The Edge Of Seventeen (Review)

I wanted this to be a normal review, but after choosing the film I already knew that it would be much more complex. The fact is that, The Edge Of Seventeen, it is not the classic adolescienti... This film is the visual representation of adolescience. Let's start at the beginning: Adolescience, just as the film wants us to understand, is a very complex period. In fact, the director analyzes the experience of Nadine, a 17-year-old girl with major social problems and a bad relationship with her family. Her only friend Krista, falls in love with her brother and this, complicates the relationship between the two. Her professor, Mr. Burner, is the only one in whom she finds a valid point of reference. He in fact tries, with a bit of mischief, to help the young girl get through the bad period. The fact is, this period although difficult, indeed insurmountable according to her (since she was also planning suicide) is then not entirely useless. I am reminded of a book by Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You, in which precisely as the title says, often the pain we experience for a period, may serve us in the future. Whether it is to understand how we are inside or how to react to a series of bad events, we often need to go through bad times. Indeed, in Nadine's case, after a thousand vicissitudes with other kids and fights with her family, the young woman manages to reconcile with everyone, and the film ends in the best possible way:

Nadine, smiles

Vote: 95/100