A Beginner’s Guide to Endings
A Beginner’s Guide to Endings is comedy drama movie released
in 2010. This movie is written and directed by Jonathan Sobol and produced by Nicolas
Tabarrok and John Kozma. The major roles of A Beginner’s Guide to Endings are played by Scott Caan,
J.K. Simmons, Harvey Keitel, Paulo Costanzo, Jason Jones and Tricia Helfer.
A Beginner’s Guide to Endings tells the story of five brothers, who, after their father's death, find out that three of them are going to die very soon. Then they try to make the last few days of their life meaningful.
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Plot:
A Beginner’s Guide to Endings starts with a man telling us about his life and
then he tries to commit suicide but fails. He takes another attempt and meanwhile,
introduces us with his children, five boys. The eldest one is a boxer, who
couldn’t manage a successful career for himself. The second one is a playboy. The
third son is so far the most successful one, smart and organized. We don’t get
to know much about the forth one, but he is trying to be a boxer like his
eldest brother. The last one is an Asian and still a kid. The old man says that
5 of his sons are from 3 of his wives. He regrets for the life he lived and
says he has failed as a father. Because of being frustrated for this, he seeks
to end his life.
Then we see his sons have gathered for his funeral. But as he
has jumped off the Niagara Falls and his body has not been found, so the funeral
is going on without his dead body. At the funeral, his sons start fighting
with each other for silly reasons.
After the funeral,
his sons and the priest visit a local club. The priest was a very good friend
of the old man and also of his sons. The priest reads his will. The man has
left some small things for each of his sons and has also left his house to
them. Then there is another letter which states, when his first 3 sons were
little, in exchange for a huge amount of money, he has used them in a drug
experiment. As a result, soon the 3 of them will die.
The 3 brothers become frustrated. The third son sees a
doctor, who also says that he is going to die soon. When they get sure about
it, they start to correct the mistakes they have done all their life.
The eldest one, the boxer, goes to the nearby gym, where he
has set a fight for the fourth brother. Seeing the opponent in practice, he realizes
that his brother is no fit for his opponent. Feeling the danger for his brother
of getting killed, he tries to avoid the fight but the fixer demands $20,000
for cancelling the game. He then starts to seek the money.
The second brother, the playboy, feels that he needs to
settle down with someone. Opposing everyone else’s opinion, he heads for his
high school crush, who seems as a pretty dangerous lady to marry. He spends some
times with that lady and at one point, she puts him face to face with her
boyfriend, who had cases against him for assaulting people. The outlaw
boyfriend tries to kill him, but also says, he will get the girl if the brother
can defeat him.
The third brother, the smart one, living a controlled life
till now, starts to seek for adventure. Putting on a costume of Elvis Presley,
he quits his job, talks with the girl which he always has hesitated and slaps
his manager. He maintains a list of things to do before he dies. The last thing
of his list is to get inside a barrel and then jump off the Niagara Falls, which he
attempts.
Meanwhile, the eldest brother, failing to get the $20000,
decides to fight the boxing match himself instead to his young brother, to save
his brother’s life. But from the priest, he learns why he can’t fight and why
the same fate has happened to him in every match he has fought. He also learns
that, even after living a reckless life, how much their father loved them.
The last part of the movie is about the three brothers’
dangerous attempts and about the last days of their life, or is it?
My review about A Beginner’s Guide to Endings:
First of all, I didn’t like A Beginner’s Guide to Endings much.
The plot of A Beginner’s Guide to Endings is not bad, but its predictable. If you have
watched enough movies, you will know what will happen at the end, in one way or
another. The ending felt too dramatic for me. And also, A Beginner’s Guide to Endings had the
probation to include much more comedy and suspense elements in this movie, but the
director didn’t do it. It could make this movie much better.
The acting and the dialogues are goods. The casting also
felt good. But, the character development of A Beginner’s Guide to Endings is very bad. Usually I don’t
write much about character developments, but in A Beginner’s Guide to Endings, I specially felt
it being very poor.
Although this is a comedy movie, but the comedy elements
were also very poor, and I didn’t find any scene at all which could make us
laugh. But still, the whole A Beginner’s Guide to Endings doesn’t go maintaining a pure serious tone. To
me, this movie is oddly stuck somewhere between being funny and being serious.
There is no nude scene in A Beginner’s Guide to Endings but it has some regular
‘bad words’. I feel its safe to watch it with kids.
So, finally, I didn’t enjoy A Beginner’s Guide to Endings. Although its not
that kind of movie that will make you feel your time got wasted, but to me, its not something
to love. I won’t recommend watching A Beginner’s Guide to Endings to other movie
lovers.
Do you share the same views with me about A Beginner’s Guide to Endings or the
opposite? Let me know your comments.
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