For all my love of Kevin Smith's films, The Pursuit of Amy remains something special, one that stands out with a genuine and bitter emotion. Maybe because it’s a very personal picture. Everything, of course, is flavored with typical quirks and a rough touch of fervent irony, but behind the mask of jokes and idleness, there was real sadness. The sadness of the unrealizable happiness that we ourselves have cultivated. For some reason, there are no winners in this field. Or rather, they are - after the fact. In retrospect, the colors of pain and disappointment pale. Looking far ahead, the wound does not bleed so much, but you do not envy those who live it directly. Sometimes it stretches to unthinkable limits. It seems that it is about to let go of living with the same passion, but the faded eyes of their reflection still look out of the mirror.
I always wondered why. She's cool and he's not a fool, couldn't he? They must have tried so hard they ruined everything. Trying to be someone, they didn’t notice how they stopped being to each other. It’s funny to see the features of both characters and empathize with them equally, even if he didn’t catch up with Amy. It always seemed that it was his fault that he simply could not love her as she was. Stupid, indomitable and so delightful. But looking at the other side, I can't blame anyone. The notorious is intended, but not destined. Ego, jealousy, stupidity, reproaches and resentments, uncontrollably fed by the beautiful and exciting, have done their dirty work. What a horrible feeling of despair at the point of no return. But life goes on, lessons are learned. And not to say that the story is unusual, but how painfully authentic it is in its subtle thrilling charm. But this sad scar can be seen under new clothes. Looking back, they saw the warm summer wind carry away the anticipation of a dream, frozen with amber in time of their piercing cosmic error.
Usually Kevin Smith-director does not give Kevin Smith-actor too much to talk in the frame, which logically gave rise to the odious figure of the silent Bob. However, this film stands alone in the career of a comic book lover who makes films about comic book lovers. The tone of the film is very serious this time. Putting, however, at the beginning of the film a trap in the form of a private for the heroes of Smith's previous films jokes about Darth Vader and Negroes (it's still funny!), the director threw a fog, gradually turning the film into a serious melodrama, on which jokes go somewhere to the third plane.
However, the peculiarity of this film is not that it is the most serious and as somewhere wrote that Smith was punched on existential thoughts. The film is actually a beautiful indicator that shows that all the director’s films shot in the universe of Klerk fools are serious. And his heroes, to take the same Clerks, were like clowns with knives of the mundane and grayness of this world, descended from the posters of the French theater of horrors gran-guignole. They laughed, talked about girls and comics, and they seemed completely out of reality. Smith took the camera and turned it 180 degrees, from Batman to Batman fan
Not for nothing is the key scene where the silent Bob and Jay, sit down with Ben Affleck (who was still young and just cool). They came to get paid for playing comic book characters. So letting the guys on the cover of the comic book made them significant. In the Clerks, they pushed drugs, already being characters watched by the viewer (ideally a future fan of Smith's work). And even when in the end they refuse to play, the main character will smile confusedly. Firstly, he already has a lot of personal problems (mostly love), and secondly, he understands that if the inseparable couple leave, they will disappear into thin air. They'll go off-screen for a smoke break. Choosing their own path, they disappear, as they have always been only actors, playing the roles of Jay and Bob.
Usually, Kevin Smith-director doesn't give Kevin Smith-actor too much talk in the shot. But this time it's different. Silent Bob opens the curtain of his mysterious past with a story about the eternal search for Amy, whom he once lost. At the end of the film, Affleck’s character will effectively translate Amy’s story into a comic book about his own love for his own Amy, thereby completely ringing the story, since she was already a comic in the author’s head from the very beginning.
Usually Kevin Smith-director makes a serious movie, but he perfectly understands the laws of comics and toilet humor here is very useful.
