Review: Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook is an American romantic comedy drama film directed by David O. Russell ( The Fighter), from a screenlay by Russell too, adapted from the novel of the same name by Matthew Quick. Bradley Cooper plays Pat Solitano, a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents (Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver). Determined to win back his estranged wife, Pat meets recently-widowed sex addict Tiffany Maxwell (Jennifer Lawrence), who tells him that she will help him get her back if he enters a dance competition with her.

The two become closer as they train and Pat, his father, and Tiffany examine their relationships with each other as they cope with their disorders

This movie is crazy. Literally. Yeah, because this movie is about people with mental disorder =.=. And you will feel that crazy atmosphere when you watch this.

Silver Linings Playbook is a romantic comedy drama. But I like to add the word 'dark' too, because the storyline, the dialogues, the character are kinda tragic but in not serious form. I quitely enjoyed the movie, in some moments I laughed (the comedy works), I smiled at random times (the romantic works), I got moved in some points (the drama works) . This movie is far away from chessy style of  other common romantic comedy drama. The plot went so real, because characters in this movie are presented plainly. 

I think the power of this movie is good acting performance by its all casts. There is no doubt about Jennifer Lawrence's and Bradley Cooper's performance. Oscar was the proof! Plus the supporting casts that have done great works too. Robert De Niro stole my heart :) and Chris Tucker is so natural!

But there are also much flaws in this movie. Sometimes the plot have just gone so far from the 'red line'. Sometimes I didn't get the right emotion at some right moment. This movie itself that ruined my emotion. And at the end, oh, chessy again. But I can accept it .

So, overall this is nice movie, so fresh, so if you are bored with those common romcom movies, this is good pill for you. Or you just love Jennifer Lawrence like me, You should watch this!

Silver Linings Playbook: 7,5/ 10