As Jenna felt angry and saddened, she entered
into a closet and as she bumps back and forth, the magic wishing dust fell on
her and after some seconds, she was transformed into a thirty year-old woman. A
successful, gorgeous and sexy New York fashion magazine editor, living in an
apartment with a live-in athlete boyfriend and who cannot remember even a
single thing about her and to what had happened before when she was just a 13-year-old
preteen. After all, she realized that those things would not satisfy her still
and that would not complete her. She then looked for her childhood best friend,
Matt and only to find out that he has already changed and was already engaged
to somebody else. As Matt gave back the dollhouse to Jenna, Jenna, not knowing
that the magic wishing dust is still working, her dream came true to be back in
the old time.
At the end, they were still the one who got married. The adult
themselves, Jenna and Matt living in a house similarly the same with the
dollhouse Matt gave to Jenna before.
Talking about the directing of Gary Winick,
he was able to create some scenes that would amplify the emotions of the
spectators of the film to laugh, knowing that 13 Going on 30 is a comedy film.
However, he was not able to justify all of the genres of the film at the same
level. I, having watched the film, would not think that the film is a comedy
movie without knowing that it is. The film was more on a fantasy and romance
film. As what you can see in the film, Jenna became a thirty-year-old woman, so
different from what she was before when she was 13 years old and that happened
because of the magic wishing dust Matt gave her on her 13th
Birthday. In this scene, the director have given the audience one manifestation
that the film they are watching is a fantasy film and there are other numerous
scenes that would justify the film as a fantasy one. The film also depicts a romance
type of film. Jenna and Matt, being best friends since their childhood and who became
lovers when they grew up and with the other scenes proved and showed to the
audience there is a savor of love in the film. These two genres, romance and
fantasy has been justified throughout the film. However, there were just very
few scenes that would make you giggle. There is nothing much comic element inculcated
in some scenes or humorous scenes showed. Nevertheless, the movie was great and the
director did not fail to leave a lesson to the audience although it is a fantasy-comedy
film that we do not need to rush things. We just need to enjoy what we have and
to where we are in our lives at the present because we will not esteem the things
that are going to happen if we would be the one who will manipulate the scenes
in our lives by ourselves alone. Just let God.
Most of the scenes in the film were
predictable. There is no room for thinking to what would happen next.
Nonetheless, with Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo’s acting, they lifted up the
film. The charm and the chemistry are in between them that really made this
romantic film great. The music directors also did a great job with the music
score of the film.
The editing of the shots was also great. When
Jenna was still a 13-year-old preteen and when the magic wishing dust sprinkled
on her and she became a 30-year-old woman, the editing of the shots was superb.
Despite the fact that the film is a fantasy one, because of the editing of the
shots, the story looks like it was a real one. The screenplay was also good. There
were numerous catchy love quotes in the film said by the actors that would
really be stocked in the minds of the people who will watch the movie. One
example is the line said by Matt to Jenna, “Love is a battlefield.” It was well
crafted by the film’s screenwriters, Josh
Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa.
13 Going on 30,
this 2004 American film fall under Apparatus Theory. It is defined under Apparatus
Theory that it maintains that cinema is by nature ideological. When people are
watching a particular film, they do not know nor observe that there is already
something that is being programmed in our minds. It seems like the cinema
programs our minds. Like what is in the film, as we watch 13 Going on 30, our
minds are being influenced that in nature we always do something to be able to
be in the line, to be in the flow, to be in the spotlight, as what Jenna did.
Nonetheless, the film did not fail to show to its audience the moral lesson of
it.
(c) Judd V. Bantug