{"id":6812,"date":"2010-02-23T00:06:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2010-02-23T06:57:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T14:57:28","slug":"flying-lessons-derek-magyar-2010-usa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6812","title":{"rendered":"Flying Lessons (Derek Magyar, 2010): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Lea Encarnacion<\/a>. Viewed at the Arlington Theatre at Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2010.<\/p>\n

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Flying Lessons<\/a> by Derek Magyar<\/a> is a film about a young woman, played by Maggie Grace, who comes back home from Los Angeles to reunite with her mother and childhood friends. In the opening shot, we see a girl in a nightclub in LA stumble out into the sunshine away from the never ending party scene.\u00a0 She goes back home to her mother’s house – these scenes are intercut with scenes from a retired police officer in that same town.<\/p>\n

The two stories and worlds join together in the middle of the film when the girl takes care of the police officer who has Alzheimer’s disease.\u00a0 Along the way of the story, she gets back in touch with her old friends and former boyfriend.\u00a0 The love story between her and her former boyfriend is a very cliche and cold\/unemotional part of the film.\u00a0 The shot at the end of the film was nice, when the girl looks back out in the open indicating the possibilities for her future.\u00a0 The title “Flying Lessons” is a metaphor for living life.\u00a0 Before the end credits roll, Hal Holbrook’s deep soulful voice reiterates, “How is a man supposed to fly? When he’s got anger on his side… How will he live for tomorrow?”<\/p>\n

I thought it was going to be a good film because of all the excitement and people attending as well as the first few minutes of the film.\u00a0 There were a few good parts but it had a very slow pace that felt draining and dragging the audience on.\u00a0 I felt like I was always waiting for something to happen, but it never came.\u00a0 It also felt longer than it really was and was a a sad and depressing dramatic movie.\u00a0 Hal Holbrook was the only good actor but his talent was not enough to save this unsatisfying film.\u00a0 It could have been a lot better.\u00a0 All in all, I would not recommend Flying Lessons to others to see.\u00a0 It unsuccessfully pushes the point of the story to the audience, although the audience does not feel it in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Lea Encarnacion. Viewed at the Arlington Theatre at Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2010. Flying Lessons by Derek Magyar is a film about a young woman, played by Maggie Grace, who comes back home from Los Angeles to reunite with her mother and childhood friends. In the opening shot, we see a girl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}