well I'll just premise this by saying why i chose this movie seeing how I've been on a RSL craze lately it doesn't make much sense does it? well it speaks to me.
i mean see this: last night i tried helping a friend of mine "get with" my ex while fending off my ex best friend who i didn't want her to meet (although i did make that happen about in the middle of the duration of the relationship) and so relationships or on my mind again, and also i just find the movie has a god awful idea at it's core so i want to talk about it.
I'll also add that i really really hate Dax Shepard, i don't know if it's his face, Punk'd or Employee Of The Month, but just as an actor i really don't like him, so excuse me if I'm brutal.
So the break down of this movie is simple, we have the couple, they are in a non intimate loving relationship an come to realize that they are to young to stop wanting other people, they choose a night to both get laid, and they do.
the whole conflict of the story, at the base of it, is: can they trust one another and can they have their loving joyous relationship and have sexual partners on the side, openly? well that's what you'd expect.
but the story has a few twists, and i say no way do they stay honest and happy together. we see both of them finding someone to be with and we see it happening and we assume that it happened, we see that they did. after that they are both full of malice and distrust and so much anger and to fix it, instead of the way they should've in the beginning openly and honestly and with a unity to stay together they lie, or at least it seems they do, and sense the whole movie is about lying and facing things without a real notion of truthfulness the ending does not present a happy ever after scenario, in fact it's a literary open ending, the conflict is not solved and so we each choose what we believe to happen or believe is comforting without guidance other than how we are.
so here are my two endings:
1. they decide to try and openly work it out, there is hate and hurt but they eventually tell the truth and there's heart brake but they work through it to a semi functioning marriage which exists with the pain but also with new trust and love-lust.
2. they keep deceiving they are blissed out on each other for a few weeks and then it blows up in their faces and they brake up.
and that's it, the review went "meh-ish" but I'm summing the movie up with a 3 star on my list, i don't like it but it does have some thought provoking points, the acting did fit the idea but i still hate Dex and it's back to my Robert Sean Leonard marathon (re-screening of swing kids, dead poets society, house episodes and a few new movies...)
have a great weekend world :D