Review of The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) by Mery H — 22 Jun 2010

The Life Before Her Eyes opens up with the typical high school day of not really caring about classes and dishing on whoâ??s doing what with whom. But as Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) and Maureen (Eva Amurri) discuss life and death affairs in front of the bathroom mirror all hell breaks loose as a student, alienated and depressed, begins to pen fire throughout the school. Eventually he makes his way to the bathroom and the life changing event for these two girls.

Flash to twenty years later and Diana (Uma Thurman) is married with a child, but the past still haunts her. The events of that day leave a thick cloud over her world and dictates what she does and where her child goes to school. As the anniversary of the event approaches Diana finds that it is allowing for her life to spiral out of control.

This is an OK exercise in examining the teenagers we were and how they became the adults we are today. Wood and Amurri keep the audience interested while Uma begins to bore us to the point of annoyance. She either over sells it or under sells it and it coats the film in a funk that it doesnâ??t really get out of. A competent film that youâ??ve never heard of it does present an interesting premise, yet director Vadim Perelman tends to go a little to artsy with the film. Itâ??s a slightly above average film at best that youâ??ll watch, roll over, go to sleep, and forget about in the morning like a nothing special dream.