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A Case of You is an American romantic comedy film, starring Justin Long and Evan Rachel Wood. Directed by Kat Coiro, with a script written by Justin Long, his brother Chris and actor Keir O’Donnell, the movie tells the story of Sam (Justin Long), a stagnant New York City writer, who is willing to do absolutely everything he can to earn the attention and the love of Birdie (Evan Rachel Wood), a girl for whom he is deeply infatuated.
Sam is a New York City writer with no inspiration, who mechanically writes novelizations for movies aimed at teen audiences. Nevertheless, he aspires to be a serious writer, and wants to write the great novel of his life, tough he struggles with a lack of inspiration very hard to overcome. When he meets Birdie, a girl that works in a coffee shop close to his home, he suddenly becomes captivated by her astoundingly free and quasi-hippie urban charm. Coming up with a plan to win her heart and affection, Eliot, Sam’s roommate, suggests him to visit her Facebook profile, to discover all the things she likes, and work from there.
Following his friend’s advice, he starts to visit her Facebook profile regularly, and involves himself in all the things she’s interested in, like climbing, martial arts, guitar lessons, dance classes and many more. One day, after seeing on her Facebook that she will attend an event at a performance art club, he accidentally fakes a meeting by chance with Birdie, and they start a very cozy conversation. After both discover the many things they have “in common”, a friendship develops, and very gradually, they become close. Nonetheless, he vehemently continues the ritual to constantly visit her Social Media, and gets more and more involved in her many interests.
Sam is a New York City writer with no inspiration, who mechanically writes novelizations for movies aimed at teen audiences. Nevertheless, he aspires to be a serious writer, and wants to write the great novel of his life, tough he struggles with a lack of inspiration very hard to overcome. When he meets Birdie, a girl that works in a coffee shop close to his home, he suddenly becomes captivated by her astoundingly free and quasi-hippie urban charm. Coming up with a plan to win her heart and affection, Eliot, Sam’s roommate, suggests him to visit her Facebook profile, to discover all the things she likes, and work from there.
Following his friend’s advice, he starts to visit her Facebook profile regularly, and involves himself in all the things she’s interested in, like climbing, martial arts, guitar lessons, dance classes and many more. One day, after seeing on her Facebook that she will attend an event at a performance art club, he accidentally fakes a meeting by chance with Birdie, and they start a very cozy conversation. After both discover the many things they have “in common”, a friendship develops, and very gradually, they become close. Nonetheless, he vehemently continues the ritual to constantly visit her Social Media, and gets more and more involved in her many interests.
Sam’s plan surprisingly works very well, since he learns everything about her, and pretend to have a great degree of affinity to all the things she loves. Although his strategy is a little unorthodox, to say the least, his intentions are genuine, since he is deeply committed to do everything he can to win her affection. Meanwhile, Birdie appears to be very surprised with the fact that both have so many things in common, and develops feelings for Sam, starting to believe that they are soul mates. His plan is such a success, that, after spending a very meaningful time together, upon which they became very close, Birdie eventually declares her love for Sam. Excited and thrilled with joy and amazement, Sam’s life enters such a high point that he is able to finally overcome his writer’s block, and starts writing a very good novel, based on his relationship to Birdie. Unfortunately, at some point Sam gets tired of following her extremely active life, and becomes disturbed with the fact that she doesn’t know him well. After telling her that, being very rude to Birdie in one meeting that she prepared very gently for both, to have a special time together, he realizes how awful he was, and, after cooling down, he gets the righteous perception that it is not her fault that she doesn’t know him well. After all, he chose to pretend being someone he wasn’t, in a desperate attempt to please her, and win her heart. In a dance competition, he decides to apologize, and finally reveals to her that he has been watching each and every interest of hers that she posted about on Social Network, to which she replies – to his complete surprise – that she already knew what he was doing, as she posted interests on her profile just to see if he would say soon that he liked exactly the same thing. Forgiving Sam for his previous rudeness, both declare their mutual love for each other, dance, and live happily ever after!
