Flipped

Reverse is a soft, history overwhelmingly safe and innocent little about this critical moment between childhood and adolescence. It follows a boy and a girl, each about 13 years, grew up in the 1960s.

Even if they have been neighbors for years, they realize they know nothing of each other, simply because they have never taken the time to ask, which adds to their already mixed romantic feelings. The recurring theme throughout the film is that perception evokes different truths and truths are much more difficult to decipher when youare a child.

The film is directed and co-author: Rob Reiner, working on a novel by Wendelin Van Draanen. Reiner as a director is accustomed to this time. His Stand by Me (1986), based on the novel by Stephen King, took place in 1959 and focuses on four young boys searching for the body.

This film is darker and more dramatic shades and flipped though not as emotionally compelling or serious the subject is also lighter. The key to the success of the film is the way Reiner makes the story of his people, and not its validity.

He could have easily succumbed to the temptation of showing all the characteristics that place in 1960 – sets, costumes, soundtrack – but he uses these factors, only the state of mind and mood, while the characters in the story-driven.