I actually somehow enjoyed this movie regardless of the tons of talking with no action involved.

I mean while watching it i felt bored but then here and there these specific scenes & interactions come up and I am like oh that seems legit realistic and it seems like it can relate to real peoples experiences in those situations.

For example how the main character acts so awkward actually represents a good image of someone everyone must have known at one point of time or just the weird nervous chatter he comes up with seems logically true in how many react in those situations.

Also how he interacted with the other main actress seems genuinely real as i am sure every guy out there has at one point in time not known how to talk to women and then grow from that experience.

I think overall the storyline matches real life expectations & interactions and the feeling of going away to college so far away will make anyone miss their family.

When he cried on the phone it really hit me alot cause I personally can relate to having to go somewhere far far away and alone with no family around and just feeling trapped & wishing to return home in the snap of a finger.

I think alot of people can relate to the films main characters experience of feeling alone & lost and unable to get used too the new surroundings at first. This is what made the movie actually receive a higher rating from me because it didnt feel like I was watching a movie but more so like im watching 2 real people talk & react out how they would in those situations in real life.

I honestly thought maybe their was no script with lines & that the 2 main characters just winged it and spoke whatever they felt their characters would act in real life. It was spot on!

Every once in a while you come across a true slice o' life movie that comes this close to reality. Raiff is just a smidge too gentle and Gelula a tad too harsh (if oddly alluring),but it still works fairly well. No cheap tricks, either, such as the Defining Character Death (except for the turtle). Congrats to Raiff and Gelula.

I'm not 100% positive if I identified with this film's main character more as a former college freshman myself or as someone whose kids will be college freshmen eventually. Either way, Alex felt real - the kind of protagonist you pull for and cringe with and hope will pull themselves together eventually. Raiff's storytelling just feels so true. The college freshmen may be a bit - well - like college freshmen, but they also feel like people who are slowly growing up, together and separately. I'm nowhere close to 19 anymore, but I could still recognize the earnestness and the moments when the world felt so big and so small all at once, when an evening spent walking around campus could feel life changing. Basically, I found it hard not to care about Alex and his peers. I think you will too.