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Manchester by the Sea - Screenplay
The Academy Award–winning screenplay of “a drama of surpassing beauty” (Wall Street Journal)
Kenneth Lonergan’s Academy Award and BAFTA–winning screenplay for the acclaimed film Manchester by the Sea is a staggering achievement and an emotionally devastating meditation on grief.
Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman in Boston. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown, Manchester-by-the-Sea, the fishing village where his working-class family has lived for generations. His brother’s heart has given out suddenly, and he’s been named guardian to his riotous 16-year-old nephew. His return re-opens an unspeakable tragedy, as he is forced to confront a past that separated him from his wife, Randi, and the community where he was born and raised. A sweeping story of loss and new beginnings, Manchester by the Sea “illuminates with quiet, unyielding grace how you and I and our neighbors get by, and sometimes how we don’t” (Boston Globe).
Rounding out the volume is a trenchant and incisive introduction by Kenneth Lonergan on writing for film.
Kenneth Lonergan’s Academy Award and BAFTA–winning screenplay for the acclaimed film Manchester by the Sea is a staggering achievement and an emotionally devastating meditation on grief.
Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman in Boston. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown, Manchester-by-the-Sea, the fishing village where his working-class family has lived for generations. His brother’s heart has given out suddenly, and he’s been named guardian to his riotous 16-year-old nephew. His return re-opens an unspeakable tragedy, as he is forced to confront a past that separated him from his wife, Randi, and the community where he was born and raised. A sweeping story of loss and new beginnings, Manchester by the Sea “illuminates with quiet, unyielding grace how you and I and our neighbors get by, and sometimes how we don’t” (Boston Globe).
Rounding out the volume is a trenchant and incisive introduction by Kenneth Lonergan on writing for film.
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Published January 1, 2016
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August 19, 2022
I’m not sure why but as I was reading this I was thinking about the movie “Good Will Hunting”. Maybe because both are situated in Boston, have blue collar characters and just the overall vibe. I was actually visualizing a younger Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in the movie’s main characters.
With that said the screenplay was good and it was a quick read. Felt the ending could have been a little better.
With that said the screenplay was good and it was a quick read. Felt the ending could have been a little better.
March 5, 2018
This was the first script I've ever read. Now, I've read plenty of plays before and they weren't as different as I had thought they'd be, so I'm not a complete novice. It turns out I like the script format. Devoid of lengthy descriptions and purple prose (which is how I like my stories anyway), it leaves so much more to the imagination. Plus, it's kind of impossible to tell here, everything has to be shown.
As for the story itself, it easily captured the attention and didn't let go. The dialogue was vibrant and the characters quite interesting. It wasn't the most original idea, but I suppose to someone so used to reading fantasy, a lot of real-world stuff doesn't seem original anymore. Still, it was short and fast to read and I enjoyed it. It was also a very good intro to reading scripts in general.
As for the story itself, it easily captured the attention and didn't let go. The dialogue was vibrant and the characters quite interesting. It wasn't the most original idea, but I suppose to someone so used to reading fantasy, a lot of real-world stuff doesn't seem original anymore. Still, it was short and fast to read and I enjoyed it. It was also a very good intro to reading scripts in general.
September 10, 2020
I absolutely adored this screenplay. I could talk for days about the magical manner in which it is presented on the page, the development of the story, the plot twists which made me sob, the small but beautiful nuances and the amount which can be done with minimal dialogue. I read this simultaneously with watching the movie and reading the script and neither of them took away from the other one. Honestly I just loved every second of this.
July 22, 2023
A revisit - Incredibly astute + realistic characterization, no forced tied ribbons, and seamless use of flashback. Inspiring.
