Two Perfectionists Do Not Add Up Except to Horror

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2015)

A lot of people might not understand the plot and sub-plot of this movie. First, 2 flawed people who view each other as perfect get married, and then both are let down when they find out they are not perfect. Once they find that out, they each look for horrible ways to get out of what they did. They then apply that let down to each other and everyone around them.
The levels of torture do get absurd and go beyond what can be imagined.
The second plot is a major condemnation of the main stream media. Unfortunately that is right on target. There are murders which are always convicting people in the main stream media before a trial. This is why lots of people stay out of politics. That and you have to lie in politics and blame what you do on somebody else. Between that and doing everything corporations want you to do, politics have become a dirty business. They always have been without term limits which feed on the dirt an corruption.
Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, and Neil Patrick Harris do a credible job trying to bring card board characters to life. This has to be fiction, but it has been approached in real life. There is a case that has gone through many trials where a man's wife disappeared on 09/11 and even though there was just an acquittal, there is going to be another trial. There is no body in this one that can be found and all the man's friends and neighbors and media had him convicted before the first of now many trials.
I would not recommend this movie for Mr. Harris, he has already lived it and is continuing to live it. The main plot here is not as absurd as the viewer might imagine, and the media reaction is spot on.