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ACTOR
Deb LewisSamuel PettitSean RoseRoben R. Sullivant
DIRECTOR
Mark Thiedeman
SYNOPSICS
Last Summer (2013) is a English movie. Mark Thiedeman has directed this movie. Deb Lewis,Samuel Pettit,Sean Rose,Roben R. Sullivant are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2013. Last Summer (2013) is considered one of the best Drama,Romance movie in India and around the world.
Two high school sweethearts, Luke and Jonah, spend their final months together over the course of a long, quiet summer in the rural South--a world of baseball, bicycles, church and green bean casserole--contemplating their uncertain future and the uncertain future of America.
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Last Summer (2013) Reviews
Beautiful and powerful
Last Summer is about two teenage boys, Luke and Jonah, during the summer after their last year of high school in a small town in Arkansas. They have been best friends since they were toddlers and lovers for an unspecified amount of time - presumably since puberty made it possible. Their families and everybody they know knows about and supports their relationship. Jonah is a gifted student, artist and musician, while Luke isn't good at anything except sports, so they complement and help each other. They will be parting for the first time in their lives at the end of the summer, when Jonah goes north for college and Luke stays. This is a blissful, idyllic fantasy that feels completely true. If I didn't know that boys like these would NEVER receive such support in such a town (they even sit together in church), I would believe it was a true story, even a documentary. Although rationally I know it's impossible, it's so real and true emotionally that what ends up being impossible is NOT believing in it. Nothing much happens in this movie. There's some voice-over narration and some dialog, but it's primarily a sensual movie, a series of exquisitely beautiful visual and aural images that are impossible to describe adequately. Images of nature, of the boys in extreme closeup, many abstract images that are unidentifiable but powerfully evocative of the quiet, sensual, languid world in which the boys live. The score - when there is a score - is lyrical piano music by Beethoven and Schumann. Last Summer is like a poem - about love, about beauty, about peace, about perfect harmony with the natural world. It's extraordinary and indescribable. I never recommend that straight people watch gay movies, because if a gay movie is acceptable to straights it's by definition a failure. But this movie is so beautiful that I'm breaking that rule. Whoever you are, your life will be enriched if you see it.
It had potential
The story and the characters were all very cohesive and well written. The plot was pretty solid, and the themes were noticeable. However, all this said, the execution is a whole other story. While I understand the cinematography was trying to set a tone of despair and depression, it was rather boring and dragged on for too long. Many of the shots were utterly pointless and a waste of time. The acting was fine, but not really convincing. The way it was edited and shot, made it seem like there was only 1 camera. The editing itself had its problems too, with cuts between people in conversations abrupt and ametuer-ish. Also the movie has TONS OF EXPOSITION DUMPS through his voice overs. While voice overs done right are awesome, they can also fail spectacularly which is what happened here. Honestly I don't understand how this movie has so many good reviews, no one in their right mind would give it above 4 stars. Not the worst movie I've ever seen, but pretty damn atrocious. DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE
"Things Don't Last"
A beautiful, evocative, complex movie. Possibly to have the full emotional impact on the viewer, it must find resonance in the store of memories of the viewer. I cannot say whether someone who grew up in an urban setting or in a different culture would be as affected, but there should be some degree of universality to the experience of bonding to another in childhood and facing the prospect of separation and the imperative to follow separate paths. The young actors who play Jonah and Luke do a superb job and the few supporting cast are good, but the greatest superlatives go to the director, the writer and especially the cinematographer. The visual presentation with accompanying sounds, is almost overwhelming in quantity and effect. The surrounding woods and greenery, rain falling, polished wood floors and furniture, weathered wood out buildings , church bells, chiming clocks, a passing freight train and the sad sound of its horn, wind chimes, metal surfaces, the boys together, all stir memories either real or imagined. Its nuanced subtlety is far more powerful than would have been achieved through a series of more deliberate actions and excess dialogue. Rob Reiner's "Stand By Me" was a wonderful film that stirred memories of childhood and the coming to terms with inevitable change, but it pales in emotional impact compared to "Last Summer." Luke carries the label of "slow learner" and is repeating some classes in high school in order to be done with school, but has no idea what he will do next. Outwardly he is at peace with himself, is resigned to Jonah leaving for college, prefers remaining in "the shade of his own backyard," but beneath the surface he is deeply saddened at the prospect of separating from Jonah. At one time he tells Jonah he only wants to be with him and suggests the optimistic possibility that Jonah could return one day. "This place isn't going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere." But inwardly he knows full well that Jonah will meet new people who will love him and will never return. Jonah asks Luke several times to tell him not to go, but Luke refuses. Luke tells a teacher that Jonah is too good for all this recognizing that "Some people feel so comfortable in one place, and others feel trapped." His love for Jonah and a mature understanding of their different natures and abilities prevents him from asking Jonah not to go. Jonah is equally conflicted by his love for Luke, his sense of happiness (when he learns he was adopted) that he was never meant to be in this place, his fear of change and his need to escape from the small town trap where he feels unrelated to everyone and to everything about him, aside from Luke. A wonderful film that is sure to stir memories and emotions for many and I suppose fall flat for those with entirely different experiences or those who disdain sentiment. Certainly anyone who feels a good movie must have car chases, special effects and zombies will be disappointed. I was going to give it a 9 since a 10 would imply perfection, but even after a second viewing I could think of nothing that would justify the loss of a perfect rating.
Hipsters gone wild
The theme was interesting and somewhat different (e.g. no coming out, no hating families nor any drama related to coming out, nor any sudden death). Yet, it could have been so much more. Instead we get images, beautiful images, but no real grasp. If it were a short, of about 30 minutes, it would have been great. However, 1h and 13 minutes is nothing else than hipsters gone wild. The best scene was when Jonah, the alleged genius, makes his mom cry. Very real, and touching. The last 5 minutes showed peace of mind from the main actor, and a resolution. There was a clear end, and it was well done.
They should have call this Bird Chipping and Bad Piano
Don't get me wrong, I usually enjoy slow contemplating movies, I'm a big fan of Gus Van Sant's Gerry and Last Days, the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, but all those authors have something to say and a vision of cinema ... here you just have clichéd shots of spider web, rusty things and rain falling for more than hour, boys hugging and being bored, you wonder why they actually love each other ... they don't have sex, they're just semi catatonic, bored and melancholic, they just lie there or walk and talk about uninteresting things, you keep hearing that one of them is too clever for this town, after a while you get the message. The first time I watched it I kept dozing off, I practically slept through the entire film, that's how boring it was, I could hear people mumbling banalities that pass as profound and poetic dialogues, bird chipping and rain falling ... then I watched it again ... and it was really as tedious as watching paint dry ... the pictures are pretty-ish but nothing great either ... the soundtrack is awful too ... like hearing a student rehearsing piano themes from TV movies ... so this film is good if you want to have a nap but that's about it ...