I first heard about this movie from one of my best friends when she visited me in Florida. Being curious on rainy night, I set out on a quest to watch Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist when I should have been studying for a report...
Looking at the DVD cover I didn’t gain much of an idea what of the film is about. All I could surmise had been that maybe it would contain a lot of cool songs (coming from the word playlist in the title…and it is infinite, lol). Or, possibly, it would turn out to be another one of those chick flicks with a feel good ending.
Well, I was in for a surprise! The plot is simple yet complicated. Nick (Michael Cera) is the leading guitarist in a band with his two best friends Dev and Thom (Rafi Gavron and Aaron Yoo). He is currently brokenhearted (it has been exactly three weeks, two days, and 23 hours since his separation from former girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena)). Nick decides to join his friends for a night out in New York City to help his psyche recover. Surprisingly, he finds adventure. He encounters Norah (Kat Dennings) who asks Nick to be her boyfriend for five minutes in an act of social desperation. After her drunken girlfriend Caroline (Ari Graynor) runs off into the middle of NYC, Nick and Norah (along with his band mates) scour the city in search of her. Meanwhile, a suddenly jealous Tris, (the ex girlfriend) tries to find out if Nick still has feelings for her.
This movie is not among the best that I have watched. I would describe it as a "contemporary" romance picture. It has all the necessary elements in it. As the movie goes on, one can see the characters develop. There are no adults in this film, only adventurous teenagers. The filmographers show New York the way it would appear to a youngster at night. No danger, just bright lights, good music, great friends, and the world seems to belong to them. Nothing really matters except for whatever they were thinking about at that moment.
I would recommend this for a girls’ night out DVD marathon. You may watch it with your boyfriend also since it is not a syrupy melt in your mouth romance. It involves two teens developing a soulful romance in the heart of New York City, what more can be said about that?
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