September 5, 2024
Curious to hear how much I’ve underestimated the Boston accents when I watch the movie
March 5, 2017
“my heart was broken…it’s always gonna be broken…and I know yours is broken too”
Each year I always try and read the script of the film that wins the Best Screenplay Academy Award – this year the winner of course was Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth Lonergan. It's really beautiful piece of writing that’s quite simple but very emotional. The thing I find so interesting about reading screenplays is picking out the differences between the finished product and what was originally intended, more often than not you see quite a few changes, some minor and others major, whereas with this I feel as though the shooting script is exactly what we see played up there on the screen. I saw an interview with Casey Affleck where he said that when you read a Kenneth Lonergan script you are reading the absolute final script, he takes years and years to write it so you know that by the time you are reading it that he has taken out anything he feels doesn’t need to be included and what you see is what you get. I really like that about him, a writer that’s so confident in his work that when he hands it over to a reader that’s that. Similar to Elena Ferrante saying that if her books have something to say, they will say it, thus why she’s a recluse and doesn’t do any promotional work for her books – my hero.
If you’re a cinephile like me I’d say give this a go, if you’re a fan of Lonergan’s previous work such as Margaret or You Can Count On Me I’d also say give it a go – he is one of those rare male authors/ filmmakers that’s able to write emotional words without being melodramatic.
An enjoyable read. 3.5 stars.
Each year I always try and read the script of the film that wins the Best Screenplay Academy Award – this year the winner of course was Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth Lonergan. It's really beautiful piece of writing that’s quite simple but very emotional. The thing I find so interesting about reading screenplays is picking out the differences between the finished product and what was originally intended, more often than not you see quite a few changes, some minor and others major, whereas with this I feel as though the shooting script is exactly what we see played up there on the screen. I saw an interview with Casey Affleck where he said that when you read a Kenneth Lonergan script you are reading the absolute final script, he takes years and years to write it so you know that by the time you are reading it that he has taken out anything he feels doesn’t need to be included and what you see is what you get. I really like that about him, a writer that’s so confident in his work that when he hands it over to a reader that’s that. Similar to Elena Ferrante saying that if her books have something to say, they will say it, thus why she’s a recluse and doesn’t do any promotional work for her books – my hero.
If you’re a cinephile like me I’d say give this a go, if you’re a fan of Lonergan’s previous work such as Margaret or You Can Count On Me I’d also say give it a go – he is one of those rare male authors/ filmmakers that’s able to write emotional words without being melodramatic.
An enjoyable read. 3.5 stars.
July 9, 2022
“LEE looks a little better than we’ve seen him. He squints at the sea and the wide open sky.”
June 17, 2025
Manchester by The Sea by Kenneth Lonergan – another perspective on this film is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/11/n...
10 out of 10
Manchester by The Sea has been aired recently again, on one of the many film channels that we now have (Alhamdulillah) and if the first time I was not exhilarated, hypnotized in a trance, then the more recent encounter was really enchanting, it could well have to do with the furor surrounding Casey Affleck.
In 2017, when Casey Affleck was nominated and then he won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, there was some backlash because of some things he had done in the past – he had not slapped anyone at a previous Oscars Ceremony, like Will Smith, but still it was bad
Hence, although the movie is excellent, there has been some reserve, due to the fact that, well, if the artist that is supposed to present you with a story for which you have to feel sympathy, if not empathy, then some pity has this background (it looked a major) problem, then there is distance, some rejection
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/11/t... the recently deceased Milan Kundera writes about the difference between pity, which involves an air of superiority, us being above the pitied, and empathy, which happens when we are all at the same level
Lee Chandler aka Casey Affleck is a tragic figure, no doubt about it, and as we gradually (or is it suddenly) find about his drama, we get to see that a troubled actor might know better how to handle such a complicated personage, if he is the main presence, he is also a sort of anti-hero, however much we feel some warmth for him
The young man finds that his dead brother has left a testament, which leaves him ‘in charge of’
