![]() But the letters are dropped when this miraculously rich and painful freshman year begins flowing into the stories of his wallflower circle of friends: Patrick (Ezra Miller), the gay friend in love with a closeted jock, and Sam (Emma Watson), that not so obscure object of Charlie’s battered teenage longing. In the beginning, we see Charlie (Logan Lerman) writing about his scary first day of high school, hinting at some trauma that may just trump normal adolescent angst. But Chbosky has the genius to abandon his own literary device when it might slow the narrative flow of his film. (Chbosky is only the second in history to attempt this feat, preceded by author-turned-director Michael Crichton and his The Great Train Robbery, which was nowhere near as masterfully done as this.) The film opens like the book, as a letter written to a (possibly) imaginary friend. ![]() Against all odds and certainly against the common practices of Hollywood, Stephen Chbosky has adapted his own wildly successful cult novel for the screen and then, truly remarkably, directed the film with sensitivity and style. ![]()
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