Silver Linings Playbook

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
Director: David Owen Russell
Rating: ●●●○○

Silver lining (from Wikipedia) is a metaphor for optimism in the common English-language idiom.
So, Silver Linings Playbook promises to be a feelgood romantic Hollywood style movie. And it delivers what it says on the box.
The plot is typical and somehow predictable: a man, over 35, has to restart his life and by the end of the movie falls in love with final happy ending.


However, the movie has got elements that makes it peculiar and original.
The acting to start with. While De Niro we know all so well, Bradley Cooper is credible in playing the main character affected by bipolar syndrome, going intelligently beyond the handsome-bloke-type of role.
Worth mentioning here also Jennifer Lawrence that after Winter's Bones and Hunger Games, shows what an eclectic actress she is.
We mentioned the bipolar syndrome affecting the main character and its insane obsession for its past, that gives depth to this movie and enriches it.
Though this theme is central to the movie, the film is light and funny, because everyone is a bit insane in the end, including the people watching this movie, we realise.
An enjoyable two hours of optimism.