Sunday, March 28, 2010

New York, I Love You

Based on the successful french film Paris, je t'ame, New York I Love You tells about 11 short stories about love in New York City. I read reviews about this movie and it did pretty well, but I didn't really get it. I only understood a few of the movies and the rest didn't really feel finished. I guess I wanted to see more. I like the format of movies that tell multiple stories in one film like Love Actually, but a lot of these stories didn't have an ending or work out. A few of them were cute and made sense, but others I had on idea what happened. I think I would need to watch it again to understand. There were quite a few famous people in it like Natalie Portman and Orlando Bloom and there were also a lot of characters. I guess my problem is that you don't really spend a lot of time with any of the characters or learn their stories completely. Some of the characters I didn't even understand why they were even in the movie. A lot of the stories were also pretty sad and involved death of some kind. It was definitely not a chick flick or romantic comedy.

I did find it interesting how they incorporated New York city into the plot. The movie could be viewed as a tribute to New York City where the characters are in fact insignificant, but what is important is showing how many people are interacting and having some kind of story in the beautiful scenery of the city or central park. It does show different parts as well as cultures that are in New York so it creates a mixture of different economic and racial backgrounds. It also shows people of different professions from writers to artists to business men. It was also interesting how many scenes involved smoking cigarettes. It felt like the way most of the characters interacted was by smoking a cigarette outside with another person. Given how smoking is banned from television advertisement and pretty much vilified in society, it was interesting to show it as a way for strangers to interact and meet in the city.

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