The Spectacular Now Response
Name: Yutong Liu
Id: N19382043
Response Paper
“The Spectacular Now” is a movie that mainly talks about the love between two high school seniors, charming Sutter and beautiful Aimee. The film begins with Sutter is upset about he just lost her girlfriend Cassidy. Sutter was drunk and he was sleeping in a stranger’s yard. In the morning, Aimee woke him up. This was the first time that he met Aimee. Sutter began to get closer to Aimee and then they fell in love with each other. I want to talk about three common conceptions that I found from the movie and the readings. First, from the book, it provides an idea that although family is important in the lives of adolescents, friends become preferred. Adolescents depends more on friends than
on their parents or siblings. Intimacy describes two people share knowledge, thoughts, and feelings. The movie “The Spectacular now” has lots of scenes can illustrate this idea. For example, in the movie, Sutter helped his best friend to find girlfriend. Also, Aimee’s best friend Krystal sees through Sutter and tells him do not treat Aimee bad cause Aimee is a genuinely good person. From those plots, I can conclude that the intimacy friendship between two people is very important for adolescents. Second, in the book, it talks about the love and sexuality between adolescents. The romantic relationships increase gradually during the course of adolescence. From the survey, a romantic relationship rises from 17% in seventh grade to 32%in ninth grade to 44% in eleventh grade. By eleventh grade 80% of adolescents had experienced a romantic relationship. From the movie, I know Sutter and Aimee are high school seniors, so they are apparently in an age that wants to have romantic relationship with someone. In the movie, Sutter invited Aimee to several parties, and after party they have some cute love scenes and they have sex. Finally, in the reading, it talked about the five features of emerging adults. There are identity exploration, instability, self-focus, feeling in between, and possibilities. From the movie, I found Sutter totally belongs to self-focus feature. For example, he always said that I just want to do something. All in all, this movie is about the true love between two adolescents. The movie let me remembered lots of my high school memories. Moreover, I learned a lot from the movie and the readings. For example, I learned how two people interact when they are during the adolescent period.
Id: N19382043
Response Paper
“The Spectacular Now” is a movie that mainly talks about the love between two high school seniors, charming Sutter and beautiful Aimee. The film begins with Sutter is upset about he just lost her girlfriend Cassidy. Sutter was drunk and he was sleeping in a stranger’s yard. In the morning, Aimee woke him up. This was the first time that he met Aimee. Sutter began to get closer to Aimee and then they fell in love with each other. I want to talk about three common conceptions that I found from the movie and the readings. First, from the book, it provides an idea that although family is important in the lives of adolescents, friends become preferred. Adolescents depends more on friends than
on their parents or siblings. Intimacy describes two people share knowledge, thoughts, and feelings. The movie “The Spectacular now” has lots of scenes can illustrate this idea. For example, in the movie, Sutter helped his best friend to find girlfriend. Also, Aimee’s best friend Krystal sees through Sutter and tells him do not treat Aimee bad cause Aimee is a genuinely good person. From those plots, I can conclude that the intimacy friendship between two people is very important for adolescents. Second, in the book, it talks about the love and sexuality between adolescents. The romantic relationships increase gradually during the course of adolescence. From the survey, a romantic relationship rises from 17% in seventh grade to 32%in ninth grade to 44% in eleventh grade. By eleventh grade 80% of adolescents had experienced a romantic relationship. From the movie, I know Sutter and Aimee are high school seniors, so they are apparently in an age that wants to have romantic relationship with someone. In the movie, Sutter invited Aimee to several parties, and after party they have some cute love scenes and they have sex. Finally, in the reading, it talked about the five features of emerging adults. There are identity exploration, instability, self-focus, feeling in between, and possibilities. From the movie, I found Sutter totally belongs to self-focus feature. For example, he always said that I just want to do something. All in all, this movie is about the true love between two adolescents. The movie let me remembered lots of my high school memories. Moreover, I learned a lot from the movie and the readings. For example, I learned how two people interact when they are during the adolescent period.