The film "It's good to be quiet": actors, roles, plot. It's good to be quiet it's good to be quiet how it ended

, more Composer Michael Brook Editing Mary Jo Marks Cameraman Andrew Dunn Translators Maria Junger , Alexander Novikov Dubbing directors Yaroslava Turyleva , Alexander Novikov Script writer Steven Chbosky Artists Inbal Weinberg , Gregory A. Weimerskirch, David S. Robinson , more

Do you know that

  • The film is based on the 1999 novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Also, the author of the novel acted as a screenwriter and director of the film.
  • In an interview, Emma Watson said that she agreed to star in this film, as director Stephen Chbosky told her that it would not only be one of the main roles in her life, but in addition to this, she would spend the summer of her life, and also meet with some of her best friends. Watson also said that this statement turned out to be true.
  • Steve Chbosky decided that Emma Watson would be perfect for his film when he saw her performance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), in the scene where Ron breaks her heart and Harry consoles her.
  • Emma Watson has admitted to refusing to watch her kiss scene and The Ricky Horror Picture Show.
  • Ezra Miller auditioned via Skype. At the same time, he was so charismatic that five hours after the audition, he was given the role.
  • In the book, Patrick and Mary were smokers, while Charlie himself smoked for a while. This action was removed from the film in order to receive a PG-13 rating.
  • Although it is given little attention in the movie, Charlie is not that different in age from Sam and Patrick, which may be the reason why they get along so well. This is only mentioned in the book, but Charlie was relegated due to emotional issues, so they must only be one year older than him.
  • The novel takes place in 1991-1992. The film does not specify a specific year, but it can be seen that none of the characters use cell phones or the Internet.
  • During filming, a scene was also filmed in which Charlie's sister Candice informs him that she is pregnant, after which he drives her to have an abortion, which she then performs. However, this scene did not make it into the final cut to avoid the adult rating.
  • In the DVD and Blu-ray commentary for the film, director Stephen Chbosky mentions that Dead Poets Society (1989) and The Breakfast Club (1985) were two of his favorite films that had a strong influence on him growing up.
  • At the time of filming, Ezra Miller was 17 and about the same age as his character. Logal Lerman turned 18 and was almost two years older than his character. Emma Watson, on the other hand, turned 21 during filming, so she was much older than her character, as well as the eldest of the trio.
  • Emma Watson's first major role since Harry Potter.

Stephen Chbosky's book "It's good to be quiet" in our penates became famous after the movie of the same name with Emma Watson appeared on the screens. We'll talk about the book first, and then a bit about the movie.

The book, without a doubt, a wonderful example of youth prose, was included in the top ten banned books of the Association of American Librarians for the reason a large number immoral scenes involving teenagers. So in the US, it will be difficult for a minor to get this book in a library.

Chbosky's work is written in the genre of epistolary prose and describes the life of a very inadequate, but smart guy named Charlie, who just got into the first grade of high school. The situation is difficult for any child, but in the case of Charlie, everything is aggravated by the fact that he really has problems with his head. At the age of seven, his beloved aunt Helen died, and this caused the boy such hard feelings that he even had to be placed in the hospital. Since then, he has not recovered. And before transferring to high school, in the month of May, best friend Charlie Michael committed suicide. In general, the same picture.

Against this background, Charlie begins to write letters to the guy who was discussed by the girls in his class. The girls claimed that he knew how to listen and did not take the opportunity to sleep with them at parties, although he could. The novel is written in the form of letters to this mysterious man. Charlie lives his academic year and tells what happens to him in letters. And in the role of a mysterious person who knows how to listen, the reader acts.

Together with Charlie, we experience his process of adaptation to the surrounding reality, his friendship and the first romance in his life, the first cannabis cakes ...

The thing about this novel is that everything that happens: drugs, parties, first sex, masturbation ... is actually told by a child. A smart, kind, extremely open, vulnerable and defenseless person.

It is the contrast of this children's perception and the surrounding "adult" teenage reality makes this novel stand out from total weight. Without this technique, the book would either have turned into a heavy youth drama, or into variations on the theme " american pie". Fortunately, the author managed to avoid both the first and the second.

Instead, Chbosky wrote a book about accepting us with other people and finding our place in the world. About relationships that allow us to avoid insanity. In fact, the entire book is an illustration of Laing's famous experiment. At one time, psychiatrist Laing took schizophrenics, dressed them in normal, not hospital clothes, and sorted them according to their diagnoses. After that, they were allowed to communicate normally and spend time together. After some time, the patients recovered and were released home. Caught in ordinary life, without support, alone with their own sense of isolation and abnormality, less than six months later they were all back in the hospital.

