Young Adult is about Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) a young adult ghostwriter who visits her hometown and tries to win back her old high school sweet heart Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson). Mavis is one of those girls from your high school- the pretty, popular, petty girl who's always powdering her nose or spreading nasty rumors about everyone else. Theron does a good job playing Mavis who is so petty and hasn't really changed that much from her high school days. There are sides to everything, there are friends like Matt Freehauf (Patton Oswalt) who are still too uncool to associate with in public, and anything said by anyone needs to be thoroughly analyzed in high school girl speak. E.g. He said this to me does that totally mean that he's still in love with me?
I know that a lot of people had problems with this movie because of the lack of growth from any of the characters. While I found Mavis's character extremely frustrating and at times cringe worthy (especially when you see her so deluded and out of touch with reality), I found it more frustrating and unbelievable that there are so many others in her hometown who were just as set in their high school personas.
Last of the Mohicans
Warning: Video contains spoilers
Last of the Mohicans (it's supposed to be based on the classic book but it's made many liberties ) follows the three last Mohicans: Chingachgook (Russell Means) and his two sons, Uncas (Eric Schweig) and adopted Nathaniel Hawkeye (Daniel Day Lewis), during the French and Indian War as they escort the daughters of British General Webb to a nearby fort. There's conflict and hints of unrest from the colonists, who are forced by the British to help them fight the French. There's revenge led by Magua (Wes Studi) and the Hurons against Webb and his daughters. Hawkeye and Uncas also fall in love with the general's daughters Cora (Madeline Stowe) and Alice (Jodhi May).
It takes a little bit of time to get into this movie, but it picks up nicely once it becomes clear that it's not going to be an easy journey to the fort. The score is absolutely beautiful and possibly one of my favorites. The last half of the movie is absolutely breath-taking. It blows you away. All of the setup and implications from the first half really come to fruition and it's epic, it's tragic, it's beautiful.
I had trouble finding good clips of this movie that capture it well without spoilers. While the clip on top does contain spoilers, it happens relatively early in the movie. The clip below is one of my favorite sequences in the movie and does contain a lot of spoilers so proceed with caution.
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