Shallow characters can't tell a deep story

Rating: 5/10 (25 December 2009)

Every character in this film defines much of their personal worth around a corporate job or a superficial relationship, and when they lose the job or the romance, they act aggrieved and devastated. In real life there are people like this, but there are also people that have established enough self-esteem that they can handle change without being a victim of it. If just one of the later type of person had showed up in this film, it would have been a much more meaningful story.
At the end of the film, the screenwriters have a couple characters attempt to share that their families are what's most important, but it comes across as an escape hatch in a film that established its cynicism in the first 10 minutes.