Personally I cannot wait to see the new film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower which I am going to the midnight screening of TONIGHT! I can’t be more excited. To subdue my impatience this steamy photo shoot of this male cast will more than suffice.
Long before “It Gets Better,” there was ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ a young adult novel that became a touchstone for a generation. Can the movie follow suit?
There are certain pieces of adolescent mythology that can almost become a necessity, like a lifeline for a kid,” Ezra Miller says. “Perks was that for me.”
Perks is how kids like Miller, wounded teens who barely made it out of high school alive, refer to their tattered copies of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a novel about Charlie, an achingly lost and lonely high-school freshman and the older band of outsiders — —Sam, the out-of-his-league girl, and her confident gay stepbrother, Patrick — who help save him.
To a decade’s outcasts, Perks belongs on a shelf next to The Catcher in the Rye. It pays tribute to that classic indictment of adult hypocrisy, but also tells an updated, unflinching, uncensored story about how many childhoods were not so much the setting of a happy home video as they were fodder for a future PostSecret confession. Long before “It Gets Better,” there was ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ a young adult novel that became a touchstone for a generation. Can the movie follow suit?
Photography by Kai Z Feng
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