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Adore, the film

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Alright so before I even begin to talk about the film, can we discuss that hugely awkward thing known as "second-hand embarassment"? I mean we've all experienced it at least once in our lives; someone makes an embarassing speech or eats shit in front of a group of people and for some reason we too feel like we should just crawl under a rock right next to that person because we are just SO embarrassed for them. Yeah, those moments are real. Well imagine that ongoing feeling for 112 minutes and you have the film Adore.

While it has a decent cast, Naomi Watts and Robin Wright whom are lovely, that's all the praise I can sing about the film. (Well and the fact that one of the leading men, Xavier Samuel, is almost too beautiful to look at for longer than like a minute at a time). Anyhow, the film itself was just so awkward.

**SPOILERS** The story follows two disturbing, and frankly, basically incestual relationships between two older women and two younger men. The disturbing factor comes into play when you realize these women who have known eachother since birth and raised their sons as brothers basically, are dating EACH OTHER'S SONS. What. YEAH. What's worse is they know and encourage each other to do so while the four begin to spend time together as couples. What, WHAT. YEAH I KNOW.

Now, I'm all for strange or even risque films. Foreign films are usually my favorite ones and so many of those explore taboo subjects, yet there was something about the way this story was executed that just made it so unsettling. I just felt very uncomfortable the entire time and I honestly can't think of way for a plot like this to not be uncomfortable. I guess this is one of those books that should have been left as such without a film adaptation.


 

Celeste and Jesse Forever

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             Jesse and Celeste forever was much like 500 Days of Summer, a reality that sometimes it doesn’t always work at the end. Written by Rashida Jones and William McComark, it follows Jesse (Andy Samberg) and Celeste (Rashida Jones) through the life after their divorce. Having been best friend for most of their life it was hard for them to let go of that friendship even though it was Celeste idea. When Jesse finds out that he has gotten a girl pregnant, the reality of her choices has become apparent and she slowly starts to lose herself. Even though it was her idea, she is finding that she feels like she had made a big mistake seeing Jesse is moving on with his life and he is becoming the man that she had always wanted him to be.

               It was a reality that many people are finding these days and it is amazing how something can change so quickly and make our life goes into another direction. At some point in time we are all thrust out of our comfort zone and we are never ready for it. You can not all ways expect for things to change and if you really want to be with a person then you shouldn’t just let them be because someone else will want them.

         It was good movie over all. It was the first film written from Jones and she along with McComark had great character development. You kind of felt bad for Celeste but at the same time it was her fault. Not everything works out. There is life after a break up and sometimes people forget that and that’s for both people, not just one you cannot expect for someone to pine after you and it is selfish to want that. For our man lady she was kind of hoping that would happen and it was a harsh reality when she found that her counter part had moved on so quickly.