A mess.


This movie wanted to reinvent the romantic comedy genre and to be significant as it talks about alzheimer's disease. It ended up being another romantic comedy with some nudity. That's all.

You can't take the characters too seriously because you see from the beginning they aren't believable at all: Jamie dancing with customers to sell electronic devices, Maggie showing her tit because of just a spider bite, secretaries exchanging sex for information about clinic's clients, etc. What on Earth? And then we have all those men obsessed with sex (specially all the doctors) and all those women who would go to bed with them within seconds (just in search of manhood, power, etc.)... There's no depth at all.

The movie is full of cringe-watching scenes like the one when Jamie says "I love you" and has a panic attack, just to mention another one. It's too over the top!

The worst part of the movie, besides selling the image of an American corporation only interested in sales and the workspace as a party zone, is when the guy meets the husband of a woman with alzheimer: this man says that he loves his woman but he talks about her wife as a piece of *beep* literally, that she isn't the same one, that he has to clean her ass, etc. Which man in love would say those awful things about his ill wife? It's a shameful dialogue that makes Jamie change his mind about his relationship with Maggie.

The writers/director tried to repeat the formula of their show "Once and Again" trying to show the real emotions of the characters through black and white images and talking directly to the camera, but it seems artificial and false here.

The moral of the story: record yourself on camera telling your true emotions to your boyfriend/girlfriend just in case memory fails. If Jamie and Maggie hadn't filmed themselves having sex and talking about their real feelings, they would have ended up apart. Thank God for video cameras!

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There's nothing in the bible about video cameras so God is not to be thanked.

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