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If you know what existentialism is then you know how hard it is to think like an existentialist The movie that I watched is The Perks of being a Wallflower and the director of the film is Stephan Chbosky The plot summary of this film is that there is a boy named Charlie who just lost his best friend It is his first year in high school and he is very nervous without his buddy He goes though many ups and downs in his life but he finishes his first year of high school and makes friends I think this movie was odd but it really showed the idea of existentialism because they focused on absurdity isolated and aloneness and focus on other ideas and not themselves The idea of absurdity is really conveyed in this movie One event in the movie that shows absurdity is when Charlie remembers his past and wants to commit suicide Charlie the main character is speaking to himself and he is ashamed and guilty of what happened in his past and doesn t want to keep remembering the same event 

Charlie spoke to himself about it and the doctor about his harassment issue He talked to the doctor about what exactly happened and then the doctor talk to him After that he was by himself for a while and away from many things This relates to the thesis because Charlie was very isolated in this film There was another idea shown in the film which was it focuses on other ideas not themselves The film focuses on other ideas and not themselves and Charlie shows some of these events One event is when Charlie lost his best friend and now he didn't have a friend in school He was going to be all alone and he finally made friends Charlie focused on other things like Sam Charlie was always thinking about other things and not himself For example he told himself that he had to make a friend the first day of school If the teacher was the only friend that he made then that would be very weird It could be because he didn't want people to judge him to not have friends and be a loner Another event that relates to the idea is when he had a crush on Sam Charlie was speaking to himself if Sam would actually like him He was very unsure and didn't want to make the wrong choice Charlie didn't want to just go and talk to her because that would be awkward 

Charlie was confused about what was happening Then Sam and Charlie became friends and got to know each other Charlie figured out that Sam already had a boyfriend and he couldn't date her This shows that they focused more on the other people and not on Charlie which relates to my thesis These are just some examples of existentialism in this film I believe that The Perks of Being a Wallflower was a strange movie but it did hit the idea of existentialism because it explained absurdity isolation and loneliness and they focused on other ideas not themselves Overall this movie was weird but wasn't the worst movie that I have seen I wouldn't recommend this movie if you don't like intense movies