Cheesy but hits you in all the right spots.

Rating: 8/10 (2 June 2012)

I can see why this movie got overall bad critics reviews. The acting is melodrama at its best/worst (choose your preferable option), the storyline is very one-dimensional. Music pops up almost every important moment to enhance the feelings and the flick is full of cliché one liners.
However, for all the bad features one could think a movie has, this one does all of it at the very best one could imagine. If you find yourself separated from noise, from disturbing lights. Only with a screen in front of you and the audio reaching your ears as would a one to one conversation...then this you will not finish this unaffected. I had trouble holding my tears (even though I'm a guy). All these lost moments from your child hood when everything was still sincere and you could say what was on your mind and how you felt about someone without feeling guilty or having second thoughts, it all comes back up again when watching this. It's highly moralizing too, thus providing a perfect form of escapism to those who are sick with modern society.
Dialogues are 'uncovered', uncalculated. Characters just say what they've got to say. To portray such a wide foray of emotive dialogues is not only daring from a director's point of view but also daring as people are not quickly content and seek many metaphors, non-direct plots and other figures of speech in modern movies.
This movie is not one for the videophiles per se,but then again it's one for the ones among us that want to be stirred not by the cinematic qualities but by the underlying morals and naked emotions.