour and a half for being so gorgeous and...simply him( I mean, MAJOR crush here), this movie gets to me. I am experiencing the motivating problem exactly like George except I am having this problem now at the age of 22, which means I am still totally immature and the love of my life is still missing in my life. Sad. Gotta fix that. Second, I also think when i was little I was happy, open and curious, way better than I am now. Now I`m simply being unhappy, closed and numb. Gotta fix this too. If you ask me, George and I have the same issue of not loving our life, and what we have to get to be doing now is starting to love it again. Just like his name,George is just an ordinary boy who got confused during a period but got back up feeling more than nothing again. That`s what I, we all should do, stop just getting by but to live our lives abundantly.
A little side comment on the casting choice, just my 2 cents: Emma Roberts is sophisticated enough to play Sally, but maybe a little too sophisticated. Actually when I see Cathy in We`re the Millers, I think that role totally suits Emma. She has that charismatic idosyncracy in her that when she plays a pretty runaway girl who is mean but meanwhile has a mild heart, it is very convincing. But I have seen so few movies that featured major young actresses, so I am no expert on this , maybe Emma already was the perfect pick for Sally. And no way of denying, she pulled a good show.
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