Film: Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass and Jake Johnson
Running time: 01 hour, 26 minutes
Rating: 9/10
Thanks to the wonderful folks over at Den of Geek, The CW and I found ourselves in a hotel screening room that was a little bit too posh for us, me wearing the ugliest of all Christmas jumpers...
ready for a double bill of two films I've been waiting a long time to see.
Up first, Safety Not Guaranteed. We had tried to see this at Sundance earlier in the year but tickets were hard to come by. It was definitely worth the wait.
Whilst this film is pegged as a being about a slightly odd man who thinks he can time travel, this is essentially a film about personal growth and the building of relationships. It also explores the oddities and eccentricities of human behaviour.
There are scenes where you laugh out loud, and then two minutes later I found myself feeling an overwhelming sense of melancholy and sympathy toward the characters and the way they are treated by the world at large.
The characters are well formed and brilliantly acted, Mark Duplass steals the film, which is saying something considering just how great Audrey Plaza is.
If you get the chance, go see this.
Challenge day: 84
Challenge time: 04 days, 14 hours, 35 minutes
Challenge film total: 58
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