The split screen took a while to adjust to, especially when the two screens were showing slightly different moments in time. Perhaps I should explain, this whole movie is shown in split screen, ostensibly showing the point of view of the woman (Helena Bonham Carter) or the man (Aaron Eckhart), but often it is just two points of view of the same scene, usually at the same time, but occasionally one is ahead by a minute or so. Overall it is innovative and once one is used to it, it works fairly well.
So the man and a woman are at a wedding reception, he spies her and is instantly drawn to her. He definitely knows what he wants. She parries his attempts and seems more bored than interested, which explains why she lets him stick around. As they talk, we slowly realize that they knew each other in the past. Maybe more than just friends, maybe more than just lovers? This movie of words and conversation explores the follies of youth and the desires of early adulthood, our search for stability and happiness and our coping with it all through the eyes of the man and the woman.
This movie is like a Ritz Cracker. Usually I eat them with cheese to provide texture contrast and to soften the cheese flavor. But if you ever eat a Ritz slowly and by itself, which doesn't happen often in our scarf-down culture, it is quite an amazing cracker. It is amazingly buttery, always crisp and clean tasting. It doesn't leave bits in your mouth like a Triscuit. The savoriness is filling and satisfying, but it's still a cracker, not a meal. If you're going to take the edge of your appetite, you need the cheese. 6/10
http://blog.myspace.com/locoformovies
So the man and a woman are at a wedding reception, he spies her and is instantly drawn to her. He definitely knows what he wants. She parries his attempts and seems more bored than interested, which explains why she lets him stick around. As they talk, we slowly realize that they knew each other in the past. Maybe more than just friends, maybe more than just lovers? This movie of words and conversation explores the follies of youth and the desires of early adulthood, our search for stability and happiness and our coping with it all through the eyes of the man and the woman.
This movie is like a Ritz Cracker. Usually I eat them with cheese to provide texture contrast and to soften the cheese flavor. But if you ever eat a Ritz slowly and by itself, which doesn't happen often in our scarf-down culture, it is quite an amazing cracker. It is amazingly buttery, always crisp and clean tasting. It doesn't leave bits in your mouth like a Triscuit. The savoriness is filling and satisfying, but it's still a cracker, not a meal. If you're going to take the edge of your appetite, you need the cheese. 6/10
http://blog.myspace.com/locoformovies