The city never sleeps when you are young, except for those dark, depressing periods when you hate both daylight and night times. You know you will soon be over whatever it is that you’re dealing with, but the whole world seems to crash in front of your eyes and it seems like you can do nothing about it. You can cry, burn CDs, think of your problem or you can go out, have some fun, meet new people and create strong bonds.

The latter is what I would call a perfect night. We’ve all gone through this at some point of our teenage times and everything tasted so sweet, that we wished for it to last forever. Nevertheless, youth’s delightful touch gets often lost on the way to maturity and its syrupy flavor is regularly the only thing that lingers.

Thus, we try to wrap it up in various mantles, spice it up with other ingredients and create, for instance, adolescence related movies.

“Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” belongs to this particular film category, that gives viewers insight into teenage complexity and young people’s difficult quest to find love or animate true romantic bonds.

The film directed by Peter Sollett takes us back to the roots of youth and beauty. Kids were beautiful in their lack of ostentation and superficiality. Youth meant beauty and beauty was a youthful state of mind. Simplicity and unfussiness used to be the most dazzling accessories and love the most alluring makeover. Being shy did not mean you were a nerd, while being modest had no connection with being old-fashioned.

Nick and Norah are modern in their own ways and they see the beauty in each other. Although we can notice from the very beginning that there is an extremely powerful spark between the two, they become aware of the obvious glint after a not-so-short while.

Nick, played by the adorable Michael Cera (“Superbad,” “Juno”) is the geeky-looking bass player of a garage band, who is still head over heels in love with Tris (Alexis Dziena) although she dumped him months ago. The lovesick guy feels miserable and depressed and burns playlist CDs all day long.

Norah, impersonated by Kat Dennings, is the kind of fine-looking girl whose beauty is ignored by the rest, since she is far from being glamorous, spirited or showy. In addition to this, personal cuteness is out of her own vocabulary, too, as she considers herself a clumsy and awkward know-it-all. Norah has several romantic issues of her own, but nevertheless manages to focus on a fundamental problem: college or work?

For the moment, however, the answer is Nick. The two get together and spend a great night in Manhattan, falling in love on their way to a mysterious rock gig. The actors’ charm, their simplicity and gentleness make up for everything that the plot lacks. And watching two beautiful, interesting and fascinating people fly toward crimson skies atones for the story’s deficiency in complexity and intricacy. Their playlist may not be infinite, but their smoothness is immeasurable.