The author himself said in an interview that he was prompted to write the book by the fact that so many excellent people with whom he knew, in the teenage period of their lives, allowed themselves to be treated like garbage, because they believed that they deserved such treatment. In the same way, Charlie watches people hurt each other, and with his clumsy kindness begins to win back support for others, theoretically more "normal" people, the function of support and support. And the space of their relationship allows Charlie himself not to go crazy.

If I were to try to sum up the main idea of ​​the book in one sentence, I would say that the book is about being insane does not mean being bad. Yes, Charlie is completely inadequate, but he still remains a living human being, worthy of compassion and sympathy. And even the fact that he does not understand half of what is happening, but still remains a sensitive and compassionate person, says more good about him than bad.

The book ends with Charlie hospitalized, but in the end, he was able to touch his deepest and darkest secret, and in perspective this big step forward to his "recovery".

Reviews of the novel are divided into two polar categories. In the first, more attention is paid to Charlie's relationships with others, and the attitude that this is a very warm book about friendship, feelings, isolation and overcoming it dominates.

The second category of reviewers is fixated on empty and stupid philistine morality, in the worst sense of the word. They see only the surface, instead of looking deep, focusing on "adult" topics and condemning them deeply. Well, what can I say about this! “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Now it is necessary to say a few words about the film. The film is good, the acting is beyond praise. If you compare the book with the film, then, paradoxically, the film does not provide a deep enough immersion in what is happening. However, all the highlights of the novel were conveyed. This is not surprising, given that the film was directed and written by the same Stephen Chbosky.

In the book, everything is described through the eyes of Charlie, and in the film we just see what is happening. From the outside, Charlie seems to be just an ordinary quiet teenager. Each of us in the class had these, or we ourselves were like that. But when you read a book, you understand what exactly is going on in the head of this person. After all, there is really concentrated madness, which simply does not fully manifest itself outward. Because of this, the effect of immersion in the book is 50 times stronger than in the movie. This is despite the fact that I first watched the movie, and only then read the book.

Separately, it is worth mentioning the line of Charlie's relationship with his sister cut from the film. In it, he took her to the hospital for an abortion. Unfortunately, due to the timing, this part of the film was cut. However, it can be easily found on youtube. Worth a look. The scenes are just heartbreaking.

P.S. I have a strong suspicion that when the girls in the class talked about the understanding guy, they meant Charlie. So basically he was writing to himself. The author indirectly hints at this.

Score: 10

"The Catcher in the Rye" of our days? I'm not too fond of such comparisons in the annotations, they are more likely to push the book with suspicion than to make it more open to the reader. But damn it, in this case I can't help but agree!

Here we have a teenager. Here are his friends. Here are his problems. And this is how he lives. And this is what he thinks about. And nothing more. Nothing new either, but is it bad? And what could be new here? The book is not good for this, but for the sincerity and openness that it carries in itself. It is warm and light from her, and I want to believe in something .. I don’t know what. Just believe, being inspired by the characters of the novel.

In one of the last chapters where the characters say goodbye, I find for myself not only explanations between Sam and Charlie, but also an explanation between the author and me, the reader:

“I don’t want him to rush around with his feelings, keeping them to himself. I want him to open them to me so that I can feel them too. I want a person next to me to be able to behave the way he wants. And if he starts doing something that I don’t like, I’ll tell him honestly.”

It's as simple as being honest.

It's even easier to say thank you. This is the second thing that really hooked me. Bill telling Charlie, “I want to thank you. For the fact that it was a pleasure to teach you,” cannot but inspire. I don’t know, maybe somewhere this is in the order of things, but it struck me. At the school where I studied, there was not even a question that the teacher would say something like that (and graduation does not count here at all). No, the teachers were not bad, by no means, rather they were professionals in the bad, detached sense of the word. And after such books and phrases, something inside me staggers, and, in currently As a teacher myself, I believe I'm doing the right thing by following Bill's path.

All in all, a captivating book. His kindness, openness, honesty. And even if this boy Charlie does not always behave adequately, even if the life of a teenager with her sex drugs and rock and roll is shown in all its "glory" - it does not matter! It is important that this boy in his letters (to you, reader!) with all simplicity and trustfulness presents you with his own soul on his palms, teaching that being yourself is priceless. Endlessly.

Score: 9

Damn, damn, damn! Did you ever feel like you like and dislike a book at the same time? Surely it was. But the book made me excited and furious at the same time. I'll try to explain. The plot of the book is great, I have a weakness for such books about hard life teenagers, and where the main character is very unusual person, with all sorts of cockroaches in my head. Plus, the story is told in the first person. But at the same time, the main character - Charlie - so often infuriated me with his inadequate behavior that I just wanted to howl. During the entire book, and the book is small, I read it in a day and a half (this is almost a record for me), Charlie cries all the time, with or without reason. Have you often met a crying sixteen-year-old boy? Yes, maybe once or twice he will shed a tear, and then when no one sees him, but in order to shed tears for every little thing, and sometimes even from scratch, I don’t understand this and eventually attributed it to a savory biography and impressionability of the protagonist.

