I TAKE IT BACK!

Remember what I said about the movie "Dare"? Well, I take it all back! After I watched it this past weekend, I couldn't stop thinking about it every day since then. Before, I totally didn't understand the point of the movie. I knew it was supposed to be about the coming-of-age of three teenagers, but it just came off as incomprehensible to me. But then, I read online reviews of it and I began to look at in a new light. Then today, I finally re-watched it and had a whole new appreciation for it. Only really good movies stick with you the way this one did. I guess I was being ignorant of the underlying story when I reviewed it before. I've come to understand that it really is a coming of age story, still centered around Johnny, but it's bigger than that. The acting really was phenomenal and they conveyed brilliantly the sense of despair in trying to figure out yourself and what you're going to do with the rest of your life and who you're going to be. Johnny's story was really about more than just a rich kid with emotionally detached parents. He suffers from panic attacks because he really has no one around that truly loves him, and that's all he's wanted for a really long time. He jumps at the chance that Alexa might actually start to love him, and when Ben takes a liking to him, he feels euphoric, and more happy and complete than he can ever remember feeling. No matter what happens throughout the movie, I've gathered that the entire plot line is centered around the adolescent quest to find someone in this world that will love us, and the willingness to be hurt in the process. Like I said before, the more I watch this movie and the more I think about it, the more I like it. I might actually be starting to love it. I think it's just because I finally think I understand it, but still. I don't mind it anymore. :) (It doesn't hurt that Zach Gilford gets cuter and cuter the more I watch this movie.) ;)