Review of Blue Valentine (2010) by Daniel P — 30 Jan 2013
I'm not sure why I found this film so disappointing. Ryan Gosling's hairpiece was part of it - he just isn't that old - and the other problem was that I just didn't care about the characters.
.. the scene that would make me do so was buried in the middle of the film, so for the most part I was just getting annoyed sitting through one flashback after another... and the most charming scene was in all the trailers, so the rest of the movie was just "degeneration of a relationship," done in a really hipster-ish, immature way, with a garbled chronology that must have been designed to make a mundane story more engaging.
Usually I like films that get down in the dirt, but for the most, I just didn't buy this one - the melodrama just didn't match the story, and I didn't believe there was as much pain here as the director wanted me to see.
Unfortunately mediocre, even with two solid young actors carrying it.
This review of Blue Valentine (2010) was written by Daniel P on 30 Jan 2013.
Blue Valentine has generally received positive reviews.
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