A Fascinating Look At Relationships

Rating: 9/10 (24 January 2019)

30 December 2004. This relational drama offers up a continuing evolution of movies revealing a more cynical but valuable look into relationships. Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law, and Clive Owen all provide different personalities on screen and give the audience a rich experience into the levels of love and torment. This movie operates on a number of different levels and gives its audience both cynical omens for dispair as well as hopeful signs for optimism - a little for everyone. This movie avoids the typical, stereotypical ending and leaves the audience all the more educated and developed as a result. The universal male striving for love and sexual validation along with a female's desire for support and commitment are all on display in this version of intimate triangles and rectangles. Of deceit and honesty, of open communication and avoidance and secrecy, of impulse and spontaneity, of salvation and betrayal. All the emotions are on display in this movie and the audience is the better for it. Nine of out Ten Stars.