I went away from this movie with a strange feeling of uneasiness. On the one hand I found the movie very well done, with nice pictures and situations depicted. -I liked how the ad with the model and the cat always pops up again. (The irony that a relationship between a pet and a human being is advertised while the humans can't get along with each other...)
But on the other hand I felt that this movie didn't succeed. -And after some thinking, I believe it to be the missing character change! This inability to understand each other (allthough everybody is constantly using cell phones -communication devices without actually communicating) goes so far that at the end of the movie no one has changed for the better -or "learned" something from his mistakes, you could say.
No, I guess the writer (name?) husband of the singing teacher changes for the worse, which is a start at character development, but it doesn't take hold of my attention very much.
Now, why do I view character change as essential? Because I believe that in our innermost, we want to go to the movies to see people succeed. And we see success in overcoming failures and faults, even tiny faults. We see success in becoming a little tiny bit "better". That is not the only goal of movies, I know, to show success, and this movie does a good job of showing the broken reality, but it stops there, instead of going on to show how to relationships could maybe work...
But on the other hand I felt that this movie didn't succeed. -And after some thinking, I believe it to be the missing character change! This inability to understand each other (allthough everybody is constantly using cell phones -communication devices without actually communicating) goes so far that at the end of the movie no one has changed for the better -or "learned" something from his mistakes, you could say.
No, I guess the writer (name?) husband of the singing teacher changes for the worse, which is a start at character development, but it doesn't take hold of my attention very much.
Now, why do I view character change as essential? Because I believe that in our innermost, we want to go to the movies to see people succeed. And we see success in overcoming failures and faults, even tiny faults. We see success in becoming a little tiny bit "better". That is not the only goal of movies, I know, to show success, and this movie does a good job of showing the broken reality, but it stops there, instead of going on to show how to relationships could maybe work...