I have to admit that I was impressed with the Director's ability to succeed in extract from the actors Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Watts such good interpretations being practically a beginner in cinematography's line of business. Clearing up: notice, if you will, in the scene (just in the beginning) where Jack (Mark) glances at his beloved Edith (Naomi) and the close-up (surely ordered by John Curran) conveys us all the tenderness he nourish for the supposed soul-mate... The film has implications that are almost imperceptible, for instance: if we are friends, if we teach in the same school, if we jog together, how it would be like if I were like you (Jack's fanciful believe), without caring for others people's feeling, putting MY SELF in the first place? And...If we like the same food, same beer, how it would be like if I loved your wife? Would this be the true motive for which reason Jack started his romance with Edith?... We are left with the doubt, since the story starts from the middle and we can not observe the beginning of the affair... It seems to me that Jack is obsessive with learning both sides of a tale!... To him, things are not always so clear; ever there lies a dark side he tries to deliver, always there is the sphinx's enigma: decipher me or I will devour you...(by the way: do you remember the scene in which at the classroom he utters the phrase: "perhaps (named the author) wanted simply to die"?... So much so that at the end of his "experience", with a part of Hank's personality indeliblely attached to his own, he decides to put an end to the romance: after all, Hank had an affair and despite loving the french woman, he broke it off, why can't I do the same? Why not put my feelings above all: I love my wife, love my kids, the rest comes later... In a scale of 1/10, I give it a 7 (very good).
Review of We Don't Live Here Anymore
