Movie geeks can understand music geeks.

Rating: 10/10 (21 April 2001)

Best one for me after "Gladiator". Because I am a movie geek, I could well understand how music geeks behave. They tend to stick to the past failures and to be occasionally reminded of past broken loves. On the other hand, it describes the complexity of love affairs and sentiments in modern and urban life, in particular, for people working in the artistic type of jobs. Owing to excellent script, all personalities are quite lively, and narrations by John Cusack are effective. Very funny and makes you laugh a lot. Because there are a lot of music we can enjoy through big screen Dolby sound system, and because we should not miss the funny words and sentences, we had better see this in the theater, not by video at home. By the way, I recognize John Cusack is really handsome, because he is "proof against" many and long close-ups, which occupy considerable percentage of the film. He is much better than in "Being John Malkovich".