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Emotions without Borders
adrienna-677-73757611 June 2015
Art gives us the option to look at life through different eyes and with that, hopefully, a different perspective. This movie aims to explain that when it comes to our emotions, language and cultural differences have no borders, we are all the same.

To help support this theme the director has made this movie in three different languages, French, English and Chinese. Whilst the basics of this movie is about intersections, and how our life can change when we inevitably come to one, as in life the outcomes can be surprising.

Like most independent movies the viewer does need to work, but not in the storytelling, only in the context of the emotions and our expression of them. Does language really matter when one is angry? Or frustrated? Or in love? How we express ourselves emotionally does transcend borders, and when you add in a series of coincidences vis-a-vis these intersections, the endings are not always predicable.

Highly recommend a second viewing to catch all the nuances.
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The usual unusual stuff
searchanddestroy-113 September 2014
Warning: Spoilers
You may Watch this kind of films, from time to time, since the early 2000s. The crossing fates of some people. Yes, you have already seen a good batch of this kind of films, and mostly small productions, very underrated and ingnored by the audiences. And far away from the blockbusters crap.

So, speaking of this film, you have a poor restaurant maid who is tired of everything in life and who, one day, meets an Asian business man who, himself, has hired a private eye to tail his wife. The wife in question is in love with a sort of illusionist who, himself, wants to quit his wife...And all these six people will have their paths cross.

It sounds familiar for many of us, and for me in particular.

Some offbeat sequences, such as these ones, where the private eye in charge of tailing the businessman's wife falls for her and decides to speak to her. But the problem is that she is from Asia and doesn't speak English. So the gumshoe hires a translator through his cell phone and speaks to the wife with the help of the translator with his cell phone, and hers. So the two people, the detective and the wife, talk to each other with their cell phone, and with just one table between them, in an ordinary café...

An incredible scene. I assure you.

A very pleasant little film. And not so depressing.
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