In this book, you will meet many aspects of teenage life: sex, parties, alcohol and drugs, homosexuality, love, friendship, study, etc. and so on. And this book will be useful to read for both young people and older people, because. the action takes place in 1991-92, where there were no cell phones yet, and the computer was a luxury.

Somewhere towards the end of the book flashes such a phrase "try to let it pass through yourself, and not absorb it." I would recommend the same to you, read the book abstractly, without taking too much to heart, in order to fully enjoy this book.

Score: 9

A good book should be with anguish, and good book about teenagers - simply obliged, because this is the law of the genre and the law of life ... It seems to me so. Puberty is a time when you don’t like everything, even yourself, you are shaken from overwhelming joy to deep sadness, and even these acne! It’s hard from yourself, and they also force you to read books where people have worse things than you - who has unrequited love, who poked a grandmother with an axe, who was not on the lists.

“It’s good to be quiet” is that rare case when a teenager is happy with everything. He likes to mow the lawn for pocket money, he likes to study, he likes to dream about a girl who forbade dreaming about herself. Charlie (we learn the name of the hero from his letters to a stranger, it is changed so that he remains incognito, but since he chose him for himself, we will also use him) immediately stipulates that he is with his oddities. But, firstly, his friend recently died, secondly, he is experiencing the death of his own aunt, who loved him more than his parents, and, thirdly, he lacks attention from these very parents (eight hugs from 7 up to 15 years old, they said three times that they love him during the same time). In letters, Charlie writes about everything in his life - how he studies, what he reads, what music he listens to, how relationships develop with relatives, teachers and peers. At school, he meets Patrick and his sister Sam, who are older than him, but they invite Charlie to their company. Together they watch movies, smoke weed, go to parties.

In fact, we live exactly one year with Charlie. Each event that he describes in his letters generally leaves a warm and touching trace - he grows up, experiences are an integral part of growing up. Time will pass, and he will remember everything with a smile, like all of us, remembering our past. I hope everything.

Honestly, I expected some kind of akhtung from each letter. Will something happen to Charlie? Will someone else die? An out of the ordinary event will happen, and everything is lost, everything is lost! But I did not expect what was waiting for me at the very end.

Having sobbed through the night and half of the day, I have to say the following: it’s good that the truth was revealed, even if not in hot pursuit, but I hope not everything is lost for Charlie, because the psyche is adaptive; it's bad that all this took place at all, because if the parents were a little more attentive, and their parents were a little more attentive, and the parents of the parents ... and so on ad infinitum, then everything could be different. But, as Charlie's father said, "Not everyone has a heartbreaking story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse." While living our “rather happy” life, we must not forget about those whom we have tamed... That is, we have given birth. Children are not cold toys. Shouldn't be the way that their friends give them more love and attention than family.

Except storyline I liked everything about the book! Girls, quick and early, relying on natural wisdom, giving the right advice. Boys who search for themselves and are torn between important issues“Do my aunt’s family discuss my family?” and “For the first time, will I want to cuddle up?” A teacher that I was offended at first, but who turned out to be right by sound reasoning. Right and pleasant, to be honest. Even the company charmed me and sent me back to my youth, where there was also a lot and it was so cool that it was just like that! Relatives! Oh family is the icing on the cake! There, every frame is a diamond - that maternal grandfather, that paternal grandmother. And the fact that my father secretly gave money to his less successful sister is also an indicator for me. True, paying off at a high price from her sister, gold fish fucked up with her younger son! How did it happen? But I still hope that everything will work out even in this not a simple family.

What to sum up? Love your children and they will love you back! I would like my grown son to read this book sometime in 10 years. It seems to me that she will not sink into oblivion and will not be lost, the stage of growing up is described painfully well here.

Score: 10

Sorry for the boy, but no more. As a character, he does not even cause a shred of sympathy, although all his experiences can be sympathized with. At the end, the missing part of the mosaic is revealed, but this is not so hot what a revival and does not make you rethink your attitude towards the hero. The whole book is the story of one kid who copes with his psychological trauma with the help of friends, drugs and alcohol. It's in that order. But, unfortunately, with all the reliability of the description of experiences and teenage everyday life, the book leaves nothing behind. If the secondary goal was to make other people cry over the problems, then thank you, no need. I honestly listened to Charlie's story, but he didn't offer any new ideas. For the most part, he sheds tears and acts as a prop on the path to self-awareness of the infinite. I wish I could say I'm happy for him, but I don't care.

