On cheating A film on the theme of a rather age-old and always relevant problem of infidelity and loyalty, with Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington and Eva Mendes. A married couple, passing the battles of trust in family life and certain thresholds of jealousy, is forced to separate for just one day: he leaves with his assistant on a business trip, and at this time an ex-boyfriend from Paris rolls up to her! Whether both end up cheating will be a major question, among many others. What will overpower, reason or passion? Who will behave in such a situation? Will anyone resist the temptation? A very feminist response will show this movie.
In a modest framework, capable of very frank and intimate topics, not putting forward something beyond the new and not claiming absolute truth, we are shown one of the options for the outcome of such a coincidence of circumstances. It doesn’t have to be the only one, otherwise the film can cause even more ambiguous reactions, but such a system of behavior is quite the case. Unfortunately.
While Knightley is doing his best, giving out one of the best performances of his career, the unfortunate Worthington prowls through the screen space of the scenes in search of chthonic monsters and blue-skinned aliens, and he is forced to forever talk to someone until finally his rage breaks free. Those or other forms and types of various temptations, temptations, although it does not display a perfectly saturated bouquet of such content, but it is very interesting, both in the form of its presentation and script ideas, because it is thanks to multiple situations and scenes that the central problems raised in the plot are perfectly revealed, and the cinema itself looks with interest. You can even bet if anyone will seduce someone, and if so, what exactly.
Such a curious totalizer, the action runs from a couple to a couple, in a fairly correct ratio alternating the two central plots. “All men are their own...” is the main motif of the film, forcing girls to be more attentive to their boyfriends, not to let go of themselves for a long time and never give rise to cheating and jealousy.
The film may not be too correct when mentally transferring such a situation to all couples and families, but it is quite instructive, colorful, with excellent strong emotions and a small amount of eroticism. Knightley and Kane are several times more interesting to watch than Mendes and Worthington, besides, the first couple everything is much more dynamic and interesting, like the characters themselves. We learn about their early relationships, about the lives of everyone, they are revealed in creativity and talents, if possible demonstrate a rich inner world and open their heart to the viewer. While a traveling couple monotonously tries to bring their entire line to the denouement of the film, breaking regularly, but relentlessly advancing time after time. But with such a casting and their storyline will definitely pay attention to fans and fans of creativity. So it turned out to be a very decent movie with extremely controversial motives.
8 out of 10
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