But there is another sort of childish adult in the film, represented by Owen, the master of ceremonies at the Water Whizz water-slide park. "The Way, Way Back" plays like a rough draft of a potentially richer, deeper film, and parts of it feel compromised. He has the posture of a boiled shrimp. Parents Guide, , Shahob, Bellingham, WA, US. The setting is also interesting: the extended get-away at an East-Coast beach house strip, with the kids dragged along, but left to amuse themselves as the adults drink, joke, gossip, flirt, and drink some more. But no, the teens job is to appear to be having fun, doing beach vacation activities, or even partying themselves, so long as they stay out of the way. So the message there seems pretty clear, right? “The Way, Way Back” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). But it also describes a hazy, bittersweet mood of recollection that hovers around the action like July humidity. With everyone present, the drunken neighbor lady comments on your appearance, and jokes about her husbands bedroom practices in front of you. 4) Should not have broke the rule: the adults smoking pot, flirting with others partners, etc. This movie tells their story and that of four others who escaped with them and a teenage girl, Irena Zielinska (Saoirse Ronan), who joins them in flight. Print Word PDF. It is of course showing us that the divorce-prone and otherwise undefined relationship-world of contemporary adult society brings with it a whole lot of misery. Does he let Duncan and his seventh-grade tag-along into an adult dancing and drinking party? That's what makes "The Way, Way Back" feel somewhat special, even though you've seen its component parts before, and the parts don't always fit together naturally. | When Duncan wanders into the Water Wizz, the local water park, he meets adult employees who are just having fun. Mr. He's fourteen. His wife is tortured and Janusz is sentenced to spend twenty years imprisoned in a Siberian gulag. Your moms boyfriends bald friend comes over, starts pantomiming air-guitar on his beer can to the loud music, while his younger female friend (relationship undefined) starts dancing around wildly and trying to drag you into it, half-flirtatiously and half-mockingly. Which for Duncan means standing up to his would-be step-father, having a conversation with the girl next door and being more comfortable with who he is. . But The Way, Way Back gives him what may be the character best-suited to his talents. Taken aback that someone would take Duncan's side over his, Trent could only back away in disbelief. Part of the charm of beach towns is that they change relatively slowly, so it is easy enough, as I suspect the filmmakers have done, to peel back the years and find your own experiences in Duncan’s. He never prods Duncan about what is troubling him, and he never pretends that his friendship with Duncan would make it appropriate for him discuss his own troubles with him. | Not unless theres someone there to make a spirited game of it. And I wish the movie hadn't packed Duncan's transformation into one montage. But more important are roles; these are more defined by the love and the neediness that bring them into being and sustain their function, than by the rules society gives us for ordering them. He gets his first real job at a water park run by a talkative, funny, lovable flake named Owen (Sam Rockwell). Unlike most of the other films I’ve written about here, say, MUD, TRUE GRIT, or ALMOST FAMOUS , I don’t think this is a film with many hinted-at depths and messages, but there are a couple themes worth discussing. Showing all 5 items Jump to: Summaries (4) Synopsis (1) Summaries. Owen, who manages the park, is the more sympathetic of the two surrogate fathers who dominate Duncan’s days and fight, implicitly, for his young soul.
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