Blue Valentine: One and a half thumbs up.
This true-to-life storytelling of a couples journey was not exactly what I expected. Overall it was really a pretty gritty tale yet it still somehow managed to not be pretentious at all. Nearly all the scenes felt very personal, and as a result you felt either uncomfortable or a part of some of these very intimate moments, sometimes both. I liked the way they laid out the movie, jumping back and forth between past and present - but in some instances i did think it took a little away from the emotion of the scene. Hmmmmm, I might be contradicting myself there. Oh well. My only other critique would be that despite the fact that this was a movie about emotions, it felt like there were chunks of the movie missing explaining some the reasons for the couples actions, particularly the girl. That could have been simply a little over acting on her part, but I'd be interested to see what hit the editing floor. Anyway, without continuing to give much more away I will say that I would certainly recommend this movie to just about anyone (over 18) and all the things I didn't like about the movie are all the reasons why it left me wanting for the movie to go on.
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