this film is about a man who wishes he could change his life for the better

Rating: 7/10 (8 May 2006)

this film was fairly strong at the beginning, which is where a lot of films are at their weakest. The way that it was set out at the beginning left the viewer with a lot of questions, which I think helped relate to the confusion of the character. I liked this in a film because I often think films tend to give too much away to the viewer, and I personally like to guess and try to work it out myself, partly because when you're relating to the confusion of a character it helps you understand the emotions they encounter in the situations they are put in, and I found this a lot in this film. A lot of films kill characters and perform a lot of similar acts as though they mean nothing, which doesn't seem realistic, but this film kept it more realistic, and i found it easier to relate like this, because events were treated in such a way that they all seemed to have meaning. Although I thought this film was good emotionally, and kept the viewer entertained at the beginning, I found that after a while I began to understand the point and found it slightly boring, and I found the ending fairly predictable. But in spite of this, the ending left me feeling uneasily satisfied, questioning the rights and wrongs I encountered during the film, and trying to make sense of them all, which I found rather interesting, because, in a way, it showed me the daring to question right and wrong, and whether thats what matters, and also questioned happiness. Overall I quite enjoyed this film but it could have been a bit shorter in the middle.