Love in the time of music videos

Rating: 10/10 (17 April 2004)

This movie says some wonderfully true and profound things about relationships in the modern world. Though, if we have human hearts, we will get hurt, we can take them or leave them. If it gets too rough, if it's not quite right, you don't have to stay.
Only by accepting that it will be rough sometimes do we succeed in keeping a relationship afloat for the long term. In that sense, the film comes down against the technological advance on which its plot is based. Running away from and forgetting the things that make us unhappy in the end keeps us from attaining happiness. Only by facing the rough spots and letting them be what they are can we overcome that.
We can try to change it, and end up doing desperate things, making even bigger fools of ourselves, putting ourselves and others at even greater risks. But the hardest thing to do is often the most simple, and yet at the same time the most powerful. The movie conveys this so elegantly and so subtly, you might miss it. This is what I love about this movie.