Paper Towns (2015)

Ok, so I went to the movie with little expectations. I'd never read the book and I still have no inclination to do so, but I must say that I loved the movie.

The beginning of the movie reminded me of something in life that I've only experienced in my younger years and not to this particular extreme at that. Yet even though I say the movie has it's extremes I was completely engrossed in the nature of the movie. For the hour or so that I was in the theater, I was in that movie. I believed it.

What the movie reminded me of was this: a fleeting moment in life. The type of moment where you have a clear cut black or white decision to make and you choose the road less traveled and you reap the benefits of it. You get all the ups and downs and ultimately come to the end of the road a better person than you were before you made the choice. A choice that you'll look back at and never regret. A choice that you will always count as precious and treasure. A choice that literally has the power to define an entire aspect of yourself.

I've never answered such a question with the choice that yields to the outcome that became the culmination of Paper Towns. This saddens me, and I fail to see when such a decision on my part will come, but that's delving into my life and I'm here to write about the movie, so, I digress.

Part of the reason I think I enjoyed the movie so much was because it just seemed so real to me. I could relate to the characters, the quirky ones, the solemn serious ones, and the all around main character ones. There was, at least, a little bit of something I admire, cherish, desire, or am, in part of all the main characters in the movie. I also saw the characters make daring choices based on desires that yielded to what I perceived as good. They took risks and even disobeyed to some extent and all choices were made with purpose, even if misguided. There was no who haa about making bad choices or ho hum indecision about what choices to make. Choices were made!

I guess I just love how the characters seemed so free to me. Even in their problems they seemed a type of free that I don't feel I have, that I don't believe I possess. It left me feeling hopeful. Maybe someday I could be like that, not exactly like that, but I hope you know what I mean.

I guess I'll leave it at that for now. This is definitely a movie I want to buy when it comes out.