Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Valentine's Day (2010)






















What do you do when you jam-pack a wide range of actors into one movie? Give them a story before they come together at the end. We watch several characters experience Valentine’s Day in their own perspective, including the children! So what does movie revolve around? Infidelity, sexual encounters, heartbreak, passion, disappointment, loneliness. It is as though we are being reminded of the hurdles of real people on Valentine's Day. Several stories are separate and unrelated, but a few converge at the end as though to favour the story of one lonely, pathetic soul who hates Valentine's Day.
In all one viewer cannot keep up with several unrelated stories; not to mention characters' attempt to make some laughs only resulting in a sour taste. This movie builds up to moments which most viewers with a brain cell would avert: silly dialogue, desire for media attention, teenage escapade, children's experience and 'knowledge' of Valentine's Day. This movie basically paints a negative picture of Valentine's Day.

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