Real Life...

Rating: 3/10 (19 January 2006)

...for people who've never actually experienced any hardship. Like middle-class kids who've been pampered by mommy and daddy since birth.
The main character has supposedly suffered childhood traumas enough to torture any person with guilt and depression for the rest of their days. Yet this guy wanders through the movie, looking little glum, and it all ends... well I don't want to spoil it for you.
And the Natalie Portman character - what is she supposed to be? She does this quirky, small-town, teen-girl routine. She looks about 25 but acts about 9 years old. I understand the writer was trying to make her "different" but it was all so forced and just didn't ring true at all.
Just like the rest of the movie.