The Art of Getting By [Blu-ray]

Haven't saw this in years love it

Skip to "Review" if you don't want a spoiler...This movie is about depression and an eventual decision. Live or die.But the title is near perfect.Forget what the writers and directors and whoever wanted to do with this. If you know depression then you know that the ending is just the start of a new episode for this poor kid in really acknowledging that he's still just getting by.I say acknowledging and not discovering *my original word of choice* because the I believed that behind each smirk was a sad awareness that made everyday in the life of this character a charade even to himself. That's the true art in getting by. How to deceive yourself. The girl didn't get it. No one did but the sell out artist that he will either become or likely kill himself before becoming.This was all said very "definitively" but that's just how I write sometimes. You could call this more of an emotional analysis. Not a review.Review: It was alright. It made me smirk and distracted me. I didn't feel like it was a waste of my time. That's a 4 out of 5 for me. only because I never round up unless I have to.

Freddie Highmore has been one of my favorite child actors along with Dakota Fanning and Haley Joel Osment. Somehow it seems unfair that the years keep going by so fast and our favorite child actors become adults all too soon---for we movie viewers. Legally speaking, Freddie may, or may not, still be a child. I think the actor' age is in the 17 to 20 range so it's borderline. However he is too old now to play the characters which made him famous. I was drawn to Art of Getting By to see the actor fully grown and playing a much older character. I am very happy to report that I found him to be just as charismatic on screen playing a high school senior as he was playing much younger characters. He still says volumns with his face and using very few words. He can still create very loveable characters. Good for us !!! We are going to be able to continue enjoying the work of Freddie HIghmore. I purchased the DVD through Amazon and the transaction was excellent as expected.

The film follows the main characters ups and down of his personal life and high school as he prepears for life after school.

Here is an excellent film about understanding the problems of maturity for a typical High School Youth in the 21st Century. Freddie Highmore has the talent for bringing into real-life the High School Student who has the talent, but attempts to get by with as little effort as possible, even a fatalistic teenager. George Zinavoy (Freddie Highmore) has turned his lazy nature into an art with the apparent objective to graduate from High School without completion of any assignment. Then, George meets Sally (Emma Roberts) who is a kindred spirit. Sally is beautiful, emotionally complicated and inexplicable. A Law of Thermodynamics - two negatives become one positive - applied when her kindred spirit upended his lazy nature and world of slackness with end-over-end reaction due to their eccentric and unanticipated romance: Suddenly, he jumped up and decided to pursue his dreams - and prevails. As Freddie Highmore the Actor is near the threshold of young adulthood, this film compliments his talent, and more to come is anticipated in his future on the screen.

FREDDIE HIGHMORE: Cute, smiling, innocent, vulnerable, tender, teary.Right?Not in this film.Highmore's performance is low key, temperamental, uncertain, moody, caught between earlier adolescence and later adolescence.There are no overwhelming tragedies; no heroic moments; no great villains; no gut wrenching catharsis.In other words the film feels real.The school is real.New York is real.The young people are real.I taught school for many years and I knew these kids, or ones like them anyway.The script had the feel of a real New York, featuring a slightly upper crust family with a loner kid who has talent but no motivation to use it or develop it. It is the true love from an unexpected girl, a slightly older fellow artist, his mother, and his teachers that encourages him to make a choice between the road that leads to adulthood or the diversion of unending adolescence.The film is far too plain to attract much gratuitous excitement, but for those interested in how real people subtly develop the movie is a winner.

In a nutshell: petulant, rude teen George does no schoolwork for a year - amazingly is not thrown out of school. He meets Sally, a dull and soulless 'party' girl who is really boring, as are her friends. He connects with Dustin, who at first seems to be an interesting character, but then Dustin falls for Sally (why??) so that's the end of that friendship. He has a scuffle with his stepfather: I was rooting for the stepfather, and am surprised his mother didn't join in. George spends the second half of the film looking like he's about to burst into tears ... or maybe slicing onions (which would have been more interesting than this rubbish). George has to do a year's schoolwork in 3 weeks or he won't graduate: naturally he does it (which doesn't show the US education system in a very good light). His final art piece is supposed to be of something that 'moves' him ... I was praying it wasn't a painting of Sally. But of course it was. It wasn't very good, but his art teacher was mystifyingly ecstatic with it. Sally was supposed to be off to Europe with Dustin, but she leaves him at the gate in the airport. Europe's gain is America's loss. This is the first film I have seen with Emma Roberts: I really do hope it's the last. She isn't great. She isn't remotely engaging or enigmatic, and I was struggling to understand why one character loved her, let alone two. She has no charisma whatsoever. This film is really pointless.

I love both the main actors in this film so thought it would be a great film bit maybe not

Boring

Freddie is outstanding in this comedy drama of a long coat wearing troubled teenager, full of angst? worry. who knows..as you'll have to watch it and find out..

Great condition