Patrick, his nephew, and if he refuses to even contemplate that prospect, we also realize that the brother, Joe Chandler, has had an excellent idea, the responsibility, the need to act might save Lee, who is on a destructive path
This builds up in some ways as a sort of very smart detective story, since we do not know what is wrong with this fellow, why would he reject this notion of just guiding Patrick, who has only a couple of years left before being eighteen (if I am not mistaken), through some steps and then find satisfaction in that
I mean alright, young people these days (and for that matter, this is a terrible cliché, since mature folks keep complaining about the same thing) can be more than a handful, we have some in this gated community of ours that make your hair rise, what with fireworks, urinating on the street and so much more, but still, Lee could have at least expressed some doubts, hesitate, think about it, not look so appalled
Spoiler alert, as mentioned before, we move with the plot, and then find what was so absurd, impossible in the will, for Lee has been determined to either kill himself (he had tried, in the police station, with a gun stolen from a cop) or without that, to live as if this is the torture, punishment he has to endure
He is a janitor in Boston (again, some details are not clear, gone from my mind, but who is to object, not you I hope) and there is a moment when Patrick is infuriated, when the teenager is told that he has to move to the city, because this is where his legal guardian is, and he has a damn smart reply for his relative
‘Why don’t you move here, you are just a janitor, it is not like you could not find places to wash the floors and toilets in Manchester’ this is clearly no quote, but I hope there were words to this effect, even if this is not the problem, Lee does not give a penny for his work, he cares nothing for life now, that is the drama
As it is, with all the catastrophe that we see as the reason for Lee’s attitude, morosity, aloofness, pain, rejection of the will (well, he changes his mind and tries something, not really hard, to begin with) we do have some humor, mixed in all this trauma and PTSD aka Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which is taking the main character down
Patrick aka formidable Lucas Hedges is a very intelligent, pleasant, and sociable, well liked young man, who has…two girlfriends, he has sex with them, but it is not that easy to play with studies, two partners, and especially a morose, obtuse relative, who says he does not like one of the girls and is not cooperating, to use a euphemism
However, as the connection between them develops, Lee starts to offer some support, he even accepts (after much pushing, I think I remember) to cover for his nephew, and walks into the house of one of the girls, to spend some time with the mother, who seemed to fancy the lonely man, and invites him for a drink
While the two teenagers are preparing to have sex, with the knowledge that the uncle will keep mother busy, so she will not come upstairs every other ten minutes, as she always does when there are only the three of them in the house, Lee is acting as if he is an alien (which come to think of it, he is)
He does not respond in any way, and though it is amusing, for in the end, the mother walks up to the room of the naughty teenagers, saying she could not stand another minute, she is trying to talk to the wall, it is also deeply tragic, for we see this is a broken man, he takes no interest in what is otherwise a very charming woman…
Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
From To The Heritage:
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life. As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality. Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“the Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/10/n...
10 out of 10
Manchester by The Sea has been aired recently again, on one of the many film channels that we now have (Alhamdulillah) and if the first time I was not exhilarated, hypnotized in a trance, then the more recent encounter was really enchanting, it could well have to do with the furor surrounding Casey Affleck.
In 2017, when Casey Affleck was nominated and then he won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, there was some backlash because of some things he had done in the past – he had not slapped anyone at a previous Oscars Ceremony, like Will Smith, but still it was bad
Hence, although the movie is excellent, there has been some reserve, due to the fact that, well, if the artist that is supposed to present you with a story for which you have to feel sympathy, if not empathy, then some pity has this background (it looked a major) problem, then there is distance, some rejection
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/11/t... the recently deceased Milan Kundera writes about the difference between pity, which involves an air of superiority, us being above the pitied, and empathy, which happens when we are all at the same level
Lee Chandler aka Casey Affleck is a tragic figure, no doubt about it, and as we gradually (or is it suddenly) find about his drama, we get to see that a troubled actor might know better how to handle such a complicated personage, if he is the main presence, he is also a sort of anti-hero, however much we feel some warmth for him