9 out of 10
In dreams of the girl whom he insulted and abandoned
This film made a very strong impression on me. In it, director and screenwriter Kevin Smith raises the hot topic of male perception of a sexually liberated woman, which is often unfair and destroys the strongest relationships. Why is this happening? What prejudices prevent a man from loving a woman created for him?
It is noteworthy that the director himself went through this with his mistress and actress Joey Lauren Adams, who brilliantly played the main character Alice. Apparently, therefore, the film seems to open the door to the mysterious world of alien psychology, causes a storm of emotions and completely changes the perception of relations between the sexes. The end is exactly what it should be, without sweetness and excessive positivity or tragedy. Life goes on despite the fact that someone made a fatal mistake.
The film is likely to be a godsend for feminists, who will see in it evidence that we are too early for equality, and a woman who behaves like a man is doomed to unhappy love and humiliation. And even leaving her sexual adventures behind, she will be forced to tell every new friend over and over again that she does not want this anymore, she needs pure love and understanding, not threesomes and promiscuity. And she might have to become a lesbian because she can't find sympathy among the opposite sex.
The end leads to sad thoughts. After all, a broken heart is a dead weight that burdens the soul for many years, and it is not as easy to get rid of as you would like.
The film's budget was small, but it only added a special atmosphere of spying on real life.
We all know Kevin Smith. A big geek and self-taught director who created one of the most amazing universes of cinema, View Askew. And while I love every movie that takes place in this universe, there's only one movie that I didn't like. This movie is "The Pursuit of Amy."
What's wrong with this movie? In fact, it is not a bad movie. His plot about the difficult love of an ordinary guy with a lesbian is very, very good. Watching this relationship evolve from friendship to love and its end was very interesting. In addition to the story, there are many positives. Good acting (particularly Joy Lauren Adams), funny references to previous films in the "View Askew" universe, and the cool appearance of Jay and Silent Bob. But that wasn’t enough to make me like the movie. I have 3 reasons for this:
Reason N1. Dialogue. Due to the fact that the center of the events is a character of non-traditional sexual orientation, there are dialogues devoted to sex by such a character. I wouldn’t mind such dialogue if it didn’t take up most of the film. And they do. And it gets boring very quickly. I understand the need for these dialogues, because without them it would be impossible to fully reveal the character of Joy Lauren Adams, but it was not worth paying too much attention to them.
Reason N2. Humor. Or rather, its complete absence. View Askew movies are full of humor. Even "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" with its slightly idiotic humor managed to amuse me quite well. And so I was very upset by his absence from this film.
Reason N3. Final. It's not that he's tragic. Kevin Smith did the right thing. Due to the fact that the hero of Ben Affleck could not reconcile with the turbulent past of his beloved and because of the negative attitude towards her subsequently, such a finale is the most correct. No, I criticize the approach to such a final. After all, Ben Affleck’s hero offered an incredibly idiotic solution to problems. Anyone would have guessed that it would not lead to anything good. I didn't. The solution to all problems lay on the surface. True, if he had used it, there would have been no tragic ending, but that doesn’t matter. So I just have one question. Couldn't we have taken a different approach to the final? More logical and less stupid.
To summarize, I want to say the following. The movie isn't bad. It has many positive aspects that allow you to watch it. But those 3 reasons make, for me personally, Chasing Amy the worst love melodrama I've ever seen and the worst movie in the View Askew universe.
Kevin Smith is first of all a master of absurd and somewhat stupid comedy, all of his beginnings in other genres were far from so successful. In the pursuit of Amy was no exception, despite the fact that she is formally included in the View Askewniverse, in spirit she is much closer to the drama about relationships than to comedy.
The main character really and sincerely falls in love with a girl with a very dubious reputation. Absolutely all the people around them set them against each other, but feelings, although not for long, outweigh common sense. But the past continues to throw up new unpleasant details.
I’m not sure what message Kevin Smith wanted to put into his film. Perhaps the fact that the past sooner or later will overtake you, and will do it at the most inopportune moment, or that not all actions can be forgiven as much as you do not want. I think someone else squeezed a happy ending out of this story, but Kevin Smith decided to end on an honest and realistic note.
