Movie Reviews: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Richard Karlsen (Jack Reynor), the handsome young hero of Lenny Abrahamson’s is too good to be true. A schools rugby captain and the alpha male of his peer group in leafy south County Dublin, Richard is thoughtful and sensitive, “the male equivalent,” as one of his friends says, “of the Rose of fucking Tralee”.
Loosely based on Kevin Power’s novel Bad Day in Blackrock (2008), which was inspired by the media coverage of the brutal killing of a Dublin schoolboy by his peers, What Richard Did is a character study of an intelligent young man who tears his golden future apart in a moment of booze-fuelled jealous rage.
