As soon as the main characters are introduced, their names give away a big hint about how this movie is constructed. This movie is about a woman called HOPE and her lover WILL. And about heroin addiction. 'Broken' is more or less a metaphorical reconstruction about the shattered hopes of a young woman, and her struggle with failure. Leaving home with the dreams of being a sing-a-song writer in LA, but soon finding out that this leads to basically nothing, she starts a path of self destruction.
We see her working as a waitress, in a small restaurant where she meets all kinds of people. In between those scenes we see how she meets this charming guy Will, and how her romance with Will develops into a lot of misery. Will is obsessed by her, but he is the personification of emptiness. He needs her and after she breaks up with him, he desperately tries to get a grip on her again.
At first this movie seems one-layered. It's a bit confusing in the beginning, as you soon find out that the parts of her relationship are not in the same time frame as what happens in the restaurant. Is she having flashbacks? Did she recover from her addiction to drugs? Towards the end of the movie it is slowly been made more clear that basically the people she meets in the restaurant are either a part of her, or show bits of her past. This gives the movie much more depth and it's an interesting concept. In my opinion it could have been worked out a bit better, but still it is pretty well done.
I don't know if my interpretation is right, but how I see it is that Hope is actually the part of her that still has HOPE to escape from her misery. She desperately tries to get a grip on her life, and struggles with the need to fulfill her need for creativity and being valued for her talents, or the acceptance of being nothing more than a waitress. Will symbolizes her addiction, and basically the things that she WILL do in reality. The addiction also WILL get back to her to do everything in his power to seduce her again.
I will not spoil more. It's an interesting metaphorical movie. If you are not into that, watch something else as you might find it quite boring. But if you do like double layered movies and you can stand a pretty slow pace, it's really worth to watch it. It could have been more, and I actually think this movie would do better as a stage play, but it sure could have been less.
We see her working as a waitress, in a small restaurant where she meets all kinds of people. In between those scenes we see how she meets this charming guy Will, and how her romance with Will develops into a lot of misery. Will is obsessed by her, but he is the personification of emptiness. He needs her and after she breaks up with him, he desperately tries to get a grip on her again.
At first this movie seems one-layered. It's a bit confusing in the beginning, as you soon find out that the parts of her relationship are not in the same time frame as what happens in the restaurant. Is she having flashbacks? Did she recover from her addiction to drugs? Towards the end of the movie it is slowly been made more clear that basically the people she meets in the restaurant are either a part of her, or show bits of her past. This gives the movie much more depth and it's an interesting concept. In my opinion it could have been worked out a bit better, but still it is pretty well done.
I don't know if my interpretation is right, but how I see it is that Hope is actually the part of her that still has HOPE to escape from her misery. She desperately tries to get a grip on her life, and struggles with the need to fulfill her need for creativity and being valued for her talents, or the acceptance of being nothing more than a waitress. Will symbolizes her addiction, and basically the things that she WILL do in reality. The addiction also WILL get back to her to do everything in his power to seduce her again.
I will not spoil more. It's an interesting metaphorical movie. If you are not into that, watch something else as you might find it quite boring. But if you do like double layered movies and you can stand a pretty slow pace, it's really worth to watch it. It could have been more, and I actually think this movie would do better as a stage play, but it sure could have been less.