Okay, it's a good movie, but trying to compare it to other movies not even in it's genre (Meg Ryan movies, for example) is beyond ridiculous. "Oh it's just so cynical!" "Oh it's ever so subversive!" "It's cool because it turns other genres on their ears!" I've heard all the pretentious crap.
This is a good, even great movie. Not for any of the pretentious reasons, but for all the conventional ones: it is extremely well written; it is superbly performed; and it explores its subject matter (depresion and suicide) in a fresh but very truthful and unflinching way.
This is a movie I would recommend anyone watch, but only because it's a great film, not because it is some film student's idea of an antidote to movies he has been told it isn't "cool" to like.
I happen to think "You've Got Mail" is a wonderful movie, and there is room in the universe for BOTH films.
My recommendation for this one: most definitely see it, you will enjoy it.
This is a good, even great movie. Not for any of the pretentious reasons, but for all the conventional ones: it is extremely well written; it is superbly performed; and it explores its subject matter (depresion and suicide) in a fresh but very truthful and unflinching way.
This is a movie I would recommend anyone watch, but only because it's a great film, not because it is some film student's idea of an antidote to movies he has been told it isn't "cool" to like.
I happen to think "You've Got Mail" is a wonderful movie, and there is room in the universe for BOTH films.
My recommendation for this one: most definitely see it, you will enjoy it.