The young man finds that his dead brother has left a testament, which leaves him ‘in charge of’
Patrick, his nephew, and if he refuses to even contemplate that prospect, we also realize that the brother, Joe Chandler, has had an excellent idea, the responsibility, the need to act might save Lee, who is on a destructive path
This builds up in some ways as a sort of very smart detective story, since we do not know what is wrong with this fellow, why would he reject this notion of just guiding Patrick, who has only a couple of years left before being eighteen (if I am not mistaken), through some steps and then find satisfaction in that
I mean alright, young people these days (and for that matter, this is a terrible cliché, since mature folks keep complaining about the same thing) can be more than a handful, we have some in this gated community of ours that make your hair rise, what with fireworks, urinating on the street and so much more, but still, Lee could have at least expressed some doubts, hesitate, think about it, not look so appalled
Spoiler alert, as mentioned before, we move with the plot, and then find what was so absurd, impossible in the will, for Lee has been determined to either kill himself (he had tried, in the police station, with a gun stolen from a cop) or without that, to live as if this is the torture, punishment he has to endure
He is a janitor in Boston (again, some details are not clear, gone from my mind, but who is to object, not you I hope) and there is a moment when Patrick is infuriated, when the teenager is told that he has to move to the city, because this is where his legal guardian is, and he has a damn smart reply for his relative
‘Why don’t you move here, you are just a janitor, it is not like you could not find places to wash the floors and toilets in Manchester’ this is clearly no quote, but I hope there were words to this effect, even if this is not the problem, Lee does not give a penny for his work, he cares nothing for life now, that is the drama
As it is, with all the catastrophe that we see as the reason for Lee’s attitude, morosity, aloofness, pain, rejection of the will (well, he changes his mind and tries something, not really hard, to begin with) we do have some humor, mixed in all this trauma and PTSD aka Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which is taking the main character down
Patrick aka formidable Lucas Hedges is a very intelligent, pleasant, and sociable, well liked young man, who has…two girlfriends, he has sex with them, but it is not that easy to play with studies, two partners, and especially a morose, obtuse relative, who says he does not like one of the girls and is not cooperating, to use a euphemism
However, as the connection between them develops, Lee starts to offer some support, he even accepts (after much pushing, I think I remember) to cover for his nephew, and walks into the house of one of the girls, to spend some time with the mother, who seemed to fancy the lonely man, and invites him for a drink
While the two teenagers are preparing to have sex, with the knowledge that the uncle will keep mother busy, so she will not come upstairs every other ten minutes, as she always does when there are only the three of them in the house, Lee is acting as if he is an alien (which come to think of it, he is)
He does not respond in any way, and though it is amusing, for in the end, the mother walks up to the room of the naughty teenagers, saying she could not stand another minute, she is trying to talk to the wall, it is also deeply tragic, for we see this is a broken man, he takes no interest in what is otherwise a very charming woman…
Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
From To The Heritage:
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life. As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality. Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“the Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/10/n...
July 1, 2025
منچستر کنار دریا (Manchester by the Sea) فیلمی است ساخته کنیث لونرگان که در قالبی آرام و بیزرق و برق، یکی از عمیقترین کاوشها در زمینه سوگواری، گناه، و بار سنگین گذشته را ارائه میدهد. این اثر نه فقط روایت زندگی مردی است که باید با درد ویرانگر گذشتهاش روبرو شود، بلکه تصویری دقیق و انسانی از چگونگی مواجهه انسان با فقدان، تنهایی، و تلاش برای آشتی با خویشتن است.
در مرکز داستان، لی چاندلر قرار دارد؛ مردی که پس از مرگ ناگهانی برادرش، مجبور میشود به شهر کوچک محل زندگی سابقش بازگردد و سرپرستی پسر نوجوان برادرش را بر عهده بگیرد. این بازگشت، دروازهایست به مواجهه با خاطرات تلخ و فجایعی که زندگی او را برای همیشه تغییر دادهاند. فیلم، با ظرافتی کمنظیر، مراحل مختلف سوگواری را به تصویر میکشد؛ از انکار و خشم گرفته تا پذیرش و سازگاری، اما بدون هیچگونه اغراق یا شعارزدگی.
کنیث لونرگان در کارگردانی خود، با استفاده از فضای ساده و نورپردازی طبیعی، حس واقعی و ملموس بودن داستان را حفظ کرده است. سکوتهای معنادار، نگاههای پر از حسرت و گفتوگوهای کوتاه اما پرمغز، به روایتگری عمیقتر و تاثیرگذارتر کمک کردهاند. موسیقی متن فیلم نیز به شکلی هوشمندانه از فضاسازی احساسی پشتیبانی میکند، بدون آنکه به زور احساسات را تحمیل کند.
