Friday, August 21, 2009

Don't Take the Dare

Love Me If You Dare
directed by: Yann Samuell
starring: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard
Rated: R for language and some Sexuality


I was looking forward to this extremely creative, French, light-hearted romantic comedy. It was creative, French, and some-what of a romantic comedy, but it was not light-hearted. Julien and Sophie's hedonistic pleasures (often discussed and shown) sends them on a wild game of crushing others' feelings and hurting every-known person they've ever met and "loved", all in an attempt to always take up each other's dares. The "body count" of innocent victims emotionally traumatized by their game (which includes a loving wife, husband, children and a some-what loving father) has no affect on their behavior. And we're supposed to ignore the consequences of their actions and cheer for them to get back together in the end? Please, grow up you ignorant fools. This movie was intelligently called "Love me", because that is the only person anyone loves in this movie; themselves. Don't take this dare.

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