SPRING (2014)

Ask me what movie is classified as a genre, and believe me I will not be Able to give a definitive answer. Spring starts with the screen blackout and only the sound of heavy breathing. We finally figured out that it is the breath of the mother Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) lying weakly in bed that he suffered from cancer. Its atmosphere is unsettling, especially when the dying old woman Tells a joke about death. Not long after he Died. With such an atmosphere, it seems this is a horror movie. Evan's death made ​​the grieving mother, moreover, a few months before his father Died. This young man lived alone. Grief is making Involved in a fight in a bar where she worked. A fight that not only makes Evan fired but Also pursued by the police. Intend blurred the buried grief, Evan went to Italy.

Suddenly the movie feels like a road trip. The main characters are in the Lowest point of choosing to go with the hope of finding a cure to start a new life. There Evan met with two British men, had partied together before settling while working in citrus plantations belonging to Angelo (Francesco Carnelutti). The sun shone brightly in the background as well as the use of color filters presents a soft but bright warm atmosphere. Beautiful, like the story of the search for meaning of life. Evan was Eventually meth by a local woman named Louise (Nadia Hilker) the which made ​​him fall in love at first sight. So true, Spring is a journey movie about a man who Traveled and met true love that will heal the grief. Right? Well, not really . I'm not going to give a spoiler. So all I can mention is the movie will be changed again to: romance, monster movie, body horror, science-fiction, and romance ( again .) Spring is batshit crazy .. . in a good terms .



Very difficult, to combine Several genres into one, especially if each genre is not only an insertion but could take over the spotlight . This is why the director duo Justin Benson (also scriptwriter) and Aaron Moorhead deserve to be called a genius. Not only capable of stringing a coherent story that is not messy, They also managed to take a substantial elements of each genre, and then maximize it. So the audience will feel romantic love story, the tense atmosphere IS ALSO disturbing , to sci-fi about stem cell origin that do not take the facts of science. Like dividing it into chapters, tone of each genre is so pronounced. Benson and Moorhead Able to OutWit the audience's perception. Makes us believe in what comes before then give a twist surprisingly without having to cheat. Both are not just twist the story by force. All the facts have been planted much Earlier implied.

Among the many genres that are, indeed, the romance is the main foundation. Everything is free if Evan and Louise love story failed to steal the hearts of the audience, Because that is the engine of the dynamics of the film. Without it Spring will only be non-binding throws madness. Evan is a good man. He was grieving and Saddened us because of it. But he was not gloomy . He is attentive and Earnest pursuit of love without having to feel annoying . While falling in love with Louise Because Evan was not looking, but he found love. Romantic. While Louise is a mysterious girl, but a unique and attractive. She's that kind of girl that most of us guys want to spend our time with, even though just for a little chat . Their relationship comes so alive. There is no talk about love and feelings cloth. Time spent, they are more Likely to talk things casual or taunted each other with each other. Liquid and dynamic. Like the works of Richard Linklater, romance dominated chatter that ensnare intelligent audience.



In the third act of strong merger and sci-fi romance, indeed only used as a scientific theory Explains that complicated everything. While most of the movie Explains the science mumbo jumbo just a short time that leaves an impression of confusion and rush, Spring put the final third of the movie for it. Recklessness that can be boring, but Benson and Moorhead avoid the impression that success. Instead of boring, this is precisely the part not only managed to explain all the theory in detail but Also to build a relationship with Louise Evan Become stronger. Makes the audience more sympathetic to them. characterization both so vital element here. One of the best scenes of the series comes after an incident Louise crazy at home. There is a feeling of shock on Themselves, especially Evan, but Benson and Moorhead inject shades of comedy as a form of consistency of the relationship between the two characters are liquid. As a result setipe scenes that are usually stiff in another movie it is so dynamic here. Attention can be drawn audiences, enabling us to focus on digesting all the existing explanation.

Spring is Able to do what many pop romance films failed to do items, namely present the love story of two people in a "different" without having to feel ridiculous, even believable . Indeed the movie is doing things that seem impossible and Often kinds of make movies of Twilight so derision. Humans and "monster" love each other? There. Human adult age early love of the opposite sex tens of Thousands of years old and eternal life? There. But rather than ridiculous, it was romantic. Every sacrifice and the the term "blind love" that can present understandable, Because previously we've felt how wonderful romance of the two game characters. Spring is Able to present romance (super) strange lure. So when the movie ends with the ending so sweet simple, I Also smile.

Verdict: Spring is proof that "genre" in the movie only as a classification and exploration instead of a bounding box. Part Linklater's chatty romance, part Cronenberg's body horror . Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead presents one of the most rich and colorful films of all time.