If only you could rate it a negative number

Rating: 1/10 (15 February 2017)

I will start with what I actually liked. The end credits were amazing,I was so thrilled that this pathetic excuse for a movie was finally over. I can't remember the last time I was so grateful to see 113 minutes of pure misery come to an end. That should sum it up.
First of all, I have no idea what I was supposed to gather from this sorry movie. It seemed so promising, since singledom and relationships are a recurrent theme in today's society. What looked like an intriguing idea - the stigmatization of single people - took a sudden turn for the absolute worst. At this point in the movie, which is maybe 20-30 minutes in, the director decided it was a good idea to add a bunch of random elements, so that by the end of it everyone felt confused and as if they wasted their time. And boy, was that so. On one hand you have some delusional, closed minded people, who throw communist parties and force others to form a couple, or else they are turned into animals. On the other side you have a gang of sworn single, sadist hipsters who engage in equally aberrant activities. In short, whoever made this movie abused stereotypes on either side to the point of absolute confusion. It's dumb to be in a relationship because you clearly started from false pretenses and it's equally useless to be single because you'll either become mentally ill or fall in love and therefore fall in the first category.
Second of all, it wanted to be such a quirky, progressive and abstract movie, and yet it got trapped in the most basic and boring stereotypes. In no particular order: the man on the journey to find happiness, the man pretending to be something he's not to fit in, the man falling trap to human nature, the pretty and dumb woman, the desperate woman with a distinct habit and the list can go on.
Furthermore, what is with the director and animal cruelty? If he's got that kind of issues, he should see a psychiatrist and not make movies. But maybe he did that to divert attention from how obnoxious his movie was, hoping that viewers will think something other than what a waste of time it was.
I have noticed this movie is a comedy. Yes, the way it trashed what could have been a thought provoking piece of art is indeed laughable. It's a shame really.
As a conclusion, I can assure you everything else you might want or have to do is better than this movie. Even a rom com or an adaptation of some John Green book will leave you with a sweeter taste in your mouth.