Silver Linings Playbook Review

Every person around has a story of their own. Every person has an anxiety of their own. Every person is unstable in certain facets of their life. Silver Linings Playbook,the story opens our eyes to this simple truth. The plot, revolves around a Bipolar patient,Pat(Cooper) who is back from an asylum and intends on making things right between him and his estranged wife who is cheating him on his back. On the other hand,we have Tiffany(Lawrence) who has been recently widowed and tries to cope with the stress by sleeping with people. She is blunt,outspoken yet has a soft corner for Pat. Pat desperately tries to win his wife back and in this process,he has to make a deal with Tiffany. The other characters, like Pat Sr., Ronnie are also partly abnormal,have little weaknesses that overpower them. On the whole,the story shows us how we identify the faulty and segregate them,yet all of us have shortcomings-and how the unstable can be perfectly happy,despite their imperfections only with some tweaking.

The film is perfectly cast. Cooper is unbelievable in this serious role, Robert De Niro as the Eagles fanatic with OCD is brilliant. But what remains after we leave the theater is the character of Tiffany,and the bold performance of Jennifer Lawrence. Humor,romance and aspects of human psychology intertwine beautifully which makes the movie a must-watch