what is love on earth?

Rating: 8/10 (27 April 2009)

When I first saw the movie, I couldn't help thinking "what the hell is this?" But when I saw it again, I found the movie hurts. It seems that it shows the reality of modern relationship, and the truth of love, which really hurts. What is love on earth? People say it all the time, yet they forget to think over what is under the four simple letters. Love itself is simple and sweet, yet when people are involved, it becomes complicated and painful. In the movie, the four characters gain love, get betrayed by love, and then lose love. Their love is full of brutal deception. They are selfish and coward. They say "I love you therefore nothing matters", but actually everything matters. They ask you to trust them, yet they themselves don't trust you and always can't stop testing you. And when love goes away, what to do? Beg her to come back? Turn away and leave with a broken heart? Or end up with a man she doesn't love at all? Maybe the unbelievable and indescribable pain is both the pleasure and the greatest torture of love, and the high price you have to pay when love disappear. Of all the four characters, I love Alice most. She has the face of an angel and the character of a devil. Yet under the pure angelic face and the strong appearance is a fragile heart. Her pure and desperate eyes and the drop of tear on her face tell everyone how love hurts. And when she is betrayed, who can answer her heart-breaking questions? "Why won't you let me love you?" "I amuse you, but I bore you?" "Why isn't love enough?" "Where is this love? I can't see it. I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words. But I can't do anything with your easy words." It's true that she lives in a world full of lies yet she loves Dan with a whole heart even when Dan betrayed her. When love is over, she goes back to America with nothing but a broken heart, walking on the street alone, just like five years ago when she was in London. And so it is. What's waiting for her on the next corner, love? Who knows.