PLOT: While the trailer would have you believe this movie follows two couples equally - one black and gay (Marcus and Aaron), the other one white and heterosexual (Stan and Annie) - the movie primarily follows the lives of the white, heterosexuals as they break up and form new homosexual relationships apart from each other. Stan begins an affair with Marcus, while Annie begins a relationship with co-worker, Annie. And while the two couples try to ‘make it work,’ the lives of Stan’s and Annie’s new partners somehow manage to hurl the two back together – who then try to have an “open relationship” in an attempt to get back together – but at the expense of Marcus, Aaron, and Mandy as they each try to pick up the pieces of their respective relationships in the aftermath. Ultimately, it is not clear how each relationship ends up as the movie ends with a good time-skip later; all the main characters are seen together at a concert but whether they’ve broken up and remained friends or still together is vague.
REVIEW: I think I’m finally seeing what people mean when they say a
movie is “trying too hard.” What it lacks in production capital, it tries to
make up for in ‘depth’ and montages over musical numbers hoping to cover the
many, many emotions these characters are going through while experimenting with
other people. I think this movie definitely wants to say something about
monogamy and how ‘confining’ it is, but I’m not sure what because the
alternatives they try don’t seem to work out for them either. Plus, I wasn’t too
keen on all the musical numbers (Stan is in a band, you guys!).
TRAILER:
What an odd (yet
fitting?) post for Valentine’s Day!
