In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
Example: plot : two teen couples go to a church party , drink and then drive .
they get into an accident .
one of the guys dies , but his girlfriend continues to see him in her life , and has nightmares .
what 's the deal ?
watch the movie and " sorta " find out . . .
critique : a mind - fuck movie for the teen generation that touches on a very cool idea , but presents it in a very bad package .
which is what makes this review an even harder one to write , since i generally applaud films which attempt to break the mold , mess with your head and such ( lost highway & memento ) , but there are good and bad ways of making all types of films , and these folks just did n't snag this one correctly
.
they seem to have taken this pretty neat concept , but executed it terribly .
so what are the problems with the movie ?
well , its main problem is that it 's simply too jumbled
.
it starts off " normal " but then downshifts into this " fantasy " world in which you , as an audience member ,
have no idea what 's going on
.
there are dreams , there are characters coming back from the dead , there are others who look like the dead , there are strange apparitions , there are disappearances , there are a looooot of chase scenes , there are tons of weird things that happen , and most of it is simply not explained .
now i personally do n't mind trying to unravel a film every now and then , but when all it does is give me the same clue over and over again , i get kind of fed up after a while , which is this film 's biggest problem .
it 's obviously got this big secret to hide , but it seems to want to hide it completely until its final five minutes .
and do they make things entertaining , thrilling or even engaging , in the meantime ?
not really .
the sad part is that the arrow and i both dig on flicks like this , so we actually figured most of it out by the half - way point , so all of the strangeness after that did start to make a little bit of sense , but it still did n't the make the film all that more entertaining .
i guess the bottom line with movies like this is that you should always make sure that the audience is " into it " even before they are given the secret password to enter your world of understanding .
i mean , showing melissa sagemiller running away from visions for about 20 minutes throughout the movie is just plain lazy ! !
okay , we get it .
. .
there are people chasing her and we do n't know who they are .
do we really need to see it over and over again ?
how about giving us different scenes offering further insight into all of the strangeness going down in the movie ?
apparently , the studio took this film away from its director and chopped it up themselves , and it shows .
there might 've been a pretty decent teen mind - fuck movie in here somewhere , but i guess " the suits " decided that turning it into a music video with little edge , would make more sense .
the actors are pretty good for the most part , although wes bentley just seemed to be playing the exact same character that he did in american beauty , only in a new neighborhood .
but my biggest kudos go out to sagemiller , who holds her own throughout the entire film , and actually has you feeling her character 's unraveling .
overall , the film does n't stick
because it does n't entertain , it 's confusing , it rarely excites and
it feels pretty redundant for most of its runtime , despite a pretty cool ending and explanation to all of the craziness that came before it .
oh ,
and by the way , this is not a horror or teen slasher flick . . .
it 's just packaged to look that way because someone is apparently assuming that the genre is still hot with the kids .
it also wrapped production two years ago and has been sitting on the shelves ever since .
whatever . .
. skip it !
where 's joblo coming from ?
a nightmare of elm street 3 ( 7/10 ) - blair witch 2 ( 7/10 ) - the crow ( 9/10 ) - the crow : salvation ( 4/10 )
- lost highway ( 10/10 ) - memento ( 10/10 ) - the others ( 9/10 ) - stir of echoes ( 8/10 )
Example solution: N
Example explanation: The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").

Problem: marie ( charlotte rampling , " aberdeen " ) and jean ( bruno cremet , " sorcerer " ) are a comfortable , sixty - ish married couple looking forward to a peaceful vacation at their second home in lit et mix .
on their first , full day , marie sunbathes as jean goes for a swim .
hours later , marie 's initiated a full scale search when jean has n't returned , but no trace of him is found .
marie returns to paris and resumes her life , including chats with jean at the end of each day in francois ozon 's " under the sand .
"
marie 's ex - pat british friend amanda ( alexandra stewart , " frantic " ) and her french husband gerard ( pierre vernier ) try to snap marie out of her denial with a dinner party , where they introduce her to the handsome vincent ( jacques nolot , " nenette et boni " ) , yet marie suggests that gerard accompany her and jean to their gym the next morning .
eventually marie does begin dating vincent , but she discusses him with jean and even smiles at jean , hidden behind a bedroom curtain , when she makes love to vincent .
slowly , though , reality continues to chip away at marie 's fantasy life .
her bank advises her that without access to jean 's account , she needs to reduce her spending .
one of her university students ( she 's reading virginia woolf 's " the waves " ) turns out to be one of the young men who participated in the beach search .
then police arrive asking her to identify the clothing of a body they 've found washed up from the ocean .
that night , jean 's not at home when she returns to their apartment .
her mother - in - law ( andree tainsy ) cruelly insists that jean simply abandoned her out of boredom .
finally , marie goes to the police , insisting on viewing the body .
horrified ( she 's been warned it was in an advanced state of putrefaction ) , she laughs when handed a bagged watch , insisting that this is not her husband .
" under the sand " is a character study and melancholy portrait of aging
( ' i 've lost my youth , ' marie declares ) and loss .
charlotte rampling , given the chance to portray an older , yet still sexual , woman runs with it , bringing us into the mind of the character .
her chemistry with bruno cremet is startlingly natural .
as marie returns from her first date with vincent , she sits on the couch with jean . '
did he kiss you ? '
he asks .
the mood the two create is incredibly intimate and sad .
ozon ( " water drops on burning rocks , " " see the sea " ) , who cowrote the script with emmanuelle bernheim , marcia romano , and marina de van , has turned in a more mature work than his previous , creepy " see the sea .
" while he cleverly never lets us see jean enter the water that fateful day , leaving a number of possibilities - accident ? , suicide ? , escape ?
- open , he definitely tips his hand towards a certain outcome .
cinematography by antoine hiberli and jeanne lapoirie
( " water drops on burning rocks " ) glides around marie ( their 180 shot as she initially searches the ocean 's horizon for a sign of jean conveys her panic ) or captures rampling 's exotic face in mood divining closeup .
in an inventive fantasy scene , marie imagines jean 's hands massaging her feet while in a state of auto - arousal .
his two hands become four , then more combined with her own , becoming almost a one person orgy and recalling roman polanski 's " repulsion .
" original music by philippe rombi quietly adds to the overall melancholy .
" under the sand " is a unique portrait of loss .
it would make an fascinating double bill with liv ullmann 's " faithless " from earlier this year , another character study of a woman facing loss for different reasons .
Solution: P