Zak (Zack Gottsagen), a wrestling-obsessed man with Down syndrome and the film’s protagonist, is only 22 years old. But its greatest strength is not in shining light into what we often collectively perceive as “darkness.” Rather, the film encourages us to bring our own darknesses into the light and examine them through a new prism: friends who become family through shared struggle and pain. If you live around the central Wisconsin area it'll be playing at the Stevens Point theater and I believe still at the Cedar Creek cinema in Wausau (that's where I saw it).The carefully crafted narrative touches on familiar tropes about friendship, disability, trauma, and the twin freedoms and dangers of rural living. I really hope it's in consideration for awards this upcoming season. I'd definitely recommend seeing The Peanut Butter Falcon. The technical stuff set the tone right for me. Technically this is a beautifully shot film with amazing shots from above of the scenery, especially along the beaches and water. I would've liked just a little more since it ended abruptly. A big event happened and about two minutes later it ended. There was one exception with the climax of the film. It was needed and knew when to keep on a scene longer or when to switch. Great films should affect you in some sort of way, typically it happens through emotion. I realized this film was special when the woman sitting next to me started crying at a feel-good moment that was a little emotional. This film is very good at provides good insight and a beautiful way. One of my favorite scenes was with her and Shia and he's explaining to her that she's treating him differently since Zak has Down's Syndrome and she should just treat him like any normal person and not like he's a child. I want too invested in her character but she provided some good topics to talk about. She did very well and probably one of her best performances as well. Dakota Johnson plays a worker from the assisted living home who is trying to find Zak. I'm was just so happy when they were together and the serious scenes too. You can tell a film is good performance wise when you forget who is playing who. Their bond was so strong where I stopped seeing Shia and Zack and saw their characters. Yet he continues on with life an eventually meets Zak. He knows the bad things he has done and doesn't know which is heartbreaking almost. One of the questions asked in the film is who's the bad guy and who's the good guy. I understood where he was coming from and how he perceives himself. Shia LeBeof has finally had a great performance and I personally think the best of his career. He provides most of the comedy and there's no way to hate him. He has so much to work with to embody his character. Zack Gottsagen as Zak is definitely the standout here. The plot, though it can be pretty unrealistic at times, makes for a fun adventure. We haven't had a film like this in a while that has a great message and is made to make us happy. Also the almost perfect critic and audience score told me something as well. I was very surprised to see how many people went to see this film at 10 in the morning. I tried not to have the plot revealed too much to me which I think benefits sometimes. I had heard only good things about this film since it aired at various film festivals. Along the way he meets Tyler, a man on the run after committing a crime, and the two make an unbreakable bond as they spend days together learning about each other. The Peanut Butter Falcon Review: The Peanut Butter Falcon follows Zak, a Down's syndrome patient living in an assisted living home, as he runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true.
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