Josh, a part time writing professor, must juggle his life between a disgruntled student, his very strange girlfriend, his estranged relationship with his father, his dying grandmother, his do nothing brother, and his odd mother.This story jumps from one scene to another and even though Josh is the connecting character throughout, nothing seems to jell into one story.
1) There are two titles: Safe Spaces & After Class. 2) Justin Long plays the usual Jason Bateman type pathetic guy who can't whole heartedly stand up behind anything despite clearly knowing what's right and wrong.
The non-stop blah, blah, and blah of all the characters in this movie is just like what we used to see and hear in every Woody Allen's movie. The leading role as a entry-level apprentice-like young professor in some New York college got everything mixed up, teaching career, his job security, his popularity in the class, his relationship to all of his family members and his temporary lover, his this and his that, everything related to him seems suddenly turn into a situation so embarrassed, so difficult and so hard to deal with at the same time.
I was engaged from the opening scene and remained so throughout. Dan Schechter and his amazing cast create a very real feeling drama that demonstrates without judgement how well-intentioned teachers, parents, children and siblings make mistakes and move forward regardless.
This movie is a good piece of art, I mean it points to all the hard stuffs in life and show them in a raw unedited way so you can really feel the burn from the events that are depicted here. The injustice, the family drama, the safe space mob hit everything is so real and close to the heart that its almost very annoying and hard to watch and enjoy.
I was a little worried by the low score of this movie and the one positive review, but I always like Justin Long and the trailer looked good.
Some of my favorite films are the ones that don't have much ostensible plot movement at first glance. I like films where characters just meander aimlessly as they work through certain social issues, or reevaluate their place in their own lives, and really, that's what this film is all about.
