"Adventureland" another movie based in Pittsburgh. Ahhh…. Pittsburgh. My home for 19 months. I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I watch a movie based in Pittsburgh. This was the third one I have seen so far.
Lately I have seen few movies ("The Reader", "My Summer of Love", and some more) where the teen main lead spends his or her summer vacation indulging in endless sexcapades. I had to go to stupid summer camps. Do share what you guys did during your vacations. This movie though has a nice feel to it. Guy graduating from high school has dreams of studying in Columbia. His biggest nightmare is to be stuck in Pittsburgh and go to school there. (I took that offensively) At one point his mom suggests him to take up a program in U Pitt and he looks at her as if he is going to throw up. He has cut short his Europe backpack trip because his father was demoted. So instead to make sure he has enough money to reach newyork he has to work in a summer carnival. He meets interesting people there, I would say nice development of characters, that was one of the few positive points about the movie. Ofcourse he meets a girl and falls madly in love wit her. He is a guy who calls sex or "doing it" as "intercourse". Probably one of the reasons he was a virgin in the story. The girl is played my Kristen Stewart, the star of Twilight Saga. She shows interest in our guy, an interest which seems confusing to me because she is happily sleeping around with an older man working at the Carnival who is a part time rock star as per his claims. The lead role is played by Jesse Eisenberg who I have seen in a very nice movie called Squid and the Whale. His character is very similar in both movies.
When I watch such movies, they go really well until all comes crashing down in the end with a very atypical all happy ending. For once, show the guy not getting the girl. In this case our boy finally looses his virginity in New York where he finally comes running behind his "one true love".
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