The Kings of Summer (2013)
Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, and a strange kid named Biaggio. He announces that they are going to build a house there, free from responsibility and parents. Once their makeshift abode is finished, the three young men find themselves masters of their own destiny, alone in the woods.
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Yah when i first heard about the movie, oh gosh i was really expecting a well-made movie, best fit teen and somewhat blow me away. The movie first start slowly but interestingly. I was thinking of a whole exciting plot and hope they will go that way. And the next 80 minutes of the film, all the characters really stuck in their own cage of poorly-defined characteristic. The pace was so slow and seriously, it was made for adults above 65. And the whole things was quite dull and boring. I tried to maintain sober and awake until the very last moment of the movie. But it was absolutely disappointing, and also that house is not exquisite at all :) Not highly-recommended and MUST NOT WATCH :) 4 overall for our gorgeous Patrick and Joe. And sometimes Biaggio is funny too.
just a film. about teenagers. about summer. about adventure, friendship, courage, self definition, life, nature, death, need of the other, love in its significant forms. a film like a open window in spring morning. useful for memories. and for the acting of few young actors. interesting for its flavor about an unique period of life. and for humor, tension, sadness, innocence, games and emotions. it is not easy for define it. or criticize it. because it seems be only a game. the rules, the aspects of its evolutions seems predictable. nothing new. only the feelings who transforms it in a personal trip. a film about be yourself. and discover you against all the appearances or the other's expectations. that is all !
Three kids, feeling their way through the anxieties of their mid-teens, get together to build a summer retreat in the woods and escape from a droll season in their parents' homes. It's hearty and funny, a great reminder of the unseen handcuff between independence and responsibility that floats into our lives at that age. The grown-ups are particularly hilarious as stiff, out-of-touch caricatures; everything we see them as during adolescence, rolled up and amplified by a few degrees. Moises Arias is the best of the young actors, playing a weird McLovin type who somehow falls into the partnership with two long-term buddies. His heavy gaze alone is usually enough to get me chuckling, and the cryptic, emotionally-detached lines that usually sprout from his lips moments later are absurdity at its best. It can get a little self-absorbed at times, and spirals off into navel-gazing in the third act, but for a good stretch in the middle it's prime coming-of-age goodness.
The film is dreamy, nicely shot and with good young actors. I'm sure we'll see more of the three boys in the future. But this is a film by boys, about boyscout fantasies, for boys. A princess thrown in there for them to fantasize about but obviously with no content other than being just the pretty object of the boyscouts' dreams. So tired of this. But this is what gets funding from men as usual. All the f-ing time. The Hucklberry Finn dream the funders, director, producer etcetera have about what they wish they would have dared to do when they were young. I guess it's pretty good but myself I'm soooo longing for the film, just one please, by and about young women coming of age and not please just centred about dreaming about boys. Im sure the script is out there, unfunded by the men sitting on the money. So no this is not a teen movie or a coming of age movie. It's a boys movie. And yes pretty good but had enough of them. Btw the Belagio(?) boy too weird and didn't really fit in to the rest of the story, could've been tuned down a bit. Good acting though. Liked the father role and the one playing him.