A Different Cinematic Romantic Drama That Scattered and Chaotic

Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2019)

17 March 2010. This is a movie that attempts to be cute using a variety of animation, voice-over, split-screen, slow-mo, semi-documentary techniques along with an unusual jumping back and forth from future and past inserts that only results in a series of short-attention span, sound bite contemporary American skinny dipping into relational romance that almost destroys the essence of the deep and subtle, riveting emotional roller coaster of love as it is actually felt and experienced. The end scenes of this movie almost make up for the chaotic, choppy, jerky editing that really detracts from the potential for a more traditional romantic drama that could have been even more powerful because the edgy script in linear form was likely great to begin with. The unnecessary disjointed cinematic technique did not really serve to enhance the fundamental storyline. Many more romantic dramas exist that truly allow the audience a deeper and prolonged journey into this universal and powerful emotion and experience of love. I too know personally of a Summer and Autumn and I too have experienced the casual relational and the make up and break up and rejection and this movie while offering up glimpses of such lofty life experiences is no way reflects the deep rapture and darkness that it attempts to portray in the way it was directed and shot.