You gotta take this movie for what it is. I mean, this is the kind of film where two of the main characters engage in a casual conversation about their concurrent lives while the guy gently caresses the naked breasts of the girl "as a friend". Yes, when she tries to resist his cuddles with admonitions, the guy retorts by saying, "But... I just wanna hold you naked."
But the movie does have some neat ideas. It's just that the writer didn't have enough chops to make it a competent one. There's no sense of direction, neither from the director nor within the characters. The role Jennifer Rubin plays is supposed to be the epitome of the independent American woman. She has recently divorced her husband, got out of a relationship where the partner wanted way too much commitment than she was willing to make; and after all that mostly off-screen hoopla, she engages in an exclusively physical relationship with one of her colleagues while trying to work out the friendship with a screenwriter who tries to go over the thresholds of physical intimacy every now and then.
An aspiring screenwriter herself, she has agreed to act in her friend's movie as he tries to corral all the funding he can get from his fellow businessman friend. But he's still struggling with the characters he's writing. So he seeks Rubin's help to write a coherent screenplay by offering her to move in with him.
I think Sibay (the writer-director of this movie) wanted to mirror the volatility of the characters of the story within the story through his own characters too, but his approach was too lax to bridle the narrative as it goes. The movie seems undeniably amateurish with something short of a first draft for a screenplay. The last line uttered by the Rubin character in voice-over was probably the departure point of the whole theme underlying the film, which makes it all the more lugubrious of an experience to know that such an exciting interplay couldn't make it through the creative suffocation of the production team.
Then again, Jennifer Rubin has a wonderful body. Her occasionally bulbous breasts have graced the screen quite a few times-- which is enough in itself, but not enough to hold a viewer for 90 minutes in front of the screen. But I achieved the feat, and so can you.
But the movie does have some neat ideas. It's just that the writer didn't have enough chops to make it a competent one. There's no sense of direction, neither from the director nor within the characters. The role Jennifer Rubin plays is supposed to be the epitome of the independent American woman. She has recently divorced her husband, got out of a relationship where the partner wanted way too much commitment than she was willing to make; and after all that mostly off-screen hoopla, she engages in an exclusively physical relationship with one of her colleagues while trying to work out the friendship with a screenwriter who tries to go over the thresholds of physical intimacy every now and then.
An aspiring screenwriter herself, she has agreed to act in her friend's movie as he tries to corral all the funding he can get from his fellow businessman friend. But he's still struggling with the characters he's writing. So he seeks Rubin's help to write a coherent screenplay by offering her to move in with him.
I think Sibay (the writer-director of this movie) wanted to mirror the volatility of the characters of the story within the story through his own characters too, but his approach was too lax to bridle the narrative as it goes. The movie seems undeniably amateurish with something short of a first draft for a screenplay. The last line uttered by the Rubin character in voice-over was probably the departure point of the whole theme underlying the film, which makes it all the more lugubrious of an experience to know that such an exciting interplay couldn't make it through the creative suffocation of the production team.
Then again, Jennifer Rubin has a wonderful body. Her occasionally bulbous breasts have graced the screen quite a few times-- which is enough in itself, but not enough to hold a viewer for 90 minutes in front of the screen. But I achieved the feat, and so can you.
