Shithouse

We all love our RA.

A freshman struggling in college befriended his dorm's RA, and they spent the night and learned about each other.

Early on, the movie had a great way of showing how our main character was lonely. Whenever the camera turned to his stuffed animal, there's always subtitles that replied back to our main character. Apparently it was him talking to his friend, the stuffed animal. Another part was that he's a mommy boy. He tried to go to parties, and clearly he was very awkward.

The first half of the story was mostly him on a walk with his RA, and for like 20 minutes it was just them talking. The way they talked was very realistic. It was awkward and had a bunch of repeating words. It just felt like I was watching two real life college students talking, not two actors remembering the script and acting out. This is possible because the two main actors were phenomenal.

Then the conflict happened. Both sides clearly did things wrong, and the movie did not show who's right or wrong. These scenarios definitely could happen in real life. Also, there's no emotional scene where they all made up.

Overall, a realistic and funny slice of life that showed some college students living their lives in college. 8.5/10.

As a college student, I can attest to the tonal and plot accuracy this movie achieves. It does that really well, but is the average day to day life of a college student trying to adjust to being away from home, while constantly shooting himself in the foot make for an entertaining movie? No. Is it worth a full length film? Also, no. This would have been a great 45 minute short. But the tedious and awkward, albeit accurate and realistic, dialogue which takes up the vast majority of this movie, runs dry far before the movie ends. I'm sure some people can relate to the movie enough to find this quite enjoyable, but I'm not one of them. Regardless, I think the is a successful debut for Raiff, as far as debuts go.

So glad to have come across this film. Such a warm, lovely, sometimes painful slice of that time of life. Cooper's film is such an accurate depiction of those early struggles away from home, trying to separate, to make real connections in an environment where that is so often not the norm, even the outcast.

Cooper(and his character)is all heart, so sincere, so earnest, so appealing in every way. On the one hand it is hard to believe that at 23, he could both write and act so beautifully but then again who could do it better than both the adolescent and young man who lived it. How fortunate that Mark Duplass recognized Cooper's gift and moved it along for us all to experience.

Looking forward to Cooper Raiff's next film/films!

Watching this made me miss college and be glad that I'm done with college, all at the same time.

Was that the real version? Does the editor deserves a Razzie? What have I just watched? I'm so confused. This review has the same structure like the movie. I don't think I get the final version. This is still in post-production.