Vô cùng vô cùng vô cùng dễ thương!!!
This, honestly, is one of my all time favorite movies. It’s the kind of movie I only really needed to watch once, maybe twice. It’s IMO the perfect “slice of life” movie.
It’s a movie where nothing happens, and that’s what I love about it. Nothing happens, but in a perfect way. They’ll spend a huge chunk of time trying to enact some devious plot only to screw it up in a stupid way. Then they go and eat ramen. Then they do some other stuff. Suddenly they realize they’re best friends.
This movie came into my life right at the end of a horrible situation. I was stuck in an awful job, it was hot and noisy and chaotic and I was breaking from all the negativity. The day after I finally left, for the first time in years, I slept in and when I woke up I played this movie. Seeing such a peaceful movie after all that chaos was therapeutic, which I think is a major goal of the SoL genre.
As others have pointed out, the natural and fluid character interactions and chemistry are what really make this movie. The characters feel real, the dialogue feels real. Any scene to point out - a good example being the old man on the swingset. The way he carefully walks over to the seat and sits idly, juxtaposed with Alice standing on the swing chatting about whatever questions pop up. The old man recognizes this and quietly reminisces about youth. Then the scene ends and she goes on her way.
Little funny moments like when she looks out past the fence and sees her classmates mother dressed like a Lolita goth.
Little tender moments like when she chases after her father’s limo to give him the mail and tell him goodbye. Or little sweet moments when she finds herself lonely until she finds a childhood friend and they dare each other to practice ballet moves on the train.
All of this movie is tiny little moments.
F to the guy when she jumped off the fence and landed on his nards.
