Review of Now Is Good (2012) by Dave J — 28 Jan 2014

Monday, January 27, 2014.

(2012) Now Is Good.

ROMANTIC DRAMA.

Young actress at an early age Dakota Fanning is starting to do teenage roles, and for awhile I had to get used to her English accent. And upon looking at her with her short-hair almost seemed that she was imitating British actress Carey Mulligan. She plays 17 year old Tessa who was about to make out with someone for the very first time, and then bows out for the last minute. Upon the next day, she then meets with her best friend again, and this time her sleeping partner she initially wanted to make-out with the night before looked at her completely different all of a sudden, and it was during that moment she says 'you've told', and then leaves while disappointed. Viewers at this point, suspect something physically wrong about Tessa which has something to do with her condition but could not our finger on it until she and her dad went to see a doctor. And it was during a conversation with doctors she then refused some kind of treatment to leukemia. This gradual and natural approach is probably the best presentations I had ever saw since almost immediately the movie is expressing through Tessa the person by saying 'don't sympathize with me- I don't want it nor do I need it'. And prefers strangers not to even know about her condition at all while keeping others somewhat informed just because these 'new' people can't do anything more than say 'I feel bad about the way I treated you and I want to be more nicer'- no one likes to be treated in that kind of manner. She often has clashes with her single dad (Paddy Considine) the person she lives with since she want to live her own life the way she feels fit and prefers not to be treated anymore different had she not had known about the diagnosis in the first place. The only thing she did do is give indications that she has already written a 'bucket list' of things she wanted to do which to some viewers is controversial but understandable just the same.

What I liked about this film is the fact that this film is about blue collar people with not a lot of money doing things what blue collar people usually do if we were in that exact same situation which is the drinking your first beer for the first time, the first person you make out with, skinny dipping etc...some of the things we said we'd do only to put it off for a later date. Tess personifies that person in much of the movie we don't really think about ourselves until much later in life. And it doesn't need anyone's sympathy to do these things too.

3 out of 4 stars.