'Silver Linings Playbook' movie review

One of the top Oscar contenders, David O. Russel's dramedy Silver Linings Playbook has finnally arrived to my torrent folder (before you judge me, the movie hasn't been distributed in my country, among many other great ones) and I decided I had to review this one, being one of the main acts of the Oscar season and everything. I was also looking forward to it a lot, as I really like Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence (duh) and it really semt like this kind of quirky, comedy-drama, ironic-one-liners kind of movie that I usually enyoy. So the movie focuses on Pat, a bipolar guy with anger issues who returns from a mental institution to finally get back from his life, but with the arrival of other, also not so normal characters, his life gets anything but normal again.

Now the movie is really fucking great. And I mean really great. It would have quite probably made my Top 10 of 2012 list, if I would have seen it in the past year. First of all, something preceeded by all those awards and Oscar nominations is for sure - the acting is beyond amazing. Bradley Cooper gives the performance of his career as the bipolar Pat, and gives us an incredibly realistic depiction of the disease, while also allowing us to relate to his character greatly. The way he rages out, the way he says innapopriate things, he doesn't says them like House or sounds like he's being mean or sarcastic, but he really says them like he can't help myself and like he would be bipolar. Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro are in spectacular form as well, making this movie be quite worthy of being the first movie since I-don't-know-when to be nominated in all four acting categories at the Oscars.

But it does deserve awards in other categories, too. This film really is the definition of a dramedy, and should be a role model for all other dramedies. The way it balances the comedy and the drama is unbelieveably perfect, just as much as being balanced in the word "dramedy". It manages to be so funny and positive-spirited at the same time, while also being something, that I can't call exactly dark or sad, but simply life-like. Just like real life is, full of comedy and drama, positive and negative, this movie pulls it off perfectly. The director's visual style, the editing, the music, everything builds up to this poignant, hilarious, amazingly acted, emotionally affecting and realistic dramedy, as what Silver Linings Playbook definitely is.

Total rating: 9 / 10

So what did you think of Silver Linings Playbook? Did you like it, dislike it, why? Do you think it should win any of the Oscars it's nominated for? Comment below, let me know!