Ultimately, I could never conceive of why they fell in love. Everything felt so by the numbers. Meet-cute, sexist dad, then the go for a walk, then they go in the water, then they write to each other, then...and so on...oh, and then the interesting plot point happened...y'know, the point of telling the story. But it just happened. It should have been so much more.
I understand 'show, don't tell', but, man, did this need some details. Even plot points were left out. It almost felt like the only time the movie ever said anything was during the sex scenes. These were jilted and strange. I think there was one shot where they looked like they were enjoying themselves (pretty crucial, if your entire movie hinges on its sex scenes).
Oh, there's an octopus in one of them. And something that looked like VHS reel (but since VHS wasn't invented yet...) Fetishized, yes, porno, no. Just an uncomfortable mix of kink and some rolling about.
In the second half of the movie, some more events occur (this is, effectively, where the story kicks off). But, again, strange things keep happening without reason. One of them gets pregnant. I figured it was a pillow and it was all for show. No, she's pregnant. I have no idea how.
Then a happy ending was delivered for them. But one of the characters refused it. Even after abandoning her child to be with her.
In some scenes, there was so much missing, at times I could not tell what was happening. The reason why I am nitpicking about things like plot, that don't necessarily have to really matter, is because I was so unconvinced by the actual love story. And so much of made no sense.
I understand 'show, don't tell', but, man, did this need some details. Even plot points were left out. It almost felt like the only time the movie ever said anything was during the sex scenes. These were jilted and strange. I think there was one shot where they looked like they were enjoying themselves (pretty crucial, if your entire movie hinges on its sex scenes).
Oh, there's an octopus in one of them. And something that looked like VHS reel (but since VHS wasn't invented yet...) Fetishized, yes, porno, no. Just an uncomfortable mix of kink and some rolling about.
In the second half of the movie, some more events occur (this is, effectively, where the story kicks off). But, again, strange things keep happening without reason. One of them gets pregnant. I figured it was a pillow and it was all for show. No, she's pregnant. I have no idea how.
Then a happy ending was delivered for them. But one of the characters refused it. Even after abandoning her child to be with her.
In some scenes, there was so much missing, at times I could not tell what was happening. The reason why I am nitpicking about things like plot, that don't necessarily have to really matter, is because I was so unconvinced by the actual love story. And so much of made no sense.