Like Crazy

Sweet and intimate....... intelligent and real, a movie with it's heart in the right place.

College days.... youth and energy at a peak and you have a blooming love story between Jacob, (Anton Yetchin) and Anna ( Felicity Jones). Cute and old fashioned start, where she leaves a long long note on his windshield, asking for a date..... they meet....they hang out.... and then they just start spending all their time together. All too soon summer vacation is here, and Anna is British, so her visa has an expiry date.

She can't bear to leave, even when it means going back to get documentation completed and coming back as planned. They give in to impulse......... and a glorious summer of love and sex. And that one mistake has impact that lasts a life time. It lands them in terrible immigration issues and what ensues are the struggles of a long distance relationship.

The chemistry between them is smoldering and incredible, when together and even when apart. The issues of long distance communication make their brief reunions that much more endearing and intense. 

Yet, when apart, they also indulge in easy, but seemingly unacceptable relationships with other partners. Jacob is into a relationship with his co worker at the furniture design workshop where he designs furniture and Anna is in a relationship with her neighbor. And there's assumptions and pressures and issues. You see the agonizing times when the thumb hovers over the send button to honest messages, and instead sends out carefully worded ones.

The question that seems to get asked is..you know you are in love with 'The One', yet there are other 'ones', and how much can it distract and take away. This movie is not for those who believe in 'The One', or 'Soul Mates' which can outlast anything and everything......in here the other relationships seem to seep into the very fabric of their love and leave them torn somewhere in between. Not as much their own but their inability to accept it in the other. 

I never really understood why Jacob couldn't get a visa to England. His love and effort seem sincere and honest enough, but I guess when you're in love what's needed is less sincerity and honesty, and more a craziness to do what it takes. The 'Like Crazy' is just more her than him I thought.

A definitely worthy watch.