- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Version:
- needed to precede following dl
- Languages:
- Length:
- 84 minutes (Uncut)
- Review Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2014
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
- Single woman mistaken for a stranger’s blind date, leads to her finding the perfect boyfriend.
- Themes:
- Advertising | Alienation | Courage | Curative | Emotional repression | Erotophobia | Gynophobia | Identity | Individualism | Loneliness | Loyalty | Materialism | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Personal change | Political | Political Correctness | Propaganda | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Sex | Sexism | Sexual Repression | Solipsism | Stereotyping | Western world | White culture | White people
- Similar to:
- Unknown
Although hopelessly contrived and superficial, this is an excellent example of why Whites have the highest divorce rates: They conflate the Personal with the Political.
Here, the characters relate to each other only as members of each other’s gender - not as individuals. This induces the fear of not being accepted by the entire gender group by which they judge each other, rather than simply being accepted as an individual by another individual. By taking Politics to bed, in this way, Whites ensure - right from the start - the failure of the Personal relationships they ostensibly seek.
Despite the lack of insight into the moral and political predicament established by the screenplay, Lake BELL & Simon PEGG complement each other well; being engaging enough to allow us to overlook the essential shallowness of the entire enterprise and the superficiality of their characters - as written.
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