Review of Men, Women & Children (2014) by Lukaswerth — 08 Mar 2015

I saw the beginning of the movie in a plane, and later read it had gotten mainly negative reviews. After I had seen the movie completely, I could not have been more flabbergasted: it does away with linear story telling and the concentration on only one character or two, and instead tries to weave a pattern situated in suburban USA. This is juxtaposed by a narrative about humanities place in cosmos which not only allowed me another handle on the implications of the internet, social media, smart phones on human relations and identities which are the movie's topic, but was, for me, intensely poetic. The film does not have a positive hero, but shows people entangled in their limitations and illusions. never loosing, however, the human touch which evolves in short but intense dialogues.

Watching the movie was at the same time gripping and gave me the enjoyment of a rhythmic pattern, like hearing a symphony. I think it is a great movie which should have won prices.