Review of Love (2015) by James L — 20 Oct 2017
Points for sincerity. But few films make a better inadvertent case for:
(1) Editing;.
(2) Moral puritanism;.
(3) Not being a self-centered d1ck-weed.
Love's got great unsimulated sex, if that's your thing. Lots and lots of it. In increasingly dark shots. And credit for truthfully showing something of the relationship between a certain kind of sexual love and the physical act.
That sort of realism is a little like Aronofsky's Requiem For A Dream (a film that was taken from self-indulgent to brilliant only by a supremely gifted editor, which "Love" does not have). But it has nothing of the insight that Aronofsky's movie has; it's only real insight is that limerence is brutal, life-changing, destructive. In that sense, it's curious that the film shows so much sex only to ask the question, Is it wise to do that to oneself?
Whatever the film intended, about a third of the way through, any sane audience member is concluding, "Probably not.".
This review of Love (2015) was written by James L on 20 Oct 2017.
Love has generally received mixed reviews.
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