Well, what can I say, besides the fact that this movie is marvelous? Evan Rachel Wood and Justin Long are astonishingly great together, being the sweetest couple I have ever seen in modern movies! They have an amazing chemistry, and the love and the sincerity that their respective characters are able to achieve onscreen are simply too good to be true, but it is! Both transpire some kind of light drama, sincere happiness and a very wishful desire to live life at the fullest, in such profound characters, filled with joy and expectation, with eyes shining bright towards what the future reserves, that you cannot be indifferent to the intensity that both convey into the screen. The amazing plot, the funny scenes, the romantic drama and their personal struggles are very well combined, being able to deliver a very decent, funny, incredible and creative story, filled with love and sentimental redemption, but without the weight of real life drama and darkness, having the distinction of not being just another alienated romance movie at the same time. With a great profusion of humorous scenes and light moments as well, that combines all the great elements essential for an awesome movie, A Case of You easily escapes the clichés of the genre, being very lucid, original, and laughable at the same time.
Unlike the vast majority of modern movies, who tend to ignore it, Social Media plays a very important part in the plot devices, although always subjectively, exploring how people can easily connect to one another in the web. A great cast of actors and actresses play little parts in the movie as well, like Brendan Fraser, Sam Rockwell, Sienna Miller and Vince Vaughn.
Although some things in this movie are really implausible in real life circumstances – a man would hardly learn how to climb, take martial art classes, read poetry or learn how to become a master in French cuisine to please a woman [well, primarily, because it will be necessary to quit his job to have the time, and also own a very decent bank account to pay for all this] – all these plot arrangements are reasonably combined and structured brightly together, working really well in a very appealing, funny and sensitive story, that will make you laugh hysterically, and cry deeply, all at the same time. And when the movie is over, you will be dying to see it again! Surprisingly, the movie was not well received by critics and the public alike, receiving generally very unfavorable reviews in movie websites.
Regardless, this movie really deserves five stars! Even more, so to speak! As long as I can remember, I have never seen such an excellent and wonderful romantic comedy, although I could be labeled a partner in crime here, since I really love Evan Rachel Wood, and Justin Long, for both have the ability to portray real life characters with really difficult problems in such a light, serene and easy mood, without being shallow or artificial! They are so profound and cool at the same time, that, for the first time in my life, I wished a movie to have a sequence! Oh, for sure, this movie would certainly deserve one. Check it out, you will not regret!
Wagner
Unlike the vast majority of modern movies, who tend to ignore it, Social Media plays a very important part in the plot devices, although always subjectively, exploring how people can easily connect to one another in the web. A great cast of actors and actresses play little parts in the movie as well, like Brendan Fraser, Sam Rockwell, Sienna Miller and Vince Vaughn.
Although some things in this movie are really implausible in real life circumstances – a man would hardly learn how to climb, take martial art classes, read poetry or learn how to become a master in French cuisine to please a woman [well, primarily, because it will be necessary to quit his job to have the time, and also own a very decent bank account to pay for all this] – all these plot arrangements are reasonably combined and structured brightly together, working really well in a very appealing, funny and sensitive story, that will make you laugh hysterically, and cry deeply, all at the same time. And when the movie is over, you will be dying to see it again! Surprisingly, the movie was not well received by critics and the public alike, receiving generally very unfavorable reviews in movie websites.
Regardless, this movie really deserves five stars! Even more, so to speak! As long as I can remember, I have never seen such an excellent and wonderful romantic comedy, although I could be labeled a partner in crime here, since I really love Evan Rachel Wood, and Justin Long, for both have the ability to portray real life characters with really difficult problems in such a light, serene and easy mood, without being shallow or artificial! They are so profound and cool at the same time, that, for the first time in my life, I wished a movie to have a sequence! Oh, for sure, this movie would certainly deserve one. Check it out, you will not regret!
Wagner
