a reflection...

Rating: 7/10 (26 January 2005)

I liked this movie, just watched it yesterday. I found the script brutally honest in some parts. Lets face it. In real life we cheat, lie and have sex. So do these people.
But...I don't understand how Alice/Jane could be so in love with Dan, but lie to him for four years and not tell him the truth about her name. Thats the one thing I didn't get. I was told that it is explained in the strip club seen with Larry, but I still didn't get what her motivation was.
Overall, I connected with the three characters, not sympathizes. Not Alice though, She is a complicated cat that I just didn't understand at the end. But maybe that was her job as a character. She seemed to be the victim through the whole film, yet when we find out the truth, we feel betrayed as an audience...just like Dan would of. Cos in the end, arn't we supposed to feel sorry for him and Anna? Them being the two main characters who arn't together, even when they love each other.
So anywayz, I see where they are coming from, and it scares me that we as people are like Dan, Anna, Larry and Alice too. Because in the end, we don't like anyone of the characters...yet thats us.