oh my gooodddd.....


i am a pretty big ewan fan and the movie sounded funny, interesting. but was it just me or did this movie go nowhere...sloooowwwlllyy. i watched with my roomate. we were so excited to see it that as soon as we watched the trailer for the first time we called the rental place to see if they had it and then left to get it immediately. man, were we disappointed. i mean it really just meanders for a seemingly reallllyy long time.

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Does a movie have to have "beginnings/middle/endings", "dilemmas & resolutions" and lots of action to qualify as good? Which film school did you attend?

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It was just one of those odd movies that looks at a snippet of normal people's lives. A sort of voyeur film.

There's nothing wrong with these types of movies but most people expect conflict and resolution. And most people don't go to the movies to see ordinary people. They go to see extrodinary people and escape reality.

I've seen some great movies that focus on reality and the everyday mundane, unfortunatly this was not one of those great films. Too many questions, not a whole lot of answers, actually no answers at all.





"Look lady I don't come down to where you work and slap the d!ck out of your mouth".

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This movie left too many unanswered questions for me. Like, why did the guy on the blind date run off; why did the black guy and his wife divorce if they loved each other so much; why did the guy in the dark glasses need the services of the escort?

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Well those questions Barbi, were explained in the film, the guy ran off from the blind date b/c he saw the girl looking at Mark Strong's character and realized his own insecurities (that she was more into the guy she glanced at than him, even though they connected,and his mutterings something about "she won't move but oh the second she sees a good looking guy with sunglasses and a phone etc) and decided he'd bugger off.

And the couple with a daughter, who loved each other, (I'm sure you know there are many forms of love) realized that while they loved each other, were best friends, that they weren't right for each other. They said it in the dialogue, especially her when she said that for all his qualities, for all her love she still knew he was wrong.

I liked Hardy and Sophie's characters, they were my fav funny thing about the movie too, but as a whole the movie was great, all these different people with their different stories, so mysterious all of them. So complicated, if I were you Writer, I'd give it another view and really look at the other characters involved.
But my fav character for plots was the complexity of the couple with the daughter, to be so self-aware, and understanding of each other to let the other one go and be happy was great to watch.

"People don't realize this, but loneliness is underrated." Tom 500 Days of Summer

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Yes, how come Mark Strong and Polly Walker were going on about loving each other, and then he ends up paying her? I really didn't understand that bit.

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He has problems, basically intimacy issues. This is as close to love as he can get.

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