Review: Silver Linings Playbook
may be more like him than he is willing to acknowledge.
Even Kher as Dr Patel, Pat's therapist, fits in seamlessly into the story without much ado about his Asian-ness.
It's the film's upbeat insistence on a "silver lining", achieved through a "positive outlook", that seems somewhat of a stretch in the second half. Unlike the characters driving the story in the beginning, it is the story that appears to be edging them along now -- with the transition from one to the other rather too obvious for a film of otherwise such subtle nature. A bet is thrown in, involving both a crucial game and a dance show that Tiffany wants to win with Pat -- with all of it rounded up into a perfect ending.
"Life is hard enough," Pat says in the beginning, fuming at Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. "Why can't there be happy endings?"
For one, because edges such as in Silver Linings Playbook don't make such perfect rounds -- and why should they?
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