NON SPOILER PART:
The movie as a whole tends to shy away from its own message. So whilst they do chuck a lot at the wall with storylines it all felt a bit lacking of cause and effect.
Act one and two feel like they are building up to something big. The mother character has some pretty bonkers expositon about the marriage issues which is fun, and there are tid bits of interesting character developments throughout. Probably could have done with a bit more on the whole Ricky situation. The conflict between the Christian and athiest teens was also fun and fairly well acted.
SPOILER PART: My biggest problem was with the end, all the while we are seemingly building up to something. I'm still not sure whether the outing scene actually happened, or whether Bob was just talking about Logan? It cuts straight to Logan after the drunken outing and then nothing is mentioned again until the mother is having a pretty unprompted separation convo with the father.
Also, yes there is the argument of the "poeticness" of it all. However, It cuts to black before the final and only gay kiss. That was infuriating, probably would have given a 7 if they showed it at least. What a massive F You to the questioning/gay kids watching who will be desperate to see the actual romantic act in what is actually pretty bare bones when it comes to celebrating acceptance.
Act one and two feel like they are building up to something big. The mother character has some pretty bonkers expositon about the marriage issues which is fun, and there are tid bits of interesting character developments throughout. Probably could have done with a bit more on the whole Ricky situation. The conflict between the Christian and athiest teens was also fun and fairly well acted.
SPOILER PART: My biggest problem was with the end, all the while we are seemingly building up to something. I'm still not sure whether the outing scene actually happened, or whether Bob was just talking about Logan? It cuts straight to Logan after the drunken outing and then nothing is mentioned again until the mother is having a pretty unprompted separation convo with the father.
Also, yes there is the argument of the "poeticness" of it all. However, It cuts to black before the final and only gay kiss. That was infuriating, probably would have given a 7 if they showed it at least. What a massive F You to the questioning/gay kids watching who will be desperate to see the actual romantic act in what is actually pretty bare bones when it comes to celebrating acceptance.