{"id":86091,"date":"2020-10-10T04:16:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/finding-love-in-dangerous-times\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T04:16:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T01:16:07","slug":"finding-love-in-dangerous-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/finding-love-in-dangerous-times\/","title":{"rendered":"#Finding Love in Dangerous Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Finding Love in Dangerous Times<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7-->Something unexplainable is h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening at Covington High School: the graduating class is exploding. Not with anxiety or hormones, but the literal kind of exploding, where they blow up like a balloon and pop blood-red carnage all over the classmates unlucky enough to be in the blast radius. The seniors are worried less about starting the next chapter of their lives, and more about surviving the one they are currently in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Duffield<\/strong>\u2019s <em><strong>Spontaneous<\/strong> <\/em>gives us a taste of what one of those explosions looks like at the very top of the film. As Maya (<strong>Katherine Langford<\/strong>) tries to keep her eyes open during homeroom, Katelyn (<strong>Mellany Barros<\/strong>), the girl sitting in front of her, suddenly combusts. No screams, no warning signs, just a teenager with her whole life ahead of her is here one minute and, in the blink of an eye, gone in the next. Her life snuffed out by a senseless act of random violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the students stare wide-eyed at the spot that Katelyn once occupied, their shock transforms into screams that drive them out of the classroom and into the parking lot. We see huddles of teens checking-in with each other, calling their parents, and making sure their bestie isn\u2019t the one who died. It\u2019s a scene that should feel familiar because it\u2019s the same one we saw in the parking lots of Columbine or Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te aftermath of their tragic school shootings. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, this is what <em>Spontaneous<\/em> is about: teens trying to process and move forward after being hapless bystanders to a violent tragedy. What Duffield smartly does is distance us from the realities and politics of mass shootings and centers his film on something so outrageous that we can\u2019t help but find it fun, even though it\u2019s alluding to a gravely serious subject. In 2020, it may feel too soon to center a high school teen romance on the shared trauma of a school shooting, but Duffield engages with all of the themes we would expect to explore with such a story, just through the gonzo conceit of teens that explode like watermelons at a Gallagher show. That the film can strike such a delicate balance between being both a romantic horror-comedy for the YA crowd and a brutally honest look at the trauma so many teenagers know all too well in contemporary high school \u2013 without losing a shred of its humor and heart \u2013 is a testament to just how truly unique this film is.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spontaneous<\/em>\u2019s warmth comes out of its love story between the wryly witty Maya, who would rather take shrooms than think about the girl who blew up in front of her, and Dylan (<strong>Charlie Plummer<\/strong>), who uses this reminder of his own mortality to gather his courage and ask out Maya, whom he\u2019s been crushing on since moving to their small town. The chemistry between the duo is cutesy but relatable and surely will make the target teenage audience\u2019s heart yearn for their own unrequited high school romances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A large part of this relatability comes from Duffield\u2019s script, which is based on <strong>Aaron Starmer<\/strong>\u2019s YA novel of the same name. Best known for the Satanic Panic horror-comedy <em>The Babysitter<\/em> as well as the deep-sea monster mash <em>Underwater<\/em>, Duffield has clearly taken inspiration from John Hughes\u2019 and Diablo Cody\u2019s version of teenage banter, but rather than using stylized dialogue to make his characters feel wise beyond their years, he injects it with honest realism so you can actually picture these words coming out of a teenager\u2019s mouth. <\/p>\n<p>Both Langford and Plummer may have a Manic Pixie Dream Character quality to them, but it doesn\u2019t feel forced or gimmicky. We may feel ourselves cringe as we watch the two lovebirds share lightning-fast quips back and forth, trying to one-up each other with movie quotes and their own self-confident charm, but it\u2019s only because Duffield\u2019s dialogue reminds us of all the things we did in high school that we thought terribly clever. Maya and Dylan have all the joy that comes with the reckless abandon of young love, only magnified ten-fold as their romance blossoms amidst a cloud of chaos and death.<\/p>\n<p>The central relationship is the heart of the film, but <em>Spontaneous<\/em> is at its best when drawing astute allusions between Duffield\u2019s mysterious explosions and real-world tragedies. Having been produced in the immediate years following the Parkland shooting, it\u2019s clear the intent of the film is to be a commentary on the trauma and anxiety survivors of mass school shootings must face. It\u2019s tragic to watch Maya, Dylan, and the rest of their class have to grow up so fast. They should be concerned about what they\u2019ll wear to prom, and what colleges they want to get into, but as more bodies are eviscerated in front of their eyes, the teens grow increasingly more hopeless that they\u2019ll be alive long enough to even go to college. \u201cWe\u2019re never going to be old,\u201d Maya tells her best friend Tess (<strong>Hayley Law<\/strong>). \u201cBut we\u2019re already really, <em>really<\/em> old.\u201d she replies. <\/p>\n<p>Arguably, the way the United States has processed the never-ending stream of stories about school shootings is mirrored in the way Maya, Dylan, and Tess cope with the explosions. At first, we are shocked and horrified, trying to make sense of the senseless, but after more and more teenagers are shot in schools \u2013 or in Covington High\u2019s case, inexplicably blown up \u2013 we, unfortunately, find ourselves growing numb to the tragedies, especially once it becomes clear nothing is being done to stop them from occurring. <\/p>\n<p>Midway through the film, <em>Spontaneous<\/em> takes a turn into more timely territory that can only be described as unintentional. Doctors and the federal government believe that the Covington High teenagers are exploding because of some virus, or a disease, so they unceremoniously scoop all the teens up and place them in quarantine. They are cut off from their families, monitored around the clock, and given cocktails of experimental drugs all in hopes of finding a cure. The correlations between this and the COVID-19 pandemic couldn\u2019t be plainer, but as the YA novel was written in 2016, and the film shot in 2018, the creators couldn\u2019t have predicted that we\u2019d have such a nuanced understanding of what these characters are going through. Before the pandemic, we could have empathized with Maya, Dylan, and the rest of their classmates\u2019 anxiety over being forced into quarantine, but we have a whole different level of perception now that we\u2019ve been in similar situations for so long ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the depressing place <em>Spontaneous<\/em> goes, Duffield leaves us with a message that we should all remember as we remain stuck in a dangerous time. We can\u2019t allow ourselves to get lost in a sea of hopelessness, believing that nothing will ever get better now that everything\u2019s changed. Things may never go back to the way that they were before, but our lives will move on, and we\u2019ll likely come out of it stronger than we were before. We just need to take this moment as a reminder to live each day to the absolute fullest. Hug your family, laugh with our friends, and remember to cherish every day you have. You never know when it might be your last.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spontaneous is available now on VOD. <\/em>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/spontaneous-movie-review\/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=spontaneous-movie-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Finding Love in Dangerous Times&#8221; Something unexplainable is happening at Covington High School: the graduating class is exploding. 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