Rating of
4/4
Completely Unexpected
Nerva - wrote on 01/29/10
This movie really took me by surprise. Unlike the typical hollywood romance this one took a step back from the glitz glamor and memorable lines and instead told a real, sentimental tale about one mans love life that is just as endearing because of it's realism. I spend too much time during movies trying to figure out the ending and because of this, it really took me by surprise. To me this is like the sixth sense of romance movies, the ending was right in you're face all along but because of all the loops and turns you aren't even aware you're taking you never guess it. I applaud this movie for stepping out of box when it comes to the concept of love in film, which is usually portrayed as two people bound together by inseparable forces to which neither one could ever find another to possibly compare. As much as holly wood would like to tell us and we'd all like to believe in soul mates, a master plan for our love lives, as many of us know that is simply not the case. This movie explores one mans journey through the trials in his own past relationships and unlike most romantic movies that dabble into past relationships they were not made out to be fake or negative in order to make the current one look better by comparison. It's a very real, relatable story that I was certainly not expecting.