در منچستر کنار دریا، بازی کیسی افلک در نقش لی چاندلر، نمونهای بینظیر از بیان رنج و درونیات انسانی است. او توانسته است در سکوت و نگاههای کمحرف، هزاران حرف ناگفته را منتقل کند و پیچیدگیهای درونی شخصیتی را که با گذشتهاش دست و پنجه نرم میکند به تصویر بکشد. سایر بازیگران نیز به خوبی از پس نقشهایشان برآمدهاند و مجموعه بازیها، فیلم را به اثری یکپارچه و باورپذیر تبدیل کردهاند.
این فیلم بیشتر از آنکه قصهای درباره تراژدی باشد، یک مطالعه عمیق درباره تحمل و امید است؛ درباره اینکه چگونه انسان، با تمام شکستها و دردهایش، میتواند به زندگی ادامه دهد و معنا پیدا کند. منچستر کنار دریا با روایتی کمکلام اما پر از احساس و ظرافت، تماشاگر را به تفکری عمیق درباره زندگی، گناه، و بخشش دعوت میکند و در عین حال تصویری زنده از پیچیدگیهای روان و روابط انسانی ارائه میدهد.
این اثر، نه تنها در جشنوارهها و جوایز معتبر سینمایی چون اسکار مورد تحسین قرار گرفت، بلکه به عنوان یکی از بهترین فیلمهای دهه اخیر شناخته میشود که به شکلی بیرحمانه صادقانه و انسانی به مسائل دردناک زندگی مینگرد و در نهایت امید را در دل مخاطب زنده میکند.
در مرکز داستان، لی چاندلر قرار دارد؛ مردی که پس از مرگ ناگهانی برادرش، مجبور میشود به شهر کوچک محل زندگی سابقش بازگردد و سرپرستی پسر نوجوان برادرش را بر عهده بگیرد. این بازگشت، دروازهایست به مواجهه با خاطرات تلخ و فجایعی که زندگی او را برای همیشه تغییر دادهاند. فیلم، با ظرافتی کمنظیر، مراحل مختلف سوگواری را به تصویر میکشد؛ از انکار و خشم گرفته تا پذیرش و سازگاری، اما بدون هیچگونه اغراق یا شعارزدگی.
کنیث لونرگان در کارگردانی خود، با استفاده از فضای ساده و نورپردازی طبیعی، حس واقعی و ملموس بودن داستان را حفظ کرده است. سکوتهای معنادار، نگاههای پر از حسرت و گفتوگوهای کوتاه اما پرمغز، به روایتگری عمیقتر و تاثیرگذارتر کمک کردهاند. موسیقی متن فیلم نیز به شکلی هوشمندانه از فضاسازی احساسی پشتیبانی میکند، بدون آنکه به زور احساسات را تحمیل کند.
در منچستر کنار دریا، بازی کیسی افلک در نقش لی چاندلر، نمونهای بینظیر از بیان رنج و درونیات انسانی است. او توانسته است در سکوت و نگاههای کمحرف، هزاران حرف ناگفته را منتقل کند و پیچیدگیهای درونی شخصیتی را که با گذشتهاش دست و پنجه نرم میکند به تصویر بکشد. سایر بازیگران نیز به خوبی از پس نقشهایشان برآمدهاند و مجموعه بازیها، فیلم را به اثری یکپارچه و باورپذیر تبدیل کردهاند.
این فیلم بیشتر از آنکه قصهای درباره تراژدی باشد، یک مطالعه عمیق درباره تحمل و امید است؛ درباره اینکه چگونه انسان، با تمام شکستها و دردهایش، میتواند به زندگی ادامه دهد و معنا پیدا کند. منچستر کنار دریا با روایتی کمکلام اما پر از احساس و ظرافت، تماشاگر را به تفکری عمیق درباره زندگی، گناه، و بخشش دعوت میکند و در عین حال تصویری زنده از پیچیدگیهای روان و روابط انسانی ارائه میدهد.
