Like Crazy is the story of a young couple – she’s from England; he’s from California – who fall in love while in college and then when she is due to go back home for the summer, decides that she will just skip out on her visa and stay with the man she loves. Well, when she finally does go home for a wedding at the end of the summer, they won’t let her back in the country for violating the terms of her visa. So then the story follows their attempts at a long-distance relationship. It’s a very well-acted film and I read, after seeing it, that a lot of it is improvised, so that makes it even more impressive. However, I had difficulty getting over the premise and that distracted me greatly. If they are so in love – crazy in love so much that she can’t bear to leave for a few weeks - then a little bit of distance shouldn’t affect them as much as it did. Also, the impetuousness of just disregarding what your visa says to stay with your boyfriend is really something that I couldn’t get over and, therefore, had difficulty sympathizing with her. At least there are consequences for this behavior... This film won awards at the Sundance Film Festival so I guess it could be nominated for an Oscar or two and, like I said, the acting was good, so I'm glad to have seen it. But I'm also glad I saw it for free.
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