Review of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2014) by Hayden H — 15 Feb 2015

Now if you watched Her first, you are not getting it all. Though really I can see how it wouldn't really change your perceptive of it. Really when I think about it, it really wouldn't make a difference. I just like Him being the first movie better cause Her doesn't really answer a lot of questions.

When I first heard there was movie with two versions of the same story but each in the perceptive of the two leads called Him & Her. I found myself intrigued and wonder why hasn't Weinstein learned from Snowpiercer that sometimes the movie is perfect as it is. I was completely unprepared by this and how deep it was. First, Him is a great start up as it will first set the structure of the story and only draw the lines as we McAvory gives one of his best performances and pretty true tale of the guy perceptive. He feels incomplete with Eleanor and starts to unwind by the seems till he accepts the hard true that she will never come back and forever he will be stuck in love with a woman he knows he'll have again. Him has more comic relief than Her and the lighting is a lot more light as hope is still in the air for Conor. Now in Her, we see Jessica's Eleanor at what many may call rock bottom. We get to see her slowly try to pick herself but only to find out she'll never on if she is with Him. Jessica gives a hard knocks performance that feels so real that I didn't even think she was acting. She struggles to find meaning in life again and in result she is forced to face the fact she must move on. Her is a lot more deep and darker than Him. The lighting is a lot more tense and serious as hope is nowhere to be found for Eleanor. Everything just feels empty. But what Her does that Him leaves wide open, the chance for both Him & Her to be together again isn't a long shot. In fact, like all great loves they can help you find your way back to one another again.

Ned Benson delivers a very interesting experiment that I couldn't help but fall for. He must of had these stories jumble in his head for awhile. Reason I say that because the characters are well thought of and the direction is so on key with the camera angles and keeping true to his original vision.Them is an ambition and I hate Weinstein's interference to make The wonderful Him and Her into a forced confined space that is called Them. I couldn't find a real reason to hate these films. Only thing Id tell people is that the films both don't answer a lot of questions. They leave a borderline version of being enough to go along but also a lot more space than needed. I loved how both characters are not at the same level emotional but yet when they are apart they are more lost than ever. How they struggle to accept, or hell, talk about their child is almost like looking in a mirror. When they do in their own way, they find themselves stronger than ever but still clinching to the love of their lives. Always there even when the other isn't. Now I tell you please watch Him & Her not Them!!!! Them will probably ruin a lot of potential fans of the films because there's no way you'll get the full effect that planned when these movies were made. This will just be another movie that make film buffs say "if only...".

B+ for Him & B for Her also C+ for them. I'm going to tell people to check this out and if they can't find Him or Her then I'll tell them don't waste their time. My Filmmaker P.O.V. I'm happy And honored I got to see both Him & Her as they were originally intended. The Experiment was a complete, messy success.