I just had a look at the movie trailer of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, embedded below.
TPOBAW is one of my favourite teen contemporary novels, and this trailer captures all the things I love about it: it’s quiet, it’s cute and funny, and it’s smart and relatable in a way that makes my heart hum. I don’t know if it’ll do all that well in the cinemas, because it lacks of a lot of the exciting fistfights/explosions/drama that people expect. But it looks like I’ll love it nonetheless.
It seems to be targeting the ‘Juno’ crowd. That’s fine with me because I thought Juno was funny and awkward, especially when it tried to make Michael Cera seem even remotely sexy because pfffftttttt no. But I know a lot of people didn’t like Juno, so that’s a nice little ‘this movie is probably not for you’ red flag.
What do you think? Have you read the book, or is this your first glance at the story?
hmmmm… I’ll watch it with you dear, I like they left all the explosions, guns and car chases out of the trailer it’ll make them much better when you see them in the film…. it does have explosions right….right?