"Silver Linings Playbook" was already an attractive
movie thanks to its director and cast, especially the two main
characters, two young stars with legions of fans; but interest further increased after its
success at the Toronto Film Festival.
Adapted from the book “The Silver Linings Playbook”
written by Matthew Quick, it is the story of a divorced
teacher who returns to his parents' home after a period in a mental
institution and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. However, his life changes
its course when he meets Tiffany, a girl with her own problems.
The movie deals with the need of being complicit in the
lies of others to be happy and establishes the obligation to
have a happy ending.
We will witness to the least "romantic" of romantic dinners, sex and passions with two of the sexiest performers of the current international panorama; so as to make their roles believable and human,
chases and escapes.
The film makes comparisons
between common rooms in the psychiatric wards and American family rooms... as if the
audience became patients in a group therapy made out of a film.
Maybe a touch of madness might be the solution to stand up to a crazy world and falling in lies and in love could be the best
and biggest medicine of the world.
Russell sells us shame as therapy in a fable
and allegory of the times in which we live where the trick is the public
itself: judge and executioner of its own madness and complicit in the lie
that is projected in front of its eyes.
Director: David O. Russell
Writers: David O. Russell (screenplay), Matthew Quick
(novel)
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De
Niro
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