I went and saw "the perks of being a wallflower" this afternoon with my dad. I know he wasn't expecting much because he had never read the book. To be honest, I was a little spectacle too because the book was so perfect and I wasn't sure anything could reach the standards the book set. It happened though. The movie definitely did the book justice. Charlie is a character that, I think, anybody can connect with. Because at some point or another, everyone feels the way he did. Everyone deals with things that are out of their control. Everyone has to say goodbye to people the care about. Everyone gets hurt by people that they trusted. It is uncontrollably sad, but that is the case. On the car ride home from the theater, my dad was talking about how great the movie was. He had tears in his eyes as he talked about how those(as in Charlie) were the kinds of kids we worked with when he was a social worker/therapist. Those were the kinds of people he watched and listened to and talked to everyday and it broke his heart.