Real, a bit painful

Rating: 8/10 (7 July 2008)

Many people don't like this movie because of its sexual explicitness, and its making sex and love into a "dirty hurtful thing". Sex and love can be a dirty, hurtful thing, though...So many movies in Hollywood make love and relationships an ideal, wonderful thing, which it is if it's healthy...There are good and immature people who can get caught up in bad relationships with people who aren't good for them, and this movie explores that. Just because you have been so lucky as to have good relationships throughout your life doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't look at the other side of relationships that other people go through. Have some empathy. Do you want to end up like this? No. Should people be this way? Ideally, no. But there are many, many people around the world who have affairs, have been cheated on, who have cheated, who have been left and hurt, and that is what this movie is about, so don't expect anything else. That said, it has obviously stirred up many love/hate reactions and is powerful.