Diary entries forCha Cha Real Smooth
Cha Cha Real Smooth
I think I just found my favourite comfort movie.
Cha Cha Real Smooth
surpreendentemente virou um dos meus favoritos e vou lembrar com muita saudade da primeira vez que assisti tanto pela história quanto pela ocasião (chuvinha)
Cha Cha Real Smooth
this movie was so beautiful and perfect i am crying. like the hardest thing about being in your early 20s is learning to grow up and let go and to be happy with that because we will always have our memories to cherish and life goes on and that's the way it is. all the characters were so likeable and endearing i would move mountains for my boys david and rodrigo.
Cha Cha Real Smooth
In case you couldn't tell by my last logging, it turns out I wasn't done with Sundance 2022 after all! Award winners went on individual sale yesterday evening and I pounced like a preying hawk once I saw my two big needs available: a Dakota Johnson film (though I wish both of hers this festival were on the list, I'm no longer as bummed because I thought I'd miss out on both of them) and a horror film I started today with Nanny, one of the few horror features on the listings I hadn't immediately been interested in/got tickets for. Couldn't tell you why. I felt pretty quickly in that this was a mistake I'd regretted, as it was a solid debut that is ripe for a rewatch, feeling like something you'll love once you see it more than once. Happy to see it get significant awards recognition I knew the instant I saw tickets available though how my Sundance experience would finally, for real, have to end. I learned from Piggy, I wanted to close with something I selfishly knew I wouldn't "might like", but something I would definitely love. A Dakota Johnson film with score by my favorite Haim sister and a song on the soundtrack by Alex G. All the boxes were checked before I even clicked Play. And Cha Cha Real Smooth delivered and then some, ensuring its place in my favs of the year list no matter how much the next 11 months provide I feel like the big themes, at least from what I saw, of this festival were (perhaps inevitably) based around two things COVID has caused us to think/overthink since hitting our lives: 1) we have reason to panic, we should trust our gut when it tells us something's off, and we shouldn't take for granted that the worst must be over just because a storm may have lessened at the moment; and conversely 2) we are less alone than we may think. Even if situations occur that force us to be so physically or emotionally they're still situations occurring similarly enough to each of us. And it shouldn't be taken a) personally as a fault of your own self that you didn't get to do what you wanted to as early as you wanted to, or b) as a sign that you'll never get to do that at all, or that you won't get a chance to be your best or happiest self even if you don't get that particular goal accomplished. Star and director Cooper Raiff's Cha Cha Real Smooth embodies the second theme with more passion, heart and comfort than any non-Worst Person in the World film I've seen in a long time, and it's a testament to how great modern cinema is right now that we're lucky enough to have both available to us, at least in a brief festival, at the same time "It feels like you don't remember what better feels like...and the things that I'm really scared of doing are probably the things that will really help me the most. But I just can't do them" When you ask if someone who's had a rough time is alright when they say they're gonna "take a shower" because you know they're going to run the water so nobody hears them scream and cry. When you know because you're all too familiar with this approach, having done it before This life is hard enough struggling through things alone. Don't let someone you care about have that burden of thinking they are alone in it when they're not (or when you don't want them to be) Beyond happy to have ended my Sundance 2022, and my first (and hopefully not last) Sundance, with this one. May not be the last film I see this month, but if it were I'd be glad to have also ended an otherwise-personally-shitty January with this ray of sunshine amidst the clouds. At their best films are capable of making you feel if not hopeful about everything else, at least better about yourself than when you started. Like there's very little they can't do, and like there's very little you can't do. I'd be lying if I said they weren't a big reason I've stayed. Times like this I'm glad I have
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Really cute and relating movie
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Cha Cha Real Smooth you know what's real smooth? Andrew Rizz with his mid-life crisis at 22 y.o and being in love with milf.
Cha Cha Real Smooth
you know, maybe you shouldnt cast yourself as the main lead if you cant act. not that it wouldve saved the movie but maybe i wouldve felt a bit less miserable sitting throughout this whole thing...which i doubt bc the writing is also horrible. unfortunately no saving remedies here
Cha Cha Real Smooth
i love how the first scene literally shows whats gonna happen between andrew and domino
Cha Cha Real Smooth
89/100 It’s rare to like every single character in a film and that’s just it about this film. It portrays every single person so beautifully. There is no antagonist. Everyone’s a protagonist in their own way and that’s what is so refreshing about it. I also really want to appreciate the writing as well. I think it’s something heart touching that Cooper Raiff has created here and I hope he does many more of such.
Cha Cha Real Smooth
"the things that i'm scared of doing are probably the things that will help me the most" i've never felt so seen in my entire life