Score: 2

“I don’t believe it” beat in my head throughout the entire reading. I do not believe that a teenager at 16 can write so naively. Don't understand the obvious. Smoking, drinking, drug addiction with might and main, but at the same time, well, not at all to see and not understand the obvious in human relations. Even when he is told about it in the forehead. And when he periodically asked himself a question from the series “what did I do wrong”, I really wanted to take him by the shoulders, shake him well and shout.

No, I can concede that, given his childhood treatment, he might be like this now - a little retarded, withdrawn and retarded. But how then can one explain his excellent academic performance, friendship with guys two years older and easily such nightly walks in bars?

As much as I was struck by The Catcher in the Rye at one time, this book did not go to me. Maybe it is closer to the present (although the action takes place in 1991-1992, do not forget), but it is completely far from my personal teenage experiences. Yes, I was a completely different child, without a similar past, with other problems, we also discussed all sorts of nasty things, but I was not so naive.

The guy runs after "friends", who only need him when it's bad, and who don't really need his opinion (the episode with the performance is indicative). He is experimenting with drugs with might and main - and not at will in many ways! There they gave him a cupcake, then they treated him to jelly. It was served in such a way that the dude himself did not understand what he was using. And in contrast deeply appreciates the serious literary works, from The Great Gatsby to Naked Lunch!

In the pros, I note the language of the work. I can’t judge the quality of the translation, but it’s really written in a more or less teenage language - and even the mentioned teacher’s lessons can be traced, the guy in the text tries to expand the language along the way, to deepen it. At the same time, remaining quite a teenager, not pretending to be Shakespeare. However, I wanted to write down many thoughts voiced by the hero and his friends.

The ending is amazing, yes. I even considered increasing the score by half a point. But in thought, I decided that I would not do this - the book did not hook me enough to remember it later. And the final twist, I confess, was solved by me approximately in the middle of the story. True, at first I suspected a little differently.

Score: 6

Dear friend!

You are probably wondering why I wrote to you again, because my last letter was a farewell letter. If you remember, I then said that maybe I will write more if I have free time.

Well, now I'm in the tenth grade of high school. Loads, of course, are more serious in comparison with the last academic year, but there is still more free time than before. It's all because my friends have gone off to college and I'm on my own now. So “immersing in life” is now more difficult, and I read more and more and just wander around the city. My advanced English teacher Bill didn't go to New York and he still gives me cool books to read.

Sometimes, however, it is quite sad and lonely, but I correspond and often call up Sam and Patrick. They promised that they would come in the summer and we would spend this time together.

Everything is calm in the family, and my sister also went to college, if you remember. He often calls home, but talks more and more with his mother, says she has a new boyfriend there.

I still have to go to a psychologist, now he increasingly asks not about my childhood, but about what happened recently. He says that I have such relationships with friends and family because I put their interests above my own. Because of this, sometimes I have emotions over the edge, and I can cry. And this should not be done, well, self-eliminate type. Just like in the book I read last year - "The Fountainhead", where that architect said to his friend: "I am ready to die for you. But I won't live for you." By the way, Sam said something similar to me then, at the end of the summer: that she doesn’t need a person next to her who idolizes her, but he adjusts himself and does not behave as he wants. She said that you need to be yourself, and if she doesn’t like something, she will say. There is something in this, perhaps, and it should be done. So far, I'm just not very good at it. And this psychologist also says that it’s like this with me because I still subconsciously blame myself for the death of Aunt Helen, well, that she then left for a gift for me and crashed in a car accident, and that therefore I sometimes think - if it weren’t I have a birthday on that day (if I had not been born, it turns out), she would not have died. I've been thinking about this myself, if anything. Campaign this is not only because of her death, but also because of those dreams about her, which actually turned out to be true. So the psychologist did not discover anything new. So “scrupulously” (Bill advises inserting such words into the text, it used to be difficult, but now it’s getting easier and easier) examines my actions and behavior, but for some reason does not say how to fix it.

If you don't mind, I will write to you sometimes, not as often as last year, but still. It seems to me that you good man and you know how to listen, and this is very important. You yourself understand that it is stupid to keep a diary when you can write to a living person, this creates a feeling of unity, and, besides, the diary can be found. Although, like, I have already written something like this before. I do not remember.

By the way, today is my birthday, seventeen years old. But yes, you probably remember that I don’t really like my birthdays. As planned, I gave a gift to my mother that day. And he explained that this was because if it were not for her, none of this would have happened (well, that is, me, and therefore a reason for the holiday). She was very surprised, but also delighted, in my opinion, too. I told her that now we will have such a “tradition” - others give me gifts on this day, and I give her.

It's late now, I'm going to bed. Look how much I dashed off, and now you have to read.

