Watch "A Good Person," a Decent Story and an Amazing Cast
With incredible acting and a well-thought out story, “A Good Person” made its debut in theaters on March 24.
By Jocelyn Cosgrove
With incredible acting and a well-thought out story, “A Good Person” made its debut in theaters on March 24.
By Jocelyn Cosgrove
Trigger Warning; Discussion of Drug Use, Suicide and Addiction.
Unlikely friendship and devastating grief is woven into a beautiful story that makes the movie, “A Good Person,” which was released in theaters on March 24.
Allison (Florence Pugh) was living her best life with a stable career, many friends, her fiancé Nathan (Chinaza Uche) and a wedding on the horizon. However, after experiencing a horrible car crash that killed Nathan’s sister, Molly (Nichelle Hines) and his brother-in-law, Jesse (Toby Onwumere), Allison spiraled in her grief and became addicted to opioids. A year later, Allison has a hard time letting go of the painkillers, but joins an Narcotics Anonymous group where she finds her ex-fiancé’s father, Daniel (Morgan Freeman), a recovering alcoholic of 10 years, who has been left to raise his granddaughter, Ryan (Celeste O’Connor). Allison and Daniel form a friendship as they work past their grief and towards a better future for the both of them.
“A Good Person” didn’t seem like a movie I would typically watch while scrolling through Netflix or Hulu, but I’m glad I came across it. It was a heartbreaking, but incredible story of friendship, growth and grief. Some of the scenes became chaotic when Allison was high on drugs, which fit her current mental state. The ending seemed extremely fitting, showing Allison’s growth to finally get the help she really needed after coming to terms with the honest truth that if she hadn’t been looking at her phone, there probably would have been enough time to stop the car.
While it had some parts of the writing that worked and made sense, Pugh’s incredible acting carried this movie. As seen in many other movies, with much more publicity than this one, Pugh is an incredible actress who can bring such intense emotion to the screen that blows me away every time. She portrays that same emotion in this film, which made it a whole lot better and ten times more emotionally heart-wrenching. O’Connor also did an amazing job portraying the angry, hurt teenage girl who lost her parents and who has also kind of spiraled into her grief.
The start of the friendship between Daniel and Allison was kind of weird, but as they went to more meetings together, they became closer and shared a little bit of their lives with each other. They’d met before since Allison had been engaged to Daniel’s son, but they got to know each other better as they helped each other with their grief. Another friendship dynamic was Ryan and Allison’s friendship, which started off a little rockier. Ryan, who was still grieving the death of her parents, was a little angrier and more forward with Allison, but as they talked more about the day of the crash, both became more comfortable with each other. Ryan began to see Allison as someone to go to, since Allison understood a bit of Ryan’s anger and sadness.
This movie is very heavy, focusing on opioid addictions, alcoholism, abuse and a brief suicide attempt. They’re heavy and hard aspects of life that people don’t give too much of a thought to unless it's mentioned by someone else, or they see it on social media or on the news. Movies and TV series break that wall sometimes and deep dive into the hard and the heavy and make it known and seen. “A Good Person” did a good job of exploring these things, since it was such a huge part of this movie.
Despite the incredible acting and storytelling, the writing for this film felt choppy and confusing at times. The story itself was good, but there were times when it got really confusing or just out of balance with the rest of the scenes in the movie.
All in all, “A Good Person” was pretty decent. It was one of those movies that once it’s over, even if it ended pretty okay, still leaves you feeling starstruck. It had its flaws with the choppy writing, but the acting and the story really pulled the movie together.
“A Good Person” is currently playing in theaters.
Unlikely friendship and devastating grief is woven into a beautiful story that makes the movie, “A Good Person,” which was released in theaters on March 24.
Allison (Florence Pugh) was living her best life with a stable career, many friends, her fiancé Nathan (Chinaza Uche) and a wedding on the horizon. However, after experiencing a horrible car crash that killed Nathan’s sister, Molly (Nichelle Hines) and his brother-in-law, Jesse (Toby Onwumere), Allison spiraled in her grief and became addicted to opioids. A year later, Allison has a hard time letting go of the painkillers, but joins an Narcotics Anonymous group where she finds her ex-fiancé’s father, Daniel (Morgan Freeman), a recovering alcoholic of 10 years, who has been left to raise his granddaughter, Ryan (Celeste O’Connor). Allison and Daniel form a friendship as they work past their grief and towards a better future for the both of them.
“A Good Person” didn’t seem like a movie I would typically watch while scrolling through Netflix or Hulu, but I’m glad I came across it. It was a heartbreaking, but incredible story of friendship, growth and grief. Some of the scenes became chaotic when Allison was high on drugs, which fit her current mental state. The ending seemed extremely fitting, showing Allison’s growth to finally get the help she really needed after coming to terms with the honest truth that if she hadn’t been looking at her phone, there probably would have been enough time to stop the car.
While it had some parts of the writing that worked and made sense, Pugh’s incredible acting carried this movie. As seen in many other movies, with much more publicity than this one, Pugh is an incredible actress who can bring such intense emotion to the screen that blows me away every time. She portrays that same emotion in this film, which made it a whole lot better and ten times more emotionally heart-wrenching. O’Connor also did an amazing job portraying the angry, hurt teenage girl who lost her parents and who has also kind of spiraled into her grief.
The start of the friendship between Daniel and Allison was kind of weird, but as they went to more meetings together, they became closer and shared a little bit of their lives with each other. They’d met before since Allison had been engaged to Daniel’s son, but they got to know each other better as they helped each other with their grief. Another friendship dynamic was Ryan and Allison’s friendship, which started off a little rockier. Ryan, who was still grieving the death of her parents, was a little angrier and more forward with Allison, but as they talked more about the day of the crash, both became more comfortable with each other. Ryan began to see Allison as someone to go to, since Allison understood a bit of Ryan’s anger and sadness.
This movie is very heavy, focusing on opioid addictions, alcoholism, abuse and a brief suicide attempt. They’re heavy and hard aspects of life that people don’t give too much of a thought to unless it's mentioned by someone else, or they see it on social media or on the news. Movies and TV series break that wall sometimes and deep dive into the hard and the heavy and make it known and seen. “A Good Person” did a good job of exploring these things, since it was such a huge part of this movie.
Despite the incredible acting and storytelling, the writing for this film felt choppy and confusing at times. The story itself was good, but there were times when it got really confusing or just out of balance with the rest of the scenes in the movie.
All in all, “A Good Person” was pretty decent. It was one of those movies that once it’s over, even if it ended pretty okay, still leaves you feeling starstruck. It had its flaws with the choppy writing, but the acting and the story really pulled the movie together.
“A Good Person” is currently playing in theaters.