Review of Third Person (2014) by Stefanie N — 14 Sep 2014
'Third Person' was a star-studded film with great potential. Initially thinking it was another "6-degrees of separation" film, I was pleasantly surprised about the unfolding of the film.
It was slightly unpredictable but little "continuity flaws" helped smooth out the wrinkles of confusion. When dissecting the film further, I thoroughly enjoyed all the small clues from each character's story which gave hints to the true intentions of the overall theme.
It's a film that makes you think and frustrated until the end. But when it comes together and the film is over, there's satisfaction in the unwinding of it all. Only a few criticisms I have: a couple of the stories are predicable and cliche which mirror much of what today's dramas are portraying.
The cheating husband who finds 'love', the grieving family over a lost child, a twisted cinderella story, a hopeless mother, a self-pitying single woman. Each story in themselves are predictable and depressing.
The film is definitely, in aspects of the term, a drama; but a drama that keeps nagging at the fact. Overall, I enjoyed the complexity the formula of the film had to offer as well as the variety of talent in the film, but the overall story (stories) didn't have much depth as one would expect from a complex drama.
It's one of those films I would watch once and unfortunately never again.
This review of Third Person (2014) was written by Stefanie N on 14 Sep 2014.
Third Person has generally received mixed reviews.
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