I Don't Even Really Know Why

Rating: 10/10 (4 June 2012)

To say that none of the main characters in this movie is really likable is an understatement to me. Yet, I have watched this film, many times. It moves me and I don't know why. Is it because it confirms a conclusion I hold about love, about romance? Maybe. Well, maybe that is the reason I like the film so much - it confirms my innermost viewpoint.
No one seems to be setting out to be a liar, a cheat. Do these people wake up one morning and decide to be deceitful little buggers? Doubtful. Sure, Buster is kind of weak and weaselly, Larry is kind of crude and maybe something of a manipulative bully. Alice and Anna are less well defined, their characters seem to be foils or opposites, but really not. That reads as garbled, but is meant to read as enigmatic. Because they are. But accepting. Enigmatic, but accepting.
Somehow, the paths they choose, the decisions they make, just creates a mess. To paraphrase a review I read somewhere, beautiful people behaving badly.