Review of Like Crazy (2011) by Nick O — 27 Nov 2013

Not nearly as dark as "Blue Valentine" yet also not as stylistically idiosyncratic as "(500) Days of Summer", "Like Crazy" is a love story told with elegant pencil-skirt simplicity and presented with the cold shoulder of what amounts to a twee sort of tragedy.

It goes the route of being bittersweet over the polarities of either overjoyed or mercilessly dreary, making the point it's HOW you live with someone else rather than forever fretting over WHY you're with that person to begin with.

There's something haunting in its assuredly melancholic tone. On the surface it carries all the weight of a radio staple pop song, when really its message is deeper, more experimental, if a tad too, well.

Insubstantial. At least compared to the arrowhead daggers of the narrative's otherwise rough, improvised edges. (83/100).