The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Movie Review

I have just watched the movie "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" a movie I have wanted to see for a long long time. Mainly because Emma Watson is starring in it, the truth I would not know about it if it were not for Emma Watson. It is a teen movie based on the book by the same name and is about our young shy hero who is fighting with depression, his best friends suicide and starting high school without any friends. To make it short, he is having a really hard time and he does not expect it to change. As we all know it of course change, for ells it would be a completely different kind of sad story. He more or less accidentally or luckily gets some friends and they start to take him in and it slowly take away his problems and his pain. This movie shows how hard it can be to be the new kid or be introvert, how depression can destroy you and how everything turns out all right when you are with the friends you love.
This is truly a beautiful story with great acting and perfect directing. But what I really want to talk about with this movie. Is that it got to me, I could relate to the main character (On some level, I do not have crushing depression and do not know anybody who have killed them self) But I know about being in lonely and being able to fit in. I know what it means to be at a party seeing everybody have fun and finding myself feel like standing on a deserted island whilst the party ship sails away.
I have been all over nearly every movie (except for the horror and splatter genre) and this movie have given me something no movie have given me the past 14 years. In fact nothing in life have given me what this movie did, the past 14 years. This movie made me cry, I have not cried since I was eight, I have watched every sad movie I could find, "A walk to remember", "The notebook", "The fault in our star" and every other movie on different cry lists on the internet. I had to curl up and wait the movie out and still wait twenty minutes after that before I could regain control over my body. I did not remember how painful it is, how can normal people do this regularly?
Since this movie have everything and gave me a long forgotten experience, plus it makes me want to read the book. I give this movie a full five out of five stars and I will recommend this to everybody (And recommend that you maybe see it alone). Thank you so much Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and thank you Stephen Chbosky.


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