But there is a very important problem with the tone of the dialogue and especially a lot of jokes on the verge of a foul are poorly combined with the plot of the tape. Individually, the plot and especially humor are good, but together they are clearly not comfortable.
6 out of 10
The porno-erotic parnasse swallowed us together with the pink pegasus, therefore neither songs nor poems are beautiful, one should not expect from us. Vladimir Asmolov.
It is difficult to say what motives the director Kevin Smith pursued while filming the film “Chasing Amy”, but in the process he oversold or oversalted, it is as much as anyone likes. In principle, the idea is not bad, to make a movie about two friends who draw comics and one of them falls in love with a girl. But then... The majority of the screen time is devoted to sex. Even when he is not present in the dialogues of the characters, you clearly feel the smell of fried in the air. And no wonder, because one of the friends of the main character, the little black “prankster” is gay. Alice Jones (Joe Lauren Adams) prefers to love girls rather than men. Of course, under this brand you can write off a lot, they say you did not find worthy and so on, only that the massaging lasts a very, very long time. And when she does find him, not her, in the person of the hero Ben Affleck, lies follow. Yes, the viewer definitely expects a knockout when he learns about Alice's past.
It is clear that the search and choice of a life partner is an actual and significant problem. But the thing that haunts me is the mishmash of the characters' orientation. You have, as they say, a whole set. You could make everything much thinner and more elegant, and the director decided to surprise everyone with his truth, which we know without him. If you want to look at a short black gay man and a pink beauty with its philosophy, then the movie may well like. Just remember that in this juice you will cook the whole movie.
But if the film is viewed from a edifying point of view, so to speak, the director showed broken and crippled fates, then this is a completely different angle. Here is the problem of upbringing with small nails and the desire for freedom and independence from the person of the same Alice and such a concept as male friendship in the context of the choice between her and love. There's a lot to talk about. The actors managed to convey their characters. Ben Affleck isn't bad, but I'd really give the first violin to Joey Lauren Adams. You can see that her heroine is a smart girl who ate the most poppies. A very strong scene when Holden (Ben Affleck) in the parking lot causes her a showdown, and Alice breaks the cry of the soul. I think it was in this scene that there was not a shadow of cunning, which I cannot say about the others. But the friend of our Holden Banks (Jason Lee) is shown to be quite mature and reasonable man, warning his friend and comic book companion from trouble and love squabbles. At one point, it seemed to me that the director provoked the viewer a little. This is when the main character Holden... I may be wrong, but someone might have the same opinion when Affleck’s character gathered a friend and friend for a family council, so to speak. And behind this whole thing, somehow you're putting out a thing called comics. Need them or not? But there are probably people who have devoted their lives to this occupation. As for me, I really didn't get it.
I do not want to act as a mouthpiece for the whole country, but I believed and continue to believe that the problem of gender relations, where one side is homosexual, is not very relevant for Russia. From one point of view, it can even be viewed as a patronizing view from across the ocean, saying, “Here you goofy, and we have a banality of traditional views on pairing.” The picture of Kevin Smith can be considered equally satirical ridicule of negligence of young people, who have too much in common, and quite serious drama, where not in vaudeville format shows the collapse of former ideals. The Pursuit of Amy is a film that influenced Ben Affleck and Jason Lee. Now they can be positioned as actors of several different levels, but they began a long way together, with the creation of teenage comics, where they overtook a completely undrawn test.
"Love will come unintentionally"
The fortress of friendship is not measured in kilograms, it is all about trust between people. Some people avoid saying the word “friend” altogether, believing that this status obliges too much. Comic book artists and bosom friends Holden and Banky try not to burden their heads with complex formulations. These guys just live and enjoy life. Everyone is confident and will always be so. As it turns out, not at all. Flying into their lives like a bright bolide, Alice Jones brings confusion to the established life rut of two friends. Common interests and a similar profession could have spawned a magnificent “triple alliance”, such a group of ambitious authors would have caused a rustle in the comics industry, but the arrow of Amor intervened. Holden realized that Alice was not just his friend, but for love was an impressive streak of obstacles.
