Review of The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) by Kirollos-Noah — 10 Nov 2019

I watched this movie knowing nothing but the cast, I only heard of it once or twice, but I didn't know anything about the story, I didn't even watch the trailer for this movie... And I'm so happy to say this: This movie is a blast from start to finish, I had the time of my life watching this movie, it just put a smile on my face during the whole runtime!

The Peanut Butter Falcon discusses some serious actual problems, how simple things we do can effect a guy with a Down syndrome, even if we don't say "that word" it still hurts, our action, the way we deal with them.. our look at them, simple things we might NOT even care of! The movie even has a scene of LaBeouf and Johnson while Labeouf is telling her how her actions were looking like, how she was offending Zac, even though she didn't even call him "that".. the movie discusses that in a beautiful and a deep way, in so many different ways.

The movie also discusses other things about dreams and how we choose to achieve them, even though in some scenes it lost realism, it lost it to show us that we tell ourselves that that is impossible, and I won't achieve that because of whatever I might think my problems are, it lost it on purpose to show the audience that nothing is impossible! There's a scene where The Salt Water Redneck, played by Thomas Haden Church, was talking to Zac about a move he used to do, and how it was fake because it wasn't possible, but it was Zac's dream to learn how to do.. I don't want to spoil anything, but later on we get to know that it's possible, though in real life it's really not that easy to do all of a sudden, but the movie does that in a way that it's beautiful and relatable, more than an illogic thing! That being said because I saw people nitpicking this as a flaw, and I think it's because they didn't get what the movie was trying the say at the end, they didn't get the movie at all, because the movie didn't go in a cliched way to say "hey, nothing is impossible", it chose some kind of a fantasy to show that, and for me that was a good and creative way to show it!

What makes this movie really works is the cast, everyone was outstanding in this movie, especially LaBeouf, he gave us his best performance ever, it's one of the best performances of the year, he was funny, emotional and lovable at times, his character also has a great backstory that was shown in a beautifully shot way! Gottsagen is also amazing in this movie, it's his first movie, but he's so talented, he also was funny, emotional, deep, adorable and lovable too, he makes you feel for him, and routing for him in his journey, and wanting him to succeed on his mission, and that isn't an easy thing to do in your first movie ever, but Gottsagen did that amazingly and with so much talent! Dakota Johnson also gave us one of her -if not the- best performance, her character has also one of these scenes where she tells LaBeouf how her job is hard, and how she feels about it, but even though she keeps doing that... Though she's rich, was mentioned in one scene, and graduated from a very good and expensive university, she still wants to do that job instead of working at well-known companies and getting well-paid, that could also be inspiring, to do whatever you want, no matter how much you get paid, or whoever your family is, you just follow your heart and you'd do great stuff at what you love, that's also mentioned in a scene where Zac was telling Tyler how he loves Eleanor, and how she's great at her job.

This movie is also beautifully shot, Nilson and Schwartz did a great job capturing the countryside, with deep impact, and amazing cinematography! Each scene was so amazing, and it's so good to see and pick those messages -because this movie has plenty of messages- without making characters saying much about them, or making them obvious, that made the movie very impressive and interesting!

The Peanut Butter Falcon is a beautiful movie, well-shot and has one of the best performances of the year by its 3 leads, with amazing messages at the end to get out with, this is definitely one of the best movie of this year!

The Peanut Butter Falcon of course gets an A+! It's the third movie this year that I give an A+ to, 2019 is such a great year for movies, and I'm so happy about that.