The Spectacular Now was a movie recommendation by my friend Tonio last year. He told me that he enjoyed watching this movie and that there are some lessons that you can pick up while watching the scenes. Hearing his words, I became curious about what The Spectacular Now is all about. I began to read the pdf version because of curiosity. One day, while I was on my favorite bookstore, I happen to saw a copy of the its book. I immediately encourage my dear mother to buy that book for me, saying that it's a rare thing to have a copy of that book. I had a hard time looking for a hard copy at the bookstores. I don't want to read the story in a soft copy after all.
The Spectacular Now is about Sutter Keely who believes that we should all live in the present. Enjoy every moment and its opportunity. I think he's like a happy-go-lucky guy who doesn't think much about his future plans. The thing I like about him is that he's friendly and compassionate. He loves helping people out and he can easily make friends around different bunch of people. He's not that a bad influence after all.
About Aimee Finecky, Sutter Keely's girlfriend, I like how she handled Sutter at his worst. I like how calmly she talked to him and cares for him. Sutter is really a lucky guy to have Aimee as a girlfriend. Also, Aimee's interests are interesting and it can help her to stand out on people.
To tell the truth, I just don't like that sex scene. It seems out of place at the movie, even though you can see that they love each other much.
At the movie, I can see that it's a typical American teenage life but talks about life. I like how the movie tackles about living in the present by the role of Sutter Keely. It sure is important to live in the moment and enjoy life at the present. Yet, we should always be reminded that having plans for the future will help ourselves be on the right track and can also help us to live life the fullest. Also, helping people is a great thing. We may never know that there will be an unexpected great thing that will come to us as we help people.
This is the first time that I like and prefer the movie more than the book.
By the way, here's my favorite quote from the movie. It's a friendly reminder to all of us:
"Stuff's always happen. And the real challenge of my life, the real hardship, is me. It's always been me. It's always I can remember to not be afraid. Afraid of failure, having people down, hurting people, getting hurt. But if I kept my guard up and focus on other things like other people. If I couldn't feel it then no harm could come to me. I screwed up. I didn't know that I shut up the pain, I shut up everything. Good and the bad, till there was nothing. It's fine living in the now, but the best part of the now is there's another one tomorrow. And I'm starting to make it count."
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