Film Review – The Perks of Being a Wallflower

It’s a rare event to find an author not only writing the screenplay
adaptation of his own work, but directing it as well. It’s a heavy
workload for Stephen Chbosky, who attempts to make the nuances of his
book, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” compute on the big screen.
Although gifted a trio of inspired performances from the lead actors,
“Wallflower” is a muddled creation blessed with unique emotional
sincerity, yet cursed with loose ends and poorly defined characters,
huddled into a precious creation that might test the patience of those
with a sensitivity to effusive teen melodrama. There’s enormous insight
into the adolescent mind, yet Chbosky is hopelessly disorganized,
creating a film of sporadic significance. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com