Directed by: Hans Canosa
Screenplay by: Gabrielle Zevin
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Aaron Eckhart
It's a very ordinary premise, two people who were once dating meet each other at a wedding after many years when both of them have significant others. But the way the premise is unfolded is interesting, they both start talking as strangers initially, and slowly we understand that they've known each other, and then we know that they've had a history. The film cuts back to vignettes of their younger selves, and we see how they have changed as people. I think it talks about the aspect of how when you meet a set of friends you had when you were young, you automatically become like the group just because you again talk the same language with them. I don't know if the same would happen with a relationship, because if it's one person, you don't have that social image that you have to live up to. You can be yourself and tell the other person that you've changed.
To me, one of the weirdest things people do is that, once they have an image created of them, they live up to it, even if they don't agree to that image. I don't know if this is self sabotaging tendency or something weird. If someone is called dumb 5 times in a group, that person instinctively starts being dumb the next time too, because he is the assigned dumb one. Well this film doesn't talk about all these things, but it definitely talks about revisiting your past self through meeting people in your life. Although I felt that the writing was a bit messy and too idiosyncratic, perhaps because of the headspace of the characters, but I never got a chance to root for them.
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