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Burt and Verona are expecting their first child, which came as an unexpected surprise. When Verona is about six months pregnant they hear that Burt’s parents are moving away, the main reason Burt and Verona moved to the town they are living in. After hearing this announcement Burt and Verona contemplate their own big move, so that they feel happy with their own situation. They decide to take a trip, visit old friends and see what city will work well for them. They realize that everyone has changed and has their own life and they ultimately end up realizing that they need to find their own path and do what feels right.
Away We Go has a Juno like feel to it, these two quirky people looking to find their own unique way in life go on a life changing adventure that brings them closer then either of them could have ever imagined. Away We Go is full of surprises, the people they meet along the way or different and lead their own lifestyles. Away We Go is a simply written, simply directed film about life blossoming from its roots and how it changes the parents forever. Burt and Verona have no idea who or what ideals their child will have, but they do know one thing and that is they will love their child unconditionally no matter what happens.
John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph are perfect in the lead roles, much like Ellen Page was in Juno. Krasinski plays a quietly confident Burt, and is a joy to watch. Rudolph plays Verona, who is frustrated with their surroundings and she simply just wants a fresh start. Together Krasinski and Rudolph make the perfect pair, and as they travel they begin to experience things they would have never experienced before, As they meet up with old friends Burt and Verona begin to shape as people and realize what they need to do in order to be truly happy. It is later in the film that their travels take a bit of a dramatic turn and Krasinski just seems to awkwardly sit through these scenes, and his facial expressions are enough to tell us that Burt understands. There a few scenes where Burt and Verona are sitting alone talking and you can really comprehend the concerns these characters have, because it is something we will all have to consider at some point in life. Perhaps not because a child, but there will come a time where all of us will consider if our current situation is making us happy, but will we have the strength like Burt and Verona to change it if we then realize we aren’t happy.
Tom Garnett: It's all those good things you have in you. The love, the wisdom, the generosity, the selflessness, the patience. The patience! At 3 A.M. when everyone's awake because Ibrahim is sick and he can't find the bathroom and he's just puked all over Katki's bed. When you blink, when you blink! And it's 5:30 and it's time to get up again and you know you're going to be tired all day, all week, all your fucking life. And you're thinking what happened to Greece? What happened to swimming naked off the coast of Greece? And you have to be willing to make the family out of whatever you have.
Away We Go has this way of showing us life is only as good as we can make it out to be. We need to be the ones who face each day with grace and appreciation, and as much as we want more and strive more, we should stop and be thankful for everything we do have. Away We Go is a beautiful life altering story, one we should all take note of. We can do anything and go anywhere as long as we have the strength and courage to make those changes.
Burt Farlander: Do you promise to let our daughter be fat or skinny or any weight at all? Because we want her to be happy, no matter what. Being obsessed with weight is just too cliché for our daughter.
Verona De Tessant: Yes, I do. Do you promise, when she talks, you'll listen? Like, really listen, especially when she's scared? And that her fights will be your fights?
Burt Farlander: I do. And do you promise that if I die some embarrassing and boring death that you're gonna tell our daughter that her father was killed by Russian soldiers in this intense hand-to-hand combat in an attempt to save the lives of 850 Chechnyan orphans?
Verona De Tessant: I do. Chechnyan orphans. I do. I do.
I instantly fell in love with this story and these people, every different person that came across the screen in this film had their own sense of belonging, and that is why Away We Go is such a special and unique film.
8/10