The first obstacle is prejudice.
So, the wind-up lighter. Alice is a lesbian, and, relatively speaking, “extreme”. The temperamental girl is not only not ashamed of her status, but is always proud to tell about the facts of her “combat” biography. It's funny that Banky gets along with Alice first. What about Holden? A ridiculous beard and a bohemian profession are somewhat confusing, but we are not a simple person. Obviously, he's hard on people, it's with Banky they're friends from school, with others more difficult. What attracted him so much to his sloppy lesbian? Maybe his indomitable enthusiasm for life, the ability to always see the positive in everything. Let us recall Comrade Novoseltsev: “It is optimists who turn the globe.” After catching Alice's rhythmic wave, Holden took a different look at everything. He realized that Banky wasn’t that simple either, and that a funny black gay man was looking at the world with a much broader perspective. After all, what is easier: a passionate declaration of love destroyed the former world of Alice, take her now and forever! Miss Jones is not the most beautiful woman in New Jersey, and her manners are not for everyone to like, but she is infinitely far from prejudice, unlike the fervently loving her boyfriend.
The second barrier is the friend of childhood.
Very far from studying LGBT topics and what a stereotypical gay person should look like – I don’t know, but I hope not like Banky Edwards. A pleasant appearance, with a great sense of humor, ready to put your head behind a friend - much better? It's hard to say what Banky wants more - creative self-actualization or personal happiness. His irrepressible concern for Holden's peace of mind can indeed be interpreted in many ways. In friendship, as in love, everything is individual. But why did Banky set up this tumultuous activity with digging into Alice's past? Whatever it is, this initiative looks like banal jealousy and nothing else. Smith's film is famous for its endless dialogue. The verbal battles of two friends never give a definitive answer about the true nature of their relationship. Each viewer has the right to interpret this friendship in their own way, and I believe that a childhood friend has the right to cherish a long-term relationship. From the outside, everything seems simpler: today he loves, tomorrow he will stop loving, and a friend will always be! Jason Lee is a great character for his character. He almost does not allow shuffling from side to side. Do not forget about the joint business, because you always want to eat. Without memory, the lover Holden tends to see an envious in a close friend, but one should start with oneself.
The third obstacle is chaos in the head.
Still unable to see Ben Affleck in the next role and splashed his hands: “well, that’s right!” That's how it should be! A great actor, in my humble opinion, is always missing something. So at first with "The Pursuit of Amy." Eating the soul of Holden, the revealed facts of the biography of the beloved take away from the main thing - this guy contradicts himself. Alice has not deceived him anywhere. She grew up and opened her heart to something really big. Holden, on the other hand, gave an incredible explanation in his feelings – this film is justified by at least this scene. But then we have a completely different person. The nagging and resentment of the artist is an absolute absurdity and elementary disrespect for the one to whom he swore passionately in love just yesterday. The theme of homosexuality slowly but surely reverts to the background when a person gives way to overgrown memories of moss. I think there's a lot of empathy for Holden, but what is there to pay attention to? This, gentlemen, is not love. After all, Alice is not a girl for a long time, she may well have the past, she did not sit in a monastery cell waiting for a betrothed. The mediocre selfishness and the blatantly vile way out to resolve the situation, which Holden composed, deal the final blow to the personality of this man. Finally, Ben Affleck should applaud. His character caused a gamut of emotions and there is little positive in them - wasn't that the calculation?
