The Spectacular Now

The movie The Spectacular Now directed by James Ponsoldt is an emotional but realistic movie about Sutter Keely who is afraid of growing up so believes he should be ”… in living in the now”. Sutter is a high school senior who is popular, loves his job, is the life of the party and has no plans for the future. After getting drunk one night he wakes up on a lawn with Amy Finicky hovering over him, she is quite, not popular, never had a boyfriend and unlike Sutter she has dreams. Although the two of them are so different they are drawn to each other. The Spectacular Now has been nominated and won numerous awards.
I think Sutter’s relationship with alcohol is very dangerous because Sutter begins to rely on drinking to help him forget his issues.
Eventually Sutter drinks himself to the point where he alienates others around him, cuts everything bad out of his life and is fired from his job because he cannot promise his boss that he will stop drinking at work, “… I cannot promise you that because without it I do not know what to do!”At the end of the movie Sutter‘s drinking gets very out of control and he drives home drunk and crashes, at this point his mother tells him that he is “…nothing like his father but he needs to sort his life out or he will be ”. In the end scene of the movie Sutter
Sutter parties and drinks a lot without thinking about the consequences of his actions; he does not have a plan for the future, he never does any school work and he has an extremely relaxed attitude towards life. Sutter was very good at manipulating and charming his way out of situations that he didn’t want to be involved in an example of this is schoolwork, when he is questioned by his teachers about it he tries to change the subject, “... new hair cut Mr Patrick?” or tells them that he will “…bring it tomorrow!” even though he never does and because of this may people around him gave up on him. His idea behind “living in the now” was that he shouldn’t have to do work because you never know what is going to happen in the future so why bother and waste time now doing it. Many teenagers can relate to this because at this age many of us simply just “…can’t be bothered caring anymore” or do not care about our future. A lot of people begin to make excuses for the things they have done and the choices they have made to make them feel better about it, but what we need to understand is that there comes a time in our life where need to grow up, take responsibility for our actions and make important life choices. As the movie begins to come to an end we discover that Sutter was terrified of the future, scared of growing old and worried how he will fit