Stand By Me
Rank 175 as of January 1st 2013)
Age Rating 15
Year 1986
Age Rating 15
Year 1986
I apologise in advance for the non-goodness of this review. Its 2:42 in the morning, I can't really see my keyboard and most importantly I haven't wrote a review in over one month, oh dear.
So, Stand By Me. Well, what a film. It's so good. Everything about it, its perfect almost! The 'child' actors, I think, did the best job that any child actors have ever done, giving the movie so much depth and feeling.
It's based around 4 friends in the summer of '59 who, when finding out where the body of a boy that had gone missing is they go on a search to find the body as to become famous for being the people who found it.
It's based around 4 friends in the summer of '59 who, when finding out where the body of a boy that had gone missing is they go on a search to find the body as to become famous for being the people who found it.
Stand By Me is about friendship, apparently the best kind is when you are at the age of 12, which they all were. But these four friends all do have things, that would hold them back lets say. Gordie, who when he is an adult, narrates the film. He lost his older brother 4 months before the search of the body. He had become 'the invisible child', ignored by his parents. Vern is the fat kid of the group and of course he always gets teased and the mick taken out of him. Teddy's father is abusive, yet Teddy still always stands up for him, much to the others amazement. He often makes remarks on how his father fought at the beaches in Normandy (WWII). Chris, the leader of the group as such, comes from a family who are all 'bad'. He wished that he can get somewhere in life, but his family's reputation disallows him to do it.
This movie is timeless, it can be enjoyed by all generations. Not to mention the perfect soundtrack.
By Georgina,
27/08/2013
27/08/2013
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