I also decided to list my favorite books for you, these are all those that Bill gave me to read last year. I wrote about them before, but suddenly you forgot. And these are books worth reading. Believe me.

Here they are: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, Knowles' Separate Peace, Kerouac's On the Road, Barry's Peter Pan, Burroughs' Naked Lunch, Hamlet (I don't think it's necessary to say who wrote it), Camus' The Outsider, Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Henry Thoreau's Walden or Life in the Woods, and Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.

Well, I hope you are doing well and you can still turn to for advice and support.

Happily.

Score: 10

And I liked it.

At first I didn't even understand what it was. There is nothing new and revolutionary for me there that could be if I read the book at my 15. And nothing high either - ordinary, in general, the problems of an ordinary teenager. And the plot doesn’t particularly shine: well, the boy, well, the quiet one, reads books, makes friends, supports relatives, falls in love, periodically suffers, whines and cries.

And then I understood. The main thing in this book is not what I wrote above, but amazing, absolute, cosmic honesty and the simplicity that follows it. It's like thoughts were taken straight out of my head and put on paper. No bluntness, no censorship, no regard for anyone's (and even your own) opinion. It's like it's natural to get into the head of a fifteen-year-old teenager and see how everything is arranged there. And this is the most valuable, something that probably does not happen in real life.

Reading the book, I was more and more imbued with the idea that frankness is not as scary as it might seem. And maybe it’s worth sometimes thinking less about what other people might think about our thoughts.

Charlie's new friends - Patrick and Sam, a very charismatic company, for a young sociophobe. Sam is a girl, a couple of years older than Charlie, who immediately became interested in love plan Main character. A few years earlier, she was popular with high school students, because. they loved to solder her. Patrick is a fun guy who has his fangirls, but has a penchant for homosexuality. In addition to his peers, Charlie begins to communicate closely with his literature teacher, who, in turn, opens the door to the world of books for him, explaining that Charlie would make a good writer.

Charlie believes that he is the cause of death, his beloved aunt, so he rots himself in every possible way and thereby throws himself into a pit of despondency.

The novel is very touching and, like a good friend, helps you through the period of growing up, avoiding many problems.

Too little has been written.

You read other teenage books, where 12-year-old characters are much more complicated and interesting.

But then I came to the conclusion that Charlie's primitivism was due to his mental inferiority. He's mentally retarded! Many times lay in psychiatric clinics, stayed at school for 2 years ... He is inadequate. Sport causes aggression in him. Charlie is constantly depressed, crying for any reason. He is being treated by a psychiatrist. Perhaps this explains that the main character behaves like Small child and his development does not correspond to his age.

But then, why did he finish the school year with an A? When all the time he either drank or “lit a cigarette”? One has little to do with the other.

And how it made me laugh when Charlie's teacher, Bill, calls him the most talented and gifted student he had. The teacher himself imposes semi-pornographic and homosexual literature on Charlie, forces the teenager to read it and write essays on it! Complete perversion.

Liked Patrick very much positive hero, and their friendship makes you believe that such things happen!!

Although the book does not show modern youth in the best light, the book is still nervous, a deep and kind message!))

I'm going to watch the movie, I hope they didn't blunder with the adaptation!!

I'm very glad I read this book. Thanks a lot for this Steven Chbosky!!

, more Composer Michael Brook Editing Mary Jo Marks Cameraman Andrew Dunn Translators Maria Junger , Alexander Novikov Dubbing directors Yaroslava Turyleva , Alexander Novikov Script writer Steven Chbosky Artists Inbal Weinberg , Gregory A. Weimerskirch, David S. Robinson , more

Do you know that

  • The film is based on the 1999 novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Also, the author of the novel acted as a screenwriter and director of the film.
  • In an interview, Emma Watson said that she agreed to star in this film, as director Stephen Chbosky told her that it would not only be one of the main roles in her life, but in addition to this, she would spend the summer of her life, and also meet with some of her best friends. Watson also said that this statement turned out to be true.
  • Steve Chbosky decided that Emma Watson would be perfect for his film when he saw her performance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), in the scene where Ron breaks her heart and Harry consoles her.
  • Emma Watson has admitted to refusing to watch her kiss scene and The Ricky Horror Picture Show.
  • Ezra Miller auditioned via Skype. At the same time, he was so charismatic that five hours after the audition, he was given the role.
  • In the book, Patrick and Mary were smokers, while Charlie himself smoked for a while. This action was removed from the film in order to receive a PG-13 rating.
  • Although it is given little attention in the movie, Charlie is not that different in age from Sam and Patrick, which may be the reason why they get along so well. This is only mentioned in the book, but Charlie was relegated due to emotional issues, so they must only be one year older than him.
  • The novel takes place in 1991-1992. The film does not specify a specific year, but it can be seen that none of the characters use cell phones or the Internet.
  • During filming, a scene was also filmed in which Charlie's sister Candice informs him that she is pregnant, after which he drives her to have an abortion, which she then performs. However, this scene did not make it into the final cut to avoid the adult rating.
  • In the DVD and Blu-ray commentary for the film, director Stephen Chbosky mentions that Dead Poets Society (1989) and The Breakfast Club (1985) were two of his favorite films that had a strong influence on him growing up.
  • At the time of filming, Ezra Miller was 17 and about the same age as his character. Logal Lerman turned 18 and was almost two years older than his character. Emma Watson, on the other hand, turned 21 during filming, so she was much older than her character, as well as the eldest of the trio.
  • Emma Watson's first major role since Harry Potter.
Pages: 176
Year of publication: 2013
Russian language