For me, this is Kevin Smith’s first film. The first, but certainly not the last. The director's handwriting is present in every detail, whether it is the finely played hamstrings of two friends or the wittyly selected setting for a particular scene. What a lovely job these guys are doing! But in bright pictures, not cartoon characters come to life, but real fates, which are sometimes so easy to break! It doesn't matter how comedic "Chasing Amy" is. Much more valuable is the ease with which Smith, aka Silent Bob, creates images. Moreover, Kevin himself is far from being a saint, in his film, it seems that no one has a soul for a standard marriage between a man and a woman. But there is no funny-looking director platitude, vulgarity and trampling on the laws of life. Kids must one day go for a walk and become adults - the concise story about Amy, told by Bob, testifies to this. And someday the unlucky trio of artists will definitely understand this.
8 out of 10
Creativity ardent lover of comics Kevin Smith often causes criticism. His fans cannot be counted, but there are those who criticize him for bold statements, black humor, stupid characters and so on. I don’t want to do this, I have a contradictory opinion about this director, many of his works I like, for example, both parts of Clerks, well, there are frankly weak things like Jay and Silent Bob strike back. This is all a matter of taste.
Chasing Amy is Kevin Smith’s saddest, deepest, and ultimately best film, and I’ll explain why. This picture concludes the cycle of the Jersey Trilogy . All the characters are already well known to us from the previous parts of the trilogy, the plot is not too different, again two slacker friends who love comics. A big place in all of Smith's films is occupied by "male friendship", most often he shows two best friends who are always suffering from bullshit, discussing films, comics and girls. But the director always presents them frankly, without any falsehood, after all, everything is based on life situations, problems, misunderstandings - everything is as in real life. But behind all the quarrels and problems, there is something that we call true friendship. .
The plot of the film tells us about two friends, they draw comics. One of them meets a beautiful girl. She does comic books, too. One day, young people sitting in an institution began to talk about it and the girl admitted that she was a lesbian. An upset young man still decides to take care of her, they walk a lot and spend all their free time together. It seems that everything is getting better and the girl falls in love with him, when suddenly their happiness begins to interfere with the best friend of this guy, who begins to dig into the past of the girl. He tells his friend that she has slept with a lot of people, not only female but male. This is where problems begin, and perhaps a test for true love.
What I love about this film is that it touches on a completely uncharacteristic love story. The girl is lesbian, the guy is heterosexual. Their happiness interferes with everything, but perseverance and effort can save the situation. The hero of Ben Affleck had a craving for a woman, he fell in love with her and did not want to lose his happiness. His love changed her orientation, and she finally saw in the face of the other sex what she had been looking for. This couple in itself is very beautiful together, we see a lot of positivity, a lot of good emotions, everyone laughs and everyone has fun. But here comes the tipping point, what we talked about at the beginning, friendship. His best friend becomes jealous of this girl, like, "You're going to spend a lot of time with her, but what about me." He begins to dig into the dark past of the girl and finds a lot of things that can be used against her. He tells his friend how many love affairs she has had. Here is the main tragedy of the film - uncertainty. Uncertainty in feelings and choices. Our hero does not know what to do, can not compare all the pros and cons. His biggest mistake is to analyze the situation. Love should not be understood, it should be accepted, what the heart lies for, and if you weigh for or against, analyze the situation, do as others tell you, then in the end you will not see happiness. And in the end, our hero does absolutely wrong, offers to do them all together group sex. Why this is, it's not clear. He did not pass the test of feelings, although he did everything right in the beginning, and this is the truth of life, because so many people lose their love every day.
Kevin Smith made his saddest movie, for me, Chasing Amy is a drama, I couldn’t take it as a comedy. There are practically no jokes here, only if at the very beginning, so anyone who thinks that this is a picture like "Clerks" or "Dogmas" I would tell you to think, if you want a comedy, then you are not at the right place. From the point of view of directing, Smith shoots in his usual manner, there are no innovations. The characters are the same, I can only note the stunning monologue of Silent Bob, who immediately hit the soul, by and large the name of the film follows from his story. The cast was very pleased. Still beginning Ben Affleck in the title role, looks a little pathetic, but overall quite confident, this role paved the way for him to a serious project and we can say made his name. I really liked Joy Lauren Adams, something hooked me in her, there is something attractive in her, you can understand the hero of Affleck, you can run for such a girl.
In Pursuit of Amy I recommend to those who want to see a strong melodrama, with a good plot and a bold idea. There is no such film so far, at least I have not seen it (meaning the attitude of people with non-traditional orientation and traditional). A lot of feelings are caused by this love story and even some residue remains after watching. Sad, very sad.
No, not “Clerks” and not “Showboys from the supermarket”, namely “Chasing Amy” was the film that showed that this good-natured fat man named Kevin Smith will stay with us for a long time, because it cursed – the same, adult and directorial, that in the past films of the director, for all their merits, you will not find. Extremely funny, but still, the interplay turned into episodic fun, and human feelings obviously grew out of the teenage stage, not losing in any way in their complexity and complexity, and even gaining - thanks to active participation in the picture of the topic of homosexuality and heterosexuality. Did it get worse? By no means, because now I am not ashamed before my own mother, and I showed everyone around me, saying, this is how I can, and I did not change myself, because did I sign up to shoot only youth comedies with jokes and jokes of varying degrees of greasiness?
"The Pursuit of Amy" was the first of Smith's many reincarnations as a director, each of which he left with his head, managing to remain himself. It’s not so much about the conversations about fisting or the mystical “snoochi butchi” from the mouth of Jason Mewes. Smith’s heroes are still the same people, Chasing Amy is a movie about your friends, acquaintances and that guy across the street. At the same time, they are not static in their existence, they change like everything else. And so, these most familiar people, with whom you just yesterday lightheartedly giggled at the joke about dicks, change before your eyes and become more serious and thoughtful, and friends say serious and deep things about love that you never planned to hear from them. Growing up is not yet the same as in the second "Clerks", not irrevocable, but already such that you can safely talk about it. Feelings are becoming more serious, occupying much more space in life, and affecting it more than before; at the same time, their depth is already enough to leave scars for life. It’s not bad or good – it’s just there, everything becomes more real, everything changes, you just have time to notice.
By and large, in the context of Kevin Smith’s early career, the question of whether the viewer liked “The Pursuit of Amy” could be put with the only possible edge: “And did the viewer go the same way as the director and all his characters, did he not stay in place?” Nearly twenty years after the painting was released, the answer is clear – understood, accepted, loved – which means the answer is yes. In light of this, Chasing Amy is much more than just an interesting film about love and how it happens, with an original plot, humor and other tricks. This is a mirror of how, by and large, a whole generation of people went through the stage of emotional maturation, while, in its essence, managing to retain everything that is most important, managing to remain what they were before - real, sincere guys, without any hint of pretentiousness and falsehood.
The final film from the "Jersey Trilogy" (the same includes "Clerks" and "Supermarket Partymen") from the director, screenwriter and actor Kevin Smith (who doesn't know - this is the Silent Bob).
Kevin Smith tells the story of how the creator of the comics falls in love with one girl who turned out to be a lesbian, but after insistent courtship, she goes to a “heterosexual camp” and also falls in love. But their relationship is upset by the protagonist’s friend and co-author of his comics, who pulls out an unpleasant story about the girl’s sexual experience in the past. This moment brings a break in the relationship in love, and then the guy makes one stupid mistake after another and they break up.
Kevin Smith broke the whole story into two main parts. The first, it is the starting point, built in a somewhat comedic vein, a funny scene at a lecture on the history of comics, unbridled dialogues about sex, in general, did not give anything in this subsequent romantic melodrama (transitional link), lasting only something nothing, but it was nice to watch the candy-bucket period of meetings. And then comes the second main part – drama. I still do not understand the action of the friend of the main character, what did he so achieve? Jealous of a friend's friendship? Why go looking for someone else's laundry? To protect a friend from a possible mistake?
