This film set out to be thought-provoking and it is. For me it repeatedly provoked the thought, "why am I watching this?" I suppose it was a masochistic urge that kept me in the viewing seat and a totally unfounded optimism that somehow the confusion would clear eventually. It didn't.
The film attempts a "sliding doors" approach except that it was often hard to know which version of the relationships you were watching. It's a pity as there were some good points raised. A further piece of post-production editing adding chapter titles or some such might rescue this film.
One final point. This film is categorised as a comedy. I checked on definitions of this word and the first was, "A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict." I would nearly laugh at paint drying but this film didn't even eiicit a smile. There seems to be a tendency nowadays to label many films as comedies when they are not even as funny as paint drying!
The film attempts a "sliding doors" approach except that it was often hard to know which version of the relationships you were watching. It's a pity as there were some good points raised. A further piece of post-production editing adding chapter titles or some such might rescue this film.
One final point. This film is categorised as a comedy. I checked on definitions of this word and the first was, "A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict." I would nearly laugh at paint drying but this film didn't even eiicit a smile. There seems to be a tendency nowadays to label many films as comedies when they are not even as funny as paint drying!
