Questions I had after the film ended * Spoiler Alert.

I'll take that excuse for a film like "True Lies" when Arnold is constantly shot at but never gets it. Not for a film entirely based on two characters set in a real life circumstance. You can't throw the "it's a movie" line for this film.

I think there are a few things that need to be considered regarding the "diary".

The whole cancer story comes from the entry for "Monday". We do not see the entry on screen, nor does Pierre. We only ever see "Tuesday". We must question whether "Monday" even exists. "Tuesday" could well be real, this is perhaps why she gives him the suspicious and slightly alarmed looks whilst on the phone and he is on the computer and also why she is so horrified when she discovers he has read it.

"Monday" is in my view Katya either improvising or opening another document, in full knowledge that if Pierre went to his editor claiming she had cancer then he would look like a chump as that is part of the plot of her TV show. The mention of cancer was a calculated move. Firstly to throw Pierre off the [in my beleif truthful] revelations from "Tuesday" and secondly invalidate any of Pierre's other claims about cocaine / her boyfriend / her lusciviousness as he would be shown to be a liar.

We learn throughout the film that Katya is keen to avoid her boyfriend. She lies to him on the phone, does not answer the door to him and even kisses Pierre to prevent him letting the boyfriend in. The lengths she goes to makes it entirely plausible that she is secretly repulsed by him.

When she is kissing Pierre for the first time, as soon as the phone rings she mumbles "God I hate you" and then upon Pierre's probing she shouts "I said I HATE YOU, what the *beep* did you think I said?" Perhaps the initial comment could have been directed at her phone (which she would have known was her pesky boyfriend). The second comment was possibly her covering her tracks, being fully aware that she was in the presence of a journalist. This happens again when they are lying on their backs on the sofa staring at the ceiling when Pierre tells the story about his brother + his suicide attempts which he claims he feels are just to "torture me". It is at this point that the phone rings and she says "do you realise that you are unpleasant?" She could of course be referring to his comment but it seems slightly random and out of place. I feel it could be an ambiguous comment which is once again directed at her phone (+ boyfriend).

Thus the entry for "Tuesday" - that she is disgusted by "Evan" in all ways could well be directed at her boyfriend. Also, when she says on the phone to her boyfriend, "I love you", she does so insincerely and in an attempt to prove a point to Pierre. It's not so hard to beleive that the engagement is for money/media attention but Katya is not so shallow and two-dimensional that she is able to go through with it without feeling repulsed.

She claims the "diary" is a character study for Amy. Yet we are constantly made aware that Katya only takes up the commercial and shallow roles. We see Katya watching "Amy" on TV and the programme is clearly directed at a teen audience, for "Amy" to harbour such dark and "real" feelings seems highly unlikely and out of line with such a show, even if she did have cancer. In the brief extract we are shown, her character is seen conversing with a male who she claims to miss and is heartbroken when the male kisses another woman. Is this male Evan? If so then the feelings outlined in the diary do not seem to tally with the plot of the show. It should also be remembered that Katya writes the entry, not Amy. Although the aim is to do so "in character", perhaps Katya is projecting her own feelings into her character. Perhaps in this way she undergoes a process of catharsis, she certainly could not confide this information in anyone else considering her position. It's hardly surprising that someone who leads a shallow life in public is only able to confront her inner demons by assuming the role of one of the people she portrays.

Anyway some of this might seem a bit of a stretch but these are the aspects that struck me (upon my 2nd watching of the film this morning). I cannot beleive that the entire diary was a lie, it makes little sense. I think Katya is a clever character with dark demons. The blackness could be anything - the hollow existence she leads, the absence and death of her father - we see no photos of any other relatives, there is no mention of her mother and in the photo of her as a child she is standing on her own.

As a side note I felt Sienna was excellent in this, she definitely stole the show for me. I really empathised with her character, I wanted to like her and in the end I did. I'd never really considered Sienna before this film but now I am most definitely a fan, I hope she lands some big roles i future.