This movie has an Indie feel on it, it is so real and truthful you will feel it sting.
Story is simple. It is about two people falling in and then out of love. In spite the simplicity, you will feel so attached to the characters you will end up sympathizing with them. The story is actually set on the present time where Cindy (played by Michelle Williams) is not anymore in love with her husband Dean (played by Ryan Gosling). Series of flashbacks are done to compare the present times to the old days when the love feels great and is still fresh.
I can say that the script is well done, very poignant-- and as I told awhile ago, it feels so real it stings. I like the scene where Ryan Gosling was such a loser, (reminds me of myself sometimes) getting angry at the hospital, and the script when he said something like: "You promised Cindy, you said for better or for worse. Now, this is my worse." I also love the scene when they where just starting to fall in love with each other-Cindy was dancing, while Dean play his music instrument. I love how romantic Dean's lines were, as in wow, the talk on the bus, everything. But I understand Cindy too. You will appreciate a family guy like Dean, but in the end you want a guy who has big dreams too. That is freaking important for me, and I hope for others as well.
It doesn't have a happy ending, but it makes me feel profound (again). I love movies who shows the real normal reality, not the reality of extreme killings, massacre, or something grave, but reality that happens to normal people that we don't usually represent in films. Moral lesson is: people could always fall out of love. True love does exist, but then people are forever changing. The challenge is to keep falling in love while people change. (I read a quote similar to this somewhere)
I just admired the realness. Will quote again the director for me to remember it: Derek Cianfrance. He is also one of the writers.
I give this movie 4/5, I would like to create a movie like this someday.
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