You don't need to be expert at cinema to perceive the non-conventional quality of this movie. Shot, montage, soundtrack, script seem really "strange", surreal, at the limit of the nonsense. However, despite its alternative nature, it can tell us something interesting and comforting about human nature, and human deepest needs. Through paradoxical, irreverent and and totally disinhibited situations the director Miranda July gives voice to the weakest: the shy, the young, the lonely, those who desperately search for a human touch, for a single person capable of entering their inner, special, rare emotional world. That's why even the most vulgar, and almost disgusting language we hear, ceases to be disturbing, as we can hear behind that language another one, speaking words of love and searching for true affection.
In a way, the movie exorcises the power of modern means of communication, to reaffirm a very simple but universal truth: that still today people need to feel another person's presence, to see one another, to feel the touch of a hand, to sense the breath of one body, it's a need that no technological means will ever replace, and it's a great consolation!
Among all the characters of this choral movie, all united by a subtle but strong emotional line, I identified myself so much with Christine that I couldn't but sympathize with her, I followed her, funnily and desperately obsessed at running after a man, the man, who will probably be able to understand her simple world, bumping into funny and embarrassing situations, feeling uneasy with her blisters on her feet, when everything in her world sounds so easy and she can't make out why things don't turn out as they should, and I just said: it's me!
On the whole, the tone portraying some situations of life is sometimes too honest, unsophisticated and irreverent, however, we can get a delicate, comprehensive and joyous tone of a director who is still able to make herself be astonished by the colours of life. In the end, a very feel-good movie, original, never banal, never rhetorical and also moving.
In a way, the movie exorcises the power of modern means of communication, to reaffirm a very simple but universal truth: that still today people need to feel another person's presence, to see one another, to feel the touch of a hand, to sense the breath of one body, it's a need that no technological means will ever replace, and it's a great consolation!
Among all the characters of this choral movie, all united by a subtle but strong emotional line, I identified myself so much with Christine that I couldn't but sympathize with her, I followed her, funnily and desperately obsessed at running after a man, the man, who will probably be able to understand her simple world, bumping into funny and embarrassing situations, feeling uneasy with her blisters on her feet, when everything in her world sounds so easy and she can't make out why things don't turn out as they should, and I just said: it's me!
On the whole, the tone portraying some situations of life is sometimes too honest, unsophisticated and irreverent, however, we can get a delicate, comprehensive and joyous tone of a director who is still able to make herself be astonished by the colours of life. In the end, a very feel-good movie, original, never banal, never rhetorical and also moving.