
I wasn’t expecting a documentary when I rented this movie. No external source evidenced to me that this was a documentary, but regardless I enjoyed the movie. Charline Yi proposed to do a documentary, inquiring of people what love was. She believed that she could never find such a state of being. In My experience the movie began sort of randomly, interviewing people and then we are introduced to the co-star, Michael Cera, who sort of drops in to the role(I wonder if they paid him to co-star in this).
The whole movie possesses an apparent randomness, and really didn’t interest me until Michael Cera started appearing on screen. Cera was supremely funny in his quiet way. At one point in a restaurant, Char(Charlene Yi) And Mike(Cera) are out to eat. They start talking about how Char, at the outset really didn’t want to meet him. In one of his quiet tangents, Cera went off on how she really didn’t like him when they met and really didn’t want to talk to him(similar to his outburst in the film Juno when discussing the baby at school). Abruptly he gets up and leaves the restaurant… There is the longest awkward silence as Char sits in palpable bafflement. Then we see Cera walk in the back door, ” I didn’t think it would take that long to walk around the building”. I died laughing at this prank and other spontaneous things that Cera does. We really see in this movie, how much of his personality he evokes in all of his roles thus far. all his acting seems to be identical reflections of him.
I enjoyed the second half of the movie. So I would say, fast forward until you start seeing Michael Cera.
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April 13th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I was the opposite, I was expecting an intelligent documentary, not a scripted love story.
I couldn’t even make it to the second half. I turned it off. I was ready to poke my own eyes out. I just couldn’t watch it anymore.