What do We Love for

Rating: Null/10 (26 April 2009)

When Alice and Dan meet for the first time on the crowded street, they smile at each other, with traces of shyness, which reminds me of the sweet feelings of loving somebody secretly. I have expected the film to be about romantic love, however, as the scenes develop, I find it is full of love tangles.
Alice seems not to be interested in anything except that she wants to keep all Dan's love for herself; although she appears to be cold and tough, actually, she is very fragile and she is just a little girl who needs protecting and loving; she cannot bear to be betrayed, neither does she have the courage to face herself in real life, she chooses to move to another city or change her name when she gets hurt; she would rather to live in her own world as a liar. Dan is a charming guy, but he is a coward. I doubt he knows whom he really likes, Anna or Alice, or both? According to him, the reason why he tells Alice his affairs with Anna is that he still loves Alice, so he doesn't want to lie to her, what an odd logic! The truth is that he chooses to hurt Alice in order to satisfy his selfish desires. I am not quite clear about Anna and Larry, it seems that they have never really entered into each other's life although they try hard to. Anna is Dan to some degree, because she feels guilty after her affairs with Dan, but she dares not to confront herself, especially in front of Larry; she tries to conceal, however, Larry doesn't to allow her to do so, he is such a smart guy, he can read Anna's mind, making her a transparent object in front of him, that's the reason why Anna feels bored and wants to leave.
In this battle of love defense, who wins, who loses? Actually, all lose because, whether they stay together or depart, their hearts are equally empty as, even emptier than before. I can only say that they meet wrong guys at wrong time, maybe they are just the passengers in each other's lives.