Review of Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007) by Michael M — 04 Aug 2013

Wristcutters is really your standard romantic-comedy/road trip movie, except all the main characters are dead. It takes place in a weird sort of afterlife reserved for people who have committed suicide. This world is described as the perfect punishment because "everything's the same here, it's just a little worse." The whole world looks like one of the more barren areas of New Mexico, there are no stars, and no one can smile. It is here that we find our lead Zia (Patrick Fugit) and his post-mortem friend Eugene (Shea Wigham), a Russian musician who lives with his mother, father, and brother, all of whom have committed suicide. After Zia finds out that not long after his own death, his girlfriend committed suicide, he and Eugene set out on a trip to find her, picking up hitchhiker Mikal (Shannyn Sossamon) who seeks to find the people in charge as her death by heroin overdose was accidental and not a suicide.

So as you can probably tell, this movie falls strictly under that classification of "quirky." It's very strange, very dark, not everything that happens makes much sense, but this is really part of its charm, and it's pretty godamn charming. It's the story of life after love, and love after life. It's just a movie that's like nothing else, and I couldn't help but fall in love with its dark sense of humor and bizarre charm and wit.