THIS IS US

I watched this movie last August 31, 2013 with my Directioner Classmates. The whole thing was awesome. The movie wasn't  like the other movies that has some script or something, this movie is like a documentation about their lives. The whole thing was like telling to the viewers that even though they're already a big thing or at the top of the world, they're still normal people,they're funny, they can joke around, and they mess up too.  It's like they're opening up to us through  a movie. For me it's like there is a hidden message in the movie: "Hey lovely Directioners, thanks for being with us from the very start, we may change physically but we're still the same, we will not forget we're we came from".

Here is the trailer of the movie.

In many ways, This is Us is the quintessential barkada film: a chronicle of five boys, barely out of their teens, growing up and learning the ways of the world on the road. Spur lock throws them into every senti moment possible to mull about how far they've gone: fishing trips, camping, tour bus downtime. If it were any other band, it would have looked too forced, too planted, but One Direction has an uncanny way of making each moment look like a rowdy time in class, when everyone is hyped about the weekend. They admit that they couldn't imagine the band without one of them (they thought of kicking out Zayn early on in their career when he failed to show up at a meeting), they couldn't imagine doing this physically and mentally exhausting world tour without each other’s support.

Having achieved almost every dream a teenager could hope for (selling out tours in hours, number one singles, millions of fans screaming at your face), there’s still the occasional look of shock when the boys are faced with the fact that in three years, they've become the biggest crossover boyband in the world. Growing up in the shadows of Nsync, Boyzone, or even Spice Girls, the band is conscious on how surreal everything has been, considering they were just The X Factor UK’s runners-up. This way, we become implicit to the rise of the “ordinary person” as a celebrity (“We just come from normal, working class families,” Zayn says as the film proceeds to outline the most boring jobs the boys had prior to their success). Every single one of One Direction represents that time in our childhood when singing with a hairbrush meant a future of stage lights and adoring fans; a time when watching your favorite band on TV meant every possibility on the horizon.

This is Us captures a momentary blaze in the lives of these five young boys. They all acknowledge that this fame that they’re enjoying right now can be gone within a couple of years. The average shelf life of a boyband may be growing short as the industry finds more fodder for the audience’s pop dreams but right now all we can do is live vicariously though them, just like the angry Asian dad who watches his kid realize his dream of becoming an Ivy League-educated doctor. Or not.

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That's me(wearing stripes) and my Directioner Classmate (wearing red). Since there's no available 1D THIS IS US Standee at the mall, we just took a photo with the poster.

I don't have this what you call  "my best scene or best clip in the movie", because the movie itself was mesmerizing. There were some parts that made my tears roll out from my eyes. (What? I can't help it, I already knew that the movie will make me cry, though the genre wasn't even drama, yeah so i guess those tears was just half of the feels that I have. DONT JUDGE ME!)

And here's the a music video promoting their movie: