The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

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  d_riptide

  9 / 10

  I know we’re a little halfway through the year already but I’m standing by what I say right here and now: “The Peanut Butter Falcon” is, hands down, THE feel-good movie of the year. Among the many moments in film this year that I wanted to cry to, this film gave me the urge to cry the most; and not just cry, literally bawl out loud. This modern day version of “The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn” is modernized to a wholeheartedly deep and compelling structure, it’s tone is both lighthearted and personally effecting, the world-building sets up the tone perfectly for this story and for a story as cliched as this, the performances elevate it to an emotional level that feels anything beyond genuine and beyond human. Zack Gottsagen and Shia LaBeouf deliver Oscar-worthy performances that carry the entire message of the movie around friendship, perseverance and acceptance and that’s one reason why I gotta give the directors a crap ton of credit here cause it goes to show that sometimes diversity is good when you know how to properly execute it.
  
  Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz could’ve went the typical route as far as downgrading the people or person with a disorder or disease just because but they knew better. Anybody can catch a condition or a disease and go from normal to f-ed up within a weeks time so it doesn’t really matter as far as WHO it happens to because we’re supposed to matter as who we are on the INSIDE. And people’s thoughts and feelings matter. Doesn’t matter what’s happening on the outside as long as you pay attention to what’s going on in your heart, in their heart.
  
  Don’t judge a book by its cover. It’s one thing to harden your heart than it is to open it back up.

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