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28 Apr 2010

How To Be

Robert Pattinson was in on the joke. Are you?

Director: Oliver Irving

Language: English

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Hardy, Powell Jones, Mike Pearce, Johnny White

Screenplay: Oliver Irving

Release Date: 29 April 2010

Screening: Shaw Cinemas

Rating: PG

Awards: Best Actor (Robert Pattinson), Strasbourg International Film Festival 2008; Best Feature, Washington DC Independent Film Festival 2009

Watching the Twilight saga on film can be a trying experience at times. Robert Pattinson plays a heart-achingly beautiful vampire who seems so convinced of his evil nature as he continuously run away from the franchise’s innocent human protagonist. Except that since he’s a vegetarian vampire who hasn’t ever tasted real blood or commit a single evil thing since his conception, we just don’t know why he’s acting all guilty, depressed, and mopey. Truth be told, we’d even say Edward Cullen is a little too self-absorbed and too fascinated by his non-existent existential crisis to make himself of interest to even a hormonal teen.

How on earth could you possibly follow up your acting career from a role like that? It turns out first-time arthouse director Oliver Irving has a good idea: why not cast Robert Pattinson in a comedy – as a real world version of Edward Cullen, the perpetually mopey and self absorbed almost-adult who is so assured of existence of his existential crisis, and that he must have therapy?

There is subtle comedy in seeing maladjusted people go about their lives: Ben Stiller in Greenberg lurches from one awkward situation to another, while Lei Yuenbing’s ensemble cast in White Days speaks past and above each other in their bonding rituals, ironically and comically building walls of isolation that left everyone alienated. Here, Pattinson’s protagonist has both the ability to turn every social situation into comedy gold while alienating his group of misfit friends, all while torturing the audience with showcases of his musical skills.

The whole set-up gets even better when a real therapist is called in to help him with his problems – and Powell Jones’s mild-mannered self-help guru makes an excellent partner to Pattinson’s comic mayhem.

This is a movie that couldn’t work if Pattinson wasn’t in on the joke. Not only is Irving fully aware and willing to take potshots at the indie genre’s fascination with depressed youth, Pattinson’s deadpan delivery plays up this sense of the ridiculous by making his self-absorbed, self-thwarting dialogue sardonically funny.

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1. 2010-04-29 09:03  
This movie's a total waste of time. R.Pattinson's acting is far beyond acting. Story's meant to pan the angst ridden youth but fails to bring that humor it intends to carry throughout the film...watching the film makes you wonder and wander there the story is leading to.
Pattinson's Dali in "Little Ashes" is worth more the time

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