Thought Provoking

Rating: 10/10 (4 December 2004)

This film is beautiful in it's simplicity- it's about human emotions- jealousy, anger, vengeance, but most importantly hope. Hope that love truly exists. Natalie Portman does a wonderfully convincing job as Alice, Clive Owens is powerful as Larry, but I thought that Julia Roberts and Jude Law could really do a lot better. There seemed to be an emptiness in their characters. Of course, you couldn't really connect to any of the characters, because it's a very true to life film, and you were only seeing bits and pieces of entire lives. I really enjoyed it, even though i won't be able to get Damien Rice out of my head for days (maybe that's not a bad thing- his voice in the background might be part of the reason i loved the film so much). Go see this movie today.