Description of the book It's Good to Be Quiet:

This book quickly became a bestseller and won the love of many teenagers around the world. The novel, which tells about the wonderful stage of growing up, is often compared with the classics of literature - "". Also, a film adaptation of this story was recently released with a good cast and reviews from moviegoers. Main character of this book is a boy named Charlie. He has to go to high school, and he is terribly afraid of new changes in life. He recently moved breakdown, and in order to somehow cope with his emotions, the guy begins to write a lot of letters. He addresses them to someone unknown, whom he has not seen, but to someone who would accurately understand the feelings that overwhelm him. Charlie does not like to go to discos, it is difficult for him to adapt in society and communicate with his peers. He is quiet, an introvert who loves to read. good literature and listen to soothing music. Soon Charlie falls in love with a girl named Sam, the sister of his friend. In his letters, he sets out the first experiences about the surging feelings, love for everything that surrounds him, and attempts to find himself in this complex world. This touching story will leave a mark in your heart for a long time.

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Language Year IMDb The release of the film "It's good to be quiet" ( original name- The Perks of Being a Wallflower) K: 2012 Movies

"The perks of Being a Wallflower"(English) The Perks of Being a Wallflower ) is an American film adaptation of the epistolary novel of the same name by Stephen Chbosky, who acted as the director of the tape. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2012. Premiere in Russia - 20 September. The picture received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Film and hit the top ten. best films of the year by the US National Board of Film Critics.

Plot

The events in the film develop from August 25, 1991 to June 22, 1992. Epilogue - August 23, 1992.

The main character is Charlie, an introverted teenager. After the death of two people close to him, Aunt Helen and best friend Michael, he is in a depressed state. One day, going into the classroom, Charlie hears a conversation between classmates about one guy who knows how to listen and understand. Plus, he didn't sleep with either of them at the party, even though he had the chance. Having learned the address of this guy, Charlie began to write letters to him, expressing his experiences and thoughts, without indicating his address, and changed the names to others and similar ones.

Charlie talks about the strange suicide of his best friend Michael, a new friend in the form of an English teacher, his sister and her boyfriend, family. Later, Charlie talks about Patrick, who attends craft classes with him. Everyone called Patrick "No way."

After some time, Charlie meets Sam at the school football, he later finds out that she is Patrick's half-sister. Charlie tells Sam about his feelings, but Sam has a boyfriend, Craig, and she advises to forget about her. Then Patrick tells Charlie about the relationship between boys and girls. Patrick and Sam introduce Charlie to Bob and the whole party. Charlie tries drugs against his will.

The life of the protagonist changes greatly after these acquaintances. Charlie has his first sexual experience with Mary Elizabeth, but unfortunately he cannot forget Sam. Patrick reveals that he is gay and that he is dating Brad. Their relationship later ends as Brad's father caught them together.

One day, Brad's friends trip Patrick, and he falls in front of the entire dining room. A fight ensues, which is witnessed by Charlie. He passed out, and when he came to his senses, he saw that he had saved Patrick. Charlie and Sam and Patrick's friendship is rekindled.

Sam and Patrick graduate from high school and leave to study in another city. On the last evening, Sam and Charlie kiss, thereby confessing their feelings to each other. Against the backdrop of worries about the departure of friends, Charlie again remembers Aunt Helen and blames himself for her death. Charlie's psyche can't stand it, and the young man has a nervous breakdown. In the hospital, Charlie agrees to a session with a psychologist and increasingly remembers his childhood, during which he admits to a psychologist that his aunt seduced him. Later, the psychologist tells Charlie's parents about this, and they give him support.

At the end of the film, Charlie, Sam and Patrick drive under the same tunnel that has become part of themselves and part of eternity for them.

