Crazy in Love

Silver Linings Playbook follows a former teacher who lost his job for brutally beating a fellow teacher who was having an affair with his wife beating him within an inch of his life. The film is a based on a book written by Matthew Quick and follows Pat Solitano a bi-polar former teacher who has just been released after an 8-month stay at a mental hospital. When he is released his only goal is to win back his cheating wife even though all of his loved ones and some generous cops advise him to stay away from her or end up back in the institute. Pat upon release moves back in with his parents, his mother a loving women and his father a huge Philadelphia Eagles fan. The person who ends up changing Pat for the good ends up being arguably crazier then him, Tiffany a widow trying to figure things out to. She continues to run into Pats life literally, he jogs every day and Tiffany knowing his route tries to run with him much to his dismay. Tiffany convinces Pat to help her and join her at her dance competition as long as Tiffany can get a letter to Pat's vacant wife. This leads to mayhem but also leads to true love.

David Russel who wrote the adapted script for the film also directed the film beautifully. He uses specific camera angles to show the strain in his characters. Through out the film he rushes the camera up to the characters face so it feels as if your there with them and it tends to seem disoriented just like the thought process of the characters, specifically the three main characters played by De Niro, Cooper, and Lawrence. The disoriented camera feel makes the nervousness of these characters come to life. The setting also attributed to this feeling, the family lives in middle class Philly where everyone knows everyone so every little thing spreads around the town like wild fire.

This movie has some of the best and most uplifting acting I have seen in a long time. The passion you see from De Niro and Cooper together in a scene make it seem this is documentary and the characters are real people. The performance of De Niro and Cooper are incredible on their own, but Jennifer Lawrence's portrayal of Tiffany is what you'll probably leave the theater talking about. Lawrence adds the perfect amount of crazy and anger to make you feel her pain but also feel her love for Pat as it grows throughout the movie.

This is just a good movie worth watching, you’ll fall in love with Lawrence and De Niro's characters and cheer and root for Cooper as his character goes from mental institute to falling in love all over again and learning he’s not as crazy as he thinks.