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Any chance I could take a look at it? I sent you a pm.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Did the movie differ from the script?



Just cuz u think my opinions r wrong still doesn't make yours right. Stupid trollz...

Yes, a great example of this is the opening sequence. We just spend a few seconds with each of the characters but you get all you need to know about them in a realistic and believable way.

Spoilers: For example, we learn that Josh writes and plays his own music and that he's out of step with the other kids around him.

We learn that Sam is a workaholic, succesful, and a man who knows just what he wants, as indicated by when he asks the client in the conference room to sit in a particular seat.

Then we just get a glimpse of Sam seeing the news coverage of the shooting. We see what looks like a body covered with a sheet on a stretcher. We don't know if this is Josh, but we are kind of made to think that maybe it is. It's masterful the way they let your mind fill in all the details, and of course later in the movie discover that you might actually be wrong about those details. I know I was.

You get a sense of how disconnected Sam was from Josh by the fact that his girlfriend had to introduce herself to him. "That's me, there" she says as she points to the photo. It's almost funny, in this devestatingly tragic way.

You see Sam drive away from the house to his own home, and you instantly know they were divorced. The sterileness and sharp angles and glass of Sam's house in stark contrast to hominess of Josh and his mom's house.

All of this in just a few minutes time, with just a handful of sentences and you get a whole universe of backstory and exposition. It was really handled masterfully.

And one last thing, great screenplays often have something tangible you can easily grab onto in the opening scenes that tranforms over the course of the movie, as a kind of tangible representation of our hero's arc, and the story's themes. In this case, the song Josh is working on in the very first scene is the beginnings of what becomes Sing Along, obviously the song sung by Sam in the film's final scene.

Very well-crafted and beautifully rendered. And that song! God damn.