Movie Review: “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

Movie Review: “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”

Stephen Chbosky has taken his exceptional novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and made it an amazing film, starring big name actors including Emma Watson, Paul Rudd, Kate Walsh, Dylan McDermott and Joan Cusak.

Mental illness, sexual abuse, drugs and alcohol are the main themes for the movie and are treated in a very mature way with a beautiful cinematography, a really good script and excellent performances of the actors. Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller are the lead actors that make Charlie, Sam and Patrick come to life in a way you’ve never seen.

This movie is a coming of age story about a very introvert teenager named Charlie, played by Lerman, who is trying to get through highschool, but don’t expect the usual “shy kid in high school wants to lose his virginity, seeking to be popular and trying to save the day” because this movie is so much more than that. It all comes down to a mental issue because of something that occurred when he was younger and throughout the movie, Charlie writes letters to an anonymous reader known as 'Friend' and tells this person everything he does and feels, who he meets and loves. Like a personal diary which helps him get through the day. Charlie meets two outgoing outsiders: Patrick, played by Miller, who is a gay, happy and outgoing teen and Sam, played by Watson, a beautiful young woman who had a rough past. They accept Charlie and begin to drown him into a whole new world filled with sex, drugs, music and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

You will follow Charlie on a rollercoaster ride full of emotions in which he learned that high school and becoming a teenager isn’t as scary as it seems if you have the right people by your side.

It’s a film that portrays emotional aspects of a typical teenager but it doesn’t come to the point were they are cheesy and completely sentimental, they’re just real. They are real teenagers trying to make the best of what they got and trying to forget their past.

“We can't choose where we come from but we can choose where we go from there.”

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