Rocket Science

Rocket Science
I went to see this film March 13th , once again accompanied by my boyfriend. At first it thought this film was going to be similar to the film What the Bleep Do We Know or Spellbound. I thought those other movies were okay, but I am not really good at understanding astrophysics or at spelling (see writing samples). Thus, I was really relieved that this move’s plot was about a foiled love story, and a boy learning how to live with a speech impediment.
I though that this film was really ingeniously funny. This is not to say that stuttering is funny and something to be laughed about; disabilities are serious and should be treated respectfully. What were funny were the situations that the boy, Hal, got himself into and how he responded to those situations. For example, after he through a cello in the window of the house of the girl he liked, he told the family that “now there was a cello in your house”. In my opinion I though that this statement was very poetic and funny. What else is there to say after you through a cello through someone’s house window? I felt this way about most of the lines that Hal said. I thought the raw matter of affect way he spoke was very genuine, and it felt even more so with his stutter.
Untimely, I think that what Hal learned form his debate experience as well as his dabbles in matters of the heart can best be summed up by the pizza analogy that persists through the film. Hal consciously tried to order pizza in the cafeteria and he continuously failed at the ability to make his desire for the pizza verbally know. However, in the end he did overcome this verbal obstacle at a pizza diner. This idea of continuously struggling to overcome obstacles was however than contradicted by his father. His father in sort gave Hal the bad advice that one in the end just learns to settle and be continent in matters of the heart and life. I would like to think, that Hal’s experiences helped him transcend this idea of settling and continued to fight the good fight of achieving his dreams and meeting his potential.