The film "It's good to be quiet": actors, roles, plot. June Bookshelf: S. Chbosky "It's good to be quiet" (1999)

, 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.

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 a lot after these acquaintances: he finally made new friends and is no longer alone. It turned out that Patrick is gay and is dating a school sports star - Brad. Charlie has his first sexual experience with a party girl named Mary Elizabeth, but unfortunately he can't get over Sam. Once he kisses her in front of the whole company, everyone takes the side of Mary Elizabeth, condemns Charlie and stops communicating with him.

Patrick's relationship with Brad ends because the boyfriend's father caught them together. After that, Brad's friends trip Patrick, and he falls in full view of the entire dining room. A fight ensues, which is witnessed by Charlie. He passed out, and when he came to his senses, he found out that he got into a fight and saved Patrick. Charlie's friendship with Sam and Patrick's company is renewed.

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 not stand it, and the young man happens breakdown. In the hospital, Charlie agrees to classes with a psychologist and more and more recalls his childhood. Conversations with the doctor help Charlie understand that all these years he subconsciously blamed himself for the death of his beloved aunt Helen, and therefore mental breakdowns happened to him.

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.

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 first grade 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 the transfer to high school, in the month of May, Charlie's best friend 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 main character very much 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 good friend helps to guide you through the period of growing up, to avoid 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!!

(ratings: 2 , average: 4,50 out of 5)

Title: It's good to be quiet

About "It's Good to Be Quiet" by Stephen Chbosky

Amazingly, Stephen Chbosky's internationally popular controversial book It's Good to Be Quiet has only recently been translated into Russian. The novel came out in the USA 15 years ago, but the film appeared in Russia earlier, although, in our humble opinion, the book is more worthy of attention.

The book It's Good to Be Quiet tells about a very intelligent teenager who studies at school and differs from his peers in that he has schizophrenia. The main character of the book is called Charlie, he has absolutely no friends - his only friend committed suicide; but there is a family good parents, younger sister and older brother is an athlete. Charlie studies at new school, where he has no acquaintances at all, but after a while he manages to meet his half-brother and sister, who are trying to show the teenager the other side of life.

From this moment in the life of a guy, the first kisses, drugs, cigarettes, the first experience of sex and much more begin. But after some time, Charlie has a lot of questions that even adults cannot answer.

Subsequently, Stephen Chbosky, the author of the novel, himself became the director of the film of the same name, It's Good to Be Quiet. Emma Watson played her first relatively serious role after Potter, which ensured the attention of teenagers on the tape. Unlike the book, the film then appeared in Russia.

The intoxicating feeling of youth deep meaning and many questions made Stephen Chbosky's novel the best-seller of its time. This book, one might say, was the only creation of its author, since after it Chbosky did not create anything as noticeable. "It's good to be quiet" the book attracts the attention of a large number of readers who will be able to trace not only youthful relationships, but also the responsibility that stands between a person and the abyss.

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A lot of films have been shot on the topic of difficult teenagers, downtrodden quiet people, depressed boys and girls. It is understandable. This is always relevant. There are plenty of guys like Charlie in the world. They cannot find a solid meaning of their existence in the world and get along with the environment. Why am I here? Who needs me? What is my purpose? How to get along with the system? These questions are probably asked by a lot of people.

I'll tell you honestly, I did not have the opportunity to read the book on which this film was made. And I'm definitely not going to read it. Why? Firstly, the author himself acted as a director, which means that there should not be a big discrepancy with the paper version. Most likely, everything was shown in the film. If the writer remained true to himself, of course. Second, the story didn't grab me that much. Let me explain right away why. I guess I'm just too old for these kinds of movies, guys. If I were a teenager, studying at school, perhaps all this would have affected me more. But my time school time gone (sigh). I've gnawed away my granite of science a long time ago. Careless times of complete dependence have flown by. If you think about it, it seems like a lot of time has already flown by. In fact, the movie should be interesting, first of all, to teenagers of the same age as the heroes of the tape. So it will be more correct. On a fresh head, so to speak. I'm not one of those who come up with an age limit for such films. In principle, there are a number of more worthy adaptations on a given topic. And I remember them more. What am I for. When you see such a high rating and so many rave reviews for a project, then, willy-nilly, you expect some kind of furore for deep thinking, reflecting a specific issue, or just an emotional, touching and thought-rich movie. Needless to say, it's in the movie. But it is shown sparingly and tediously. Ordinary, at first glance, the boy who can not find mutual language with classmates and peers, his sentimental story with his aunt, his passion for books and craving for writing all this is very correct and good, although not new. But the presentation with which the director (who is also the author, I want to remind you) tells his story looks dubious. Everything shown seems to have a clear structure and idea that the picture follows, but it definitely lacks versatility and soul in the details. Depths, I would even say. There would be no complaints if Stephen Chbosky did not try to cover such rich ground for his novel. After all, he, in fact, is trying to show philosophy here, and the difficulties of teenage maturation, and love, and even a little psychological drama. And it comes out somehow fragmentary. Cinema makes you sad that time is fleeting, and everything will turn into memories sometime. Yes, what is there. We ourselves, when then, we will turn into them. The main thing is to have someone to remember. I would like to hope that it will. It prompts thoughts about the essence of existence. Raises the theme of loneliness. Yes. The actors fit in well. Logan Lerman should play these guys. He feels very confident in his character. And Emma Watson tries to look very convincing, relaxed and difficult girl. Both succeed. Yes. There is the necessary melodic music in this case, which does not leave the viewer indifferent. It creates the very melodramatic atmosphere of events. There is a good ending. For which I will throw a separate point. Or rather, for Charlie's spiritual mental speech. But despite the above pluses, the film remained for me somewhere in the background. He definitely leaves some impressions, thoughts and a specific sediment from the thoughts of the protagonist, but does not penetrate to the depths of the soul, as was originally intended. And it was meant to be, of course. Otherwise, why all this? The tape does not embrace the viewer for an hour and a half of its running time. There is interest at the beginning, and then, it suddenly comes and captures closer to the final. But here is the end of the fairy tale. Everything else is a monotonous chewing of the same thing. Typical activities for teenagers. Walk, rage, fall in love, meet without love, but dream about it, make plans for the future, fly towards life. Criminally little time is given to Charlie's letters. His craving for writing in general is poorly shown. And I so hoped that in the finale he would show us his manuscript, typed on a donated typewriter. And it will be about this, about that, about everything that hurts. Spill out in his own writing work. It would look pretty symbolic. But this was not shown. There was a good ideological and warm climax, but nothing more behind the scenes. It's a pity. It didn't work for me, to be honest. I am sure that in this field it was possible to grow a richer crop.

In general, the picture of Stephen Chbosky, by no means, is not bad. She is good in her own way. There is something in her. She mentally prepares the viewer for the fact that life is going on now. Live. Be yourself. Dream and feel. It cannot be called stupid and senseless. But it is more suitable for teenagers. Or rather, they will be able to draw more from it for themselves. And older people will quietly think about the past, which can no longer be returned. And we would be glad to replay this game, boys and girls, but it’s already impossible. Of course, the film is indicative as a guide for all lost souls, lonely romantics and self-contained people. This movie is able to hook a lot of people. Unfortunately, the movie didn't have that effect on me. But I recommend you check it out. There is a good chance that you will like it much more than I do. And leave alone with your thoughts on for a long time. One cannot be taken away from history. It reflects that complex facet of human nature that everyone has. In the end, we are all alone in our and continue to search hidden meaning being. I wanted to give four points. But I'll add one for the good ending.