Cruelly real

Rating: 8/10 (22 March 2009)

There are movies that help me understand life. But there have been only a few that have really helped me understand my own life. This is one of them.
I can not tell you the end of this story. If you smiled in the beginning how silly the readers are to ask what happened then, you will have to realize in the end that you are not off the hook. You will have to find the answers for yourself.
But I know my story and know how that ended. The only thing I did not understand before watching this movie was what went on before that I let it go that wrong. This is how: you meet someone, and know you never want to lose this. But when you do, you get up and carry on hoping there will be more. But you already start the rest on the wrong foot.
In the end you marry a substitute who will win each and every argument because you let them, and will win due to one thing only: extremely low expectations. And from the moment you made these allowances you will never see them straight again. Will not see their shortcomings for what they are, but turn a blind eye, and let them go by.
You can only judge someone you really love. You can be cruel to them, mar them, hurt them, because when they hurt you it really hurts. And that feels like you have the right to hurt them. The substitutes will have their excuses for ever because you are afraid to hurt them. Even when they have deserved it many times over.
And this is the recipe for an unhappy life.
How you script the ending of your own life is your question to answer. But this film will help you think.