A good movie

I actually already saw this movie but it was a long time ago so I thought I should give it a 2nd chance, considering its pretty good reputation. Indeed, the first time around, I didn’t like it much and I even thought it was actually rather boring. Maybe I didn’t really get the appeal because I grew up in Europe and not in the USA and the whole thing seemed rather pointless to me. Well, this time around, I was finally able to see why it was so popular. The point is that it is actually rather realistic and, instead of having a straightforward plot, you just follow some American kids in the 60’s throught one night and, like any other teenagers, they didn’t do much actually. The funny thing is that 50 years later, they still do pretty much the same thing. Indeed, when I was younger, I used to go every year to Baltimore and, sometimes, the oldest son would ask me to go somewhere in his car and I remember while sitting in his car, I was really wondering where the hell we were going. We weren’t going anywhere, we were just driving around which was a very odd concept to me. Apparently, that was and still is their way to past their time in the week-ends. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, I still believe the characters were still not really engrossing and the way Ron Howard and Richard Dreyfuss’ characters suddenly switches their destinations felt rather artificial. Still, it remains a pretty good flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10