Well executed on nearly all fronts

Rating: 9/10 (29 January 2014)

The only way this film could have been better is if the protagonist had actually nailed the cheerleader, gotten her pregnant, and ended with the two deciding to run off instead of getting an abortion. I deeply admire the level of honesty that the writers and actors convey about post modern life in a superficial world. All relationships are doomed to either misery or outright failure, and this story almost followed that cold, hard truth all the way through to the resolution. Human sexuality is purely fueled by primitive biological drives, and built upon a foundation of mutual self-deception...sadly, this film had a chance to be nearly perfect by creeping right up to that fact, yet they backed away from it at the last moment.