Cast

Cast Character
Logan Lerman Charlie- son of Mrs. Kelmekis and Mr. Kelmekis, brother of Chris and Candice, nephew of Aunt Helen, former best friend of Michael. Now in love with Sam and dating her.
Emma Watson Sam- half-sister of Patrick (by mother), ex girlfriend Craig. Meet Charlie.
Ezra Miller Patrick- half-brother Sam (by mother). Patrick is gay ex-boyfriend Brad.
May Whitman Mary Elizabeth- Buddhist and punk, Charlie's first girlfriend, unrequitedly in love with him, best friend Alice.
Erin Wilhelmy Alice Mary Elizabeth's best friend. Alice is from a wealthy family. This girl loves vampires and wants to act in films.
Julia Garner Susan- Charlie's old friend, but in Lately they don't communicate.
Johnny Simmons Brad- gay ex-boyfriend of Patrick.
Rhys Thompson (English)Russian Craig- Sam's ex-boyfriend.
Paul Rudd Mr Anderson- teacher of English literature.
Tom Savini mr callahan- labor teacher.
Keith Walsh Mrs Kelmekis- wife of Mr. Kelmekis, mother of Chris, Charlie and Candice.
Dylan McDermott Mr Kelmekis- Husband of Mrs. Kelmekis, father of Chris, Charlie and Candace.
Melanie Lynskey Helen- Chris, Charlie and Candice's aunt.
Zane Holtz Chris- the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kelmekis, the older brother of Charlie and Candice, the nephew of Aunt Helen, a university student.
Nina Dobrev Candice- daughter of the Kelmekis, sister of Charlie and Chris, niece of Aunt Helen, Derek's girlfriend.

Soundtrack

NameMusic Duration
1. "Could It Be Another Change?"The Samples 3:27
2. "Come On Eileen"Dexy Midnight Runners 4:12
3. TugboatGalaxy 500 3:54
4. "Temptation"new order 5:22
5. EvensongThe Innocence Mission 3:40
6. AsleepThe Smiths 4:10
7. "Low"Cracker 4:34
8. "Teen Age Riot"Sonic Youth 6:57
9. "Dear God"XTC 3:36
10. "Pearly-Dewdrops" DropsCocteau Twins 4:10
11. Charlie's Last LetterMichael Brook 1:48
12. HeroesDavid Bowie 6:08

Music

NameMusic Duration
1. "First Day"Michael Brook 2:32
2. "Home Again"Michael Brook 1:40
3. "Charlie Speaks"Michael Brook 2:03
4. CandaceMichael Brook 1:46
5. Charlie's GiftsMichael Brook 0:55
6. "Kiss Breakdown"Michael Brook 5:12
7. AcidMichael Brook 3:12
8. Charlie's First KissMichael Brook 3:34
9. "Shard"Michael Brook 2:47

