Review of Dina

Don't let the review title fool you, this was a good movie. Taking a person's life and making it real is not that easy to do regardless of the situation that person is in. The director takes the life of two people who are so invested in being good to each other that it supercedes every other situation in their life that they struggle with. The simplicity of the story a couple planning a marriage and honeymoon undercuts the complexity of the reality of these two people. The characteristic that moves the story and flatlines the suspense (there isn't any) is the untouchable honesty they share with each other over the most complex things most of us fumble with horribly to talk about. I enjoyed the movie but it wasn't perfect and could have used a little more continuity in the timeline, but I think the way it was done was intentional and other people might like that. Wonderfully real people and an amazingly boring story line makes this difficult to watch at times but pushes us to look at life from an angle very different from what most of us see through an event that most of us go through.