How does Alexandra love Leon?

Passion and commitment? Yes. He has those, but he devotes them to living a fantasy.

The whole Alexandra storyline killed this movie for me. The humour and the story were fun, the cast did a good job, especially the high school kids, but the romance was too far.

They actually did a good job at first, where Alexandra dismisses Leon's advances. She brings it up once, and briefly, how Leon doesn't love her for who she is, but for a series of coincidences that have nothing to do with her being a person. This is, most of us would say, an illusion that Leon is trying to keep alive by having people come into his life to play their roles and then leave when necessary. But these aren't just characters from history coming back for his benefit. These are real people with real personalities and lives. None of that matters as long as they play the roles that Leon requires them to play for as long as they supposedly did in the past.

I'm not saying Leon is crazy and needs help. Leon is free to live his life believing he's the reincarnation of Trotsky, but Alexandra doesn't believe that she's the reincarnation of Trotsky's wife. And yet the plot requires her to fall in love with this random guy who barely knows her except some little details out of a dead man's biography. Hell, what does that say about when Leon talks about finding his second wife to her face at the end of the film?

In that regard, the movie annoyed me. And those scenes and issues made me less willing to go along with the rest of the movie because the same principles apply to his leading the schools in protest, antagonizing his father, turning his sister and class mates into lapdogs...

So yeah, ultimately this movie was a near miss for me. As funny as some of the moments were, the issues above just keep re-surfacing in my mind when I think of the film.

A bit unusual to comment on a 2 year old post, but have to point out that all stalkers have a degree of passion and commitment. Thats usually why they are stalkers.
The romance in this film was seriously creepy.

ugh, the rest of the movie was creepy as well. So the film-makers think it's laudatory to hold people hostage if your cause is right? There's quite a bit of question if the guy has any cause at all other than his own self-publicity.

I hated highschool. I hated the teachers and the administration. This movie had me rooting for the authorities. What a self-righteous, smug little prig this idiot is. Also, typically, Hollywood ignores the real history of trotsky and his complicity in the murder of millions of Russians and minority ethnic groups and celebrates him as a hero- someone young people should emulate.

"Completely agree. Movie was good up until the point Alexandra randomly *beep* this 18 year old weirdo. Made absolutely sense and was completely inconsistent with the movie up to that point."

==She was drunk. I just watched this movie.