Laggies (2014)
Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to, Megan is comfortable lagging a few steps behind - while her friends check off milestones and celebrate their new grown-up status. When her high-school sweetheart proposes, Megan panics and- given an unexpected opportunity to escape for a week - hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year old Annika and Annika's world-weary single dad Craig.
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Crappy film
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
I like how, every time I watch this movie as I get older, it makes more and more sense to me, as I relate more and more with Keira's character. I wish to be as happy as she is and as careless about the world when she is laying low.
Found this movie entertaining and absorbing. Keira Knightley who stands through as an important carer giver and taker; is like an imaginary sister. The picture is a source to understand that 'life is not perfect'; with ups and downs in relationships which are essentially by blood. The father and daughter; Keira and father. The mother and child; Keira and mother are both relationships where meaning can and is derived; watch out for life and death under the visual stimulus. Visual treats are Keira herself with hands by side of a teenager who she meets. The methods to instill justice over the whereabouts of life could be claimed as a plot narrative. In the end an appreciation of circumstances are found or not meant literally by Hollywood; is the Indian appreciation of this movie. Letting nothing go to dumpsters: life consisting of food, shelter and clothing suits us well through the movie screening. Terrific visual movie with suitable buddies.
A young-looking-for-her-age Keira Knightley suffers with Peter Pan syndrome, running away from responsibilities. When marriage becomes an option, she bolts from her fiancé, hiding from him at a new friend's place. This friend is a high-schooler (Moretz), well under Knightley's age but level with her maturity. Comfort's hard to come by in Say When (that's Laggies in America), especially in its lead lady. It does, however, come from Moretz's dad Sam Rockwell. He's the heart and soul amongst a barren wasteland of stale, lifeless characters. This is a romantic-comedy with little romance and hardly any comedy (unless it comes from Rockwell). When romance does come, it's almost over, and whoever's stuck it through to the end probably doesn't care.
I was expecting more hilarious and absurd comedy, I mean the summary made it sound like it could be that. But Laggies turned out to be deeper. It reminded me of Liberal Arts by Josh Radnor, since both movies deal with growing up, etcetera.Megan was easy to relate to as a character. Even though her character seemed to revolve a lot around how she felt "out of place" and unsure, she didn't become a simple symbol of said feeling. She had other traits too. Even though there has been better written characters, I liked her a lot.I love how the message isn't really about finding your own place in the world, it's more like it's alright if you don't have it all figure out. Life just happens. I really liked Laggies, though it wasn't at all what I was expecting. It was fun, light and still meaningful. This movie is entertainment you don't have to start analysing, but you still can, because it really does have a purpose. I would warmly recommend this movie to anyone.