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In 1808, Emperor Alexander went to Erfurt for a new meeting with Emperor Napoleon, and in the highest Petersburg society they talked a lot about the greatness of this solemn meeting.
In 1809, the proximity of the two rulers of the world, as Napoleon and Alexander were called, reached such a point that when Napoleon declared war on Austria that year, the Russian corps went abroad to assist their former enemy Bonaparte against their former ally, the Austrian emperor; before that in high society talked about the possibility of marriage between Napoleon and one of the sisters of Emperor Alexander. But, in addition to external political considerations, at that time the attention of Russian society with particular vivacity was drawn to the internal transformations that were being carried out at that time in all parts of the state administration.
Life in the meantime real life people with their own essential interests of health, illness, work, recreation, with their own interests of thought, science, poetry, music, love, friendship, hatred, passions, went as always independently and outside of political proximity or enmity with Napoleon Bonaparte, and outside of all possible transformations.
Prince Andrei lived without a break for two years in the countryside. All those enterprises on estates that Pierre started at home and did not bring to any result, constantly moving from one thing to another, all these enterprises, without showing them to anyone and without noticeable labor, were carried out by Prince Andrei.
He had in the highest degree that practical tenacity that Pierre lacked, which, without scope and effort on his part, gave movement to the cause.
One of his estates of three hundred souls of peasants was listed as free cultivators (this was one of the first examples in Russia), in others corvée was replaced by dues. In Bogucharovo, a learned grandmother was issued to his account to help women in childbirth, and the priest taught the children of peasants and yards to read and write for a salary.
One half of the time Prince Andrei spent in the Bald Mountains with his father and son, who was still with the nannies; the other half of the time in the Bogucharovo monastery, as his father called his village. Despite the indifference he showed to Pierre to all the external events of the world, he diligently followed them, received many books, and to his surprise noticed when fresh people from Petersburg, from the very whirlpool of life, came to him or to his father, that these people, in the knowledge of everything that happens in the external and domestic politics, far behind him, sitting without a break in the village.
In addition to classes on names, except general occupations reading a wide variety of books, Prince Andrei was at that time engaged in a critical analysis of our last two unfortunate campaigns and drawing up a project to change our military regulations and decrees.
In the spring of 1809, Prince Andrei went to the Ryazan estates of his son, whom he was the guardian of.
Warmed by the spring sun, he sat in the carriage, looking at the first grass, the first leaves of the birch, and the first puffs of white spring clouds scattered across the bright blue of the sky. He did not think about anything, but looked cheerfully and senselessly around.
We passed the ferry on which he spoke with Pierre a year ago. We passed a dirty village, threshing floors, greenery, a descent, with the remaining snow near the bridge, an ascent along washed-out clay, a strip of stubble and a shrub that was greening in some places, and drove into a birch forest on both sides of the road. It was almost hot in the forest, the wind could not be heard. The birch tree, all covered with green sticky leaves, did not move, and from under last year's leaves, lifting them, the first grass crawled out green and purple flowers. Scattered in some places along the birch forest, small spruce trees with their coarse eternal greenery unpleasantly reminded of winter. The horses snorted as they rode into the woods and became more sweaty.
The footman Peter said something to the coachman, the coachman answered in the affirmative. But it was not enough for Peter to see the coachman's sympathy: he turned on the goats to the master.
- Your Excellency, how easy! he said, smiling respectfully.
- What!
“Easy, your highness.
"What he says?" thought Prince Andrew. “Yes, it’s true about spring,” he thought, looking around. And then everything is already green ... how soon! And birch, and bird cherry, and alder is already beginning ... And the oak is not noticeable. Yes, here it is, the oak.
There was an oak at the edge of the road. Probably ten times older than the birches that made up the forest, it was ten times thicker and twice as tall as each birch. It was a huge oak tree in two girths with broken branches, which can be seen for a long time, and with broken bark, overgrown with old sores. With his huge clumsy, asymmetrically spread, clumsy hands and fingers, he stood between the smiling birches, an old, angry and contemptuous freak. Only he alone did not want to submit to the charm of spring and did not want to see either spring or the sun.
"Spring, and love, and happiness!" - this oak seemed to be saying, - “and how you don’t get tired of the same stupid and senseless deceit. Everything is the same, and everything is a lie! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness. There, look, crushed dead firs are sitting, always the same, and there I spread my broken, peeled fingers, wherever they grew - from the back, from the sides; as you have grown, so I stand, and I do not believe your hopes and deceptions.
Prince Andrei looked back at this oak tree several times as he drove through the forest, as if he was expecting something from him. There were flowers and grass under the oak, but he still, frowning, motionless, ugly and stubbornly, stood in the middle of them.
“Yes, he is right, this oak is a thousand times right,” thought Prince Andrei, let others, young ones, again succumb to this deception, and we know life, our life is over! Whole new row Hopeless thoughts, but sadly pleasant in connection with this oak, arose in the soul of Prince Andrei. During this journey, it was as if he thought over his whole life again, and came to the same calming and hopeless conclusion that he had no need to start anything, that he should live his life without doing evil, without worrying and desiring nothing.

On guardian affairs of the Ryazan estate, Prince Andrei had to see the district marshal. The leader was Count Ilya Andreevich Rostov, and Prince Andrei went to him in mid-May.
It was already a hot spring. The forest was already all dressed up, there was dust and it was so hot that when driving past the water, I wanted to swim.
Prince Andrei, gloomy and preoccupied with thoughts about what and what he needs to ask the leader about business, drove up along the alley of the garden to the Rostovs' Otradnensky house. To the right, from behind the trees, he heard a female, cheerful cry, and saw a crowd of girls running towards the intersection of his carriage. Closer in front of the others, a dark-haired, very thin, strangely thin, black-eyed girl in a yellow cotton dress, tied with a white handkerchief, from under which strands of combed hair were knocked out, ran up to the carriage. The girl was shouting something, but recognizing the stranger, without looking at him, she ran back with a laugh.
Prince Andrei suddenly felt pain from something. The day was so good, the sun was so bright, everything around was so cheerful; but this thin and pretty girl did not know and did not want to know about his existence and was contented and happy with some kind of her own, stupid, but cheerful and happy life. “Why is she so happy? what is she thinking! Not about the military charter, not about the arrangement of the Ryazan dues. What is she thinking? And why is she happy? Prince Andrei involuntarily asked himself with curiosity.
Count Ilya Andreevich in 1809 lived in Otradnoye just as before, that is, taking over almost the entire province, with hunts, theaters, dinners and musicians. He, like any new guest, was glad to Prince Andrei, and almost forcibly left him to spend the night.
During the boring day, during which Prince Andrei was occupied by the senior hosts and the most honorable of the guests, with whom the house of the old count was full on the occasion of the approaching name day, Bolkonsky looked several times at Natasha, who was laughing and having fun between the other young half of society, kept asking himself: “What is she thinking? Why is she so happy!