این اثر، نه تنها در جشنوارهها و جوایز معتبر سینمایی چون اسکار مورد تحسین قرار گرفت، بلکه به عنوان یکی از بهترین فیلمهای دهه اخیر شناخته میشود که به شکلی بیرحمانه صادقانه و انسانی به مسائل دردناک زندگی مینگرد و در نهایت امید را در دل مخاطب زنده میکند.
March 14, 2017
Beautifully structured, but I have mixed feelings about dialogue. It's very distinct and colloquial and seems real for people living in that area, but just because the writer made characters talk over each other, doesn't make it more real. In fact, I understood the film more now that I've read what every character actually says than when I watched the movie. Some of it was yapping yapping yapping.
I did love the sense of "everything is so damn hard in life" that many of the scenes had. Some clear, well-developed obstacles that added to the tone of the film.
I did love the sense of "everything is so damn hard in life" that many of the scenes had. Some clear, well-developed obstacles that added to the tone of the film.
January 8, 2018
I want to add an alternate ending. He slips off the back of the boat and drowns himself. Depressing, but that goes with the "permanence of failure” which is a real, legitimate theme. It’s only in Disney fantasies that any wrong can be righted. He was a good man in a tough situation. He closed all the books: made sure the kid was taken care of, got the boat fixed, but “just can’t beat it (the demons).” Surely the nightmare of daughters burning confirms that, and the scene in the basement with the furnace foreshadows a possible suicide at sea. Perhaps they held back because it was too sad.
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April 28, 2021
This is a great screenplay and the dialogue feels so real. It doesn’t feel like you’re reading a movie. The characters act like real human beings. The only reason I don’t have it as a perfect score is because seeing the movie you see how much the performances impact the dialogue even more. They bring such emotion to it. This is a devastating story and shows you don’t know what’s going on in someone’s life. A great work.
February 22, 2022
Reading screenplays might be more my speed. Does this count as reading a book? Anyway this is one of the saddest pieces of media I've ever seen/read and always make me tear up when I watch it. The screenplay was no different several times I teared up just reading it. Really well told and painfully realistic story.
December 4, 2022
What a wonderful portrait of vastly human characters. It's funny, depressing, very much alive. I could hear sounds and sniff smells, and taste the air these characters heard, sniffed or tasted. Every page is a rasping claw in the snow. Such great dialogue. The patois of Boston. The pathos of a grieving man. Slice of life, if life was a raspberry.
June 6, 2023
اختلق الكاتب شخصية الشابّ " لي " الذي جسدّ الحزن الفضيع لما بعد كارثة يظن انه سببها ، حتى وإن تمت مسامحته ، لا زال لا يستطيع تقبل نفسه ، لا زال لا يستطيع ان ينظر بالمرآة لوجهه ، الحياة بالنسبة له تحوّلت للونين ، اسود وابيض ، ينتظر نهاية هذا الجحيم أيّ " الحياة " فقط من اجل من يُحب .. حوارات خيالية، عشت الشعور والسوداوية وكأنني داخل القصّة .
February 22, 2017
The script is well structured, straight forward and comes out wonderfully on the screen. But the style is in Lonergan's directing, not his writing. The MBTS script is a true blueprint for something larger.
May 19, 2020
Unbelievably beautiful.
March 9, 2022
Brilliant movie. Brilliant screen play. The characters were alive on the page. Was a very interesting screen play to read
August 22, 2022
I cried four times! I thought this screenplay was about a completely different subject. Can't wait to watch the film!
October 16, 2023
Masterpiece.
January 20, 2024
Sad story about loss and coping.
January 27, 2024
The most powerful tale of grief I've ever read/seen 🙈
"I can't beat it" 💔
"I can't beat it" 💔
October 15, 2024
fantastic film and fantastic script to read
March 19, 2026
I LOVEDDDDD IT and I stayed up watching the film after I finished it , I watched the movie with my mommy , we both started crying , sad book sad movie sad memories and sad everything
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