Two Lovers

This has got to be the most awkward movie I have ever seen. There were times where I was actually uncomfortable. There were also scenes where I thought that I watching a private moment that should have been private. I felt like a voyeur and it made me uncomfortable. I also cringed when Phoenix did some freestyling in the car. After watching this, I would have to think his rapping is a joke and his retirement, because you would think that you would retire after doing a great movie such as Johnny Cash. Paltrow played the same character she always plays. her being in this made me think of Great Expectations. I always wonder when actors play awkward characters so well that they may actually extremely awkward in real-life. The whole time I was trying to figure out the title, but after I looked at the poster it all made sense to me. I think I would have appreciated the movie more had I have seen the poster before watching the movie. Its basically about two fucked up individuals and why two such individuals cannot be together. Its too unbalanced. There needs to be the stable person being the caregiver otherwise it will only lead to heartache. Despite the movie's awkwardness, it wasn't bad. I like Phoneix as an actor and he played the character well, but I don't like him embodying a character like this. There are some blurry lines as to Leonard's life story, since we only see his perspective of the events that have profoundly changed him that left their mark both physically, emotionally and mentally. I liked the ending. It was a strange film and the movie leads the audience into this self discovery and self depricating plot that unfolds itself into what I hope is self realization and not self defeat, but it is not clear.