The Art of Getting By

The Art of Getting By 2011

The film revolves around George's friendship with Sally, a girl in his class who is gifted in drawing and is fatalistic.George is a teenager obsessed with death. The sentence he heard as a child deeply affected him. The idiom indicates that people are born alone and die alone and everything in between is an illusion. The thought of death keeps him so busy that it affects his lessons. One day, George sees Sally smoking on the school terrace and saves Sally by pretending to smoke despite the teachers' warnings. They later become friends and the nerdy George starts hanging out with Sally's friends as well. How George and Sally's relationship will end up develops further in the movie...