This friend is played by Jason Lee. When everything went in a comedic way, their tandem of Ben Effleck and Jason Lee seemed strong, cohesive, they understood each other half-word. But there is a girl who has both beauty and cheerful disposition (Joe Lauren Adams), so it’s nice to watch her and for Effleck, and then... And what was better to watch you yourself, but I wanted to say “Respect, man!” to the hero of Ben Effleck for being able to achieve reciprocity from his beloved girl, although it was very difficult to do, but then he behaved like a last moron.
Such violent emotions can cause such a reason as the play of actors. First, I want to say to Kevin Smith that he gave the main role to Ben Effleck, as a result of which his acting talent was revealed, in this film more as dramatic, but how many feelings his eyes expressed: contradictory, mixed, filled with pain, but it was a storm. Joey Lauren Adams, in my opinion, also played at a very high level, she was upset, but in the final you can see that she is unhappy, but endures because she is used to being strong. It is a pity that she did not become a famous actress, apparently, the roles she got were wrong. Jason Lee His character caused anger, but you also have to be able to play, so he showed great. Before the end will appear Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, the story and thoughts of the latter is worth listening to.
"The Pursuit of Amy" is such a reflection of the utopia, when after the mistakes made, you can no longer return the old relationship, but I think it should be added that no one said that they should not be corrected. In general, the film gave food for the mind, and the actors and director worked closely and expediently on this.
Stunning speech of the hero Affleck during a declaration of love. It is clear that everything is thought out, recorded and memorized in advance, but it sounds very cool. By the way, the heroine’s answer to the monologue is no worse, exact words. And in general, all the words about true love in the film are very good and true. (Of course, this is not about sex.)
Heroes cause both interest, respect, bewilderment, and disappointment. That is, the whole range of feelings that you want to feel in films about love.
Cons. At the very end, the main character makes such a decision, from which the whole charm of experiencing what he saw quickly disappears. To put it mildly, this is an unconventional solution.
Despite the fact that the heroine is an inveterate depraved whore, her reasoning and behavior in the film look the most reasonable and convincing. On the contrary, the guys are up to their ears in shit, their behavior is surprising. But it didn't turn out to be a straight-forward, sweet melodrama.
Affleck is a half-movie with a half-open mouth. Of course, the role is such, it should have looked “sexier”, but he looked more like a moron.
Special. A characteristic feature of the work of Kevin Smith is the persistent propaganda of all kinds of debauchery and promiscuous sexual relations. For some reason, all his characters are not capable of a serious relationship with a mandatory subsequent marriage, which, of course, is a consequence of the author’s fixation on the so-called “free love”. His characters, although they sometimes intend to marry, never get to it, and someone’s marriage (for example, the parents of the characters) is always presented as a negative role model. It is clear that this is also one of the logical consequences of “free relations”. Smith's films are positioned as youthful, and, of course, have a bad effect on the subconscious of viewers. I wouldn’t want my kids to see his movies, at least not until they start their own families.
By the way, it's also a very characteristic detail. In Smith’s films, the main characters learn something about their lovers that causes them a persistent dislike, up to the intention to immediately part. But little by little they have to come to terms with the thought of it and continue to live on, as if coming to terms with the inevitability of what has already happened. In general, the logic of life is built in such a way that you can not change what has already happened, but the moral choice of the heroes of Smith’s films in such an “artistic” form suggests to the audience: put up with general debauchery, be the same cattle as these on the screen, participate in the multiplication of vice; take a closer look, because they are cool guys and they live in this way, so you can also live as cool guys.
As they say, what is good for an American is death for a Russian. Let them burn in hell with all their depravity!!
Conclusion. Despite the plot, which is based on special deviations in the sexual life of the main character, the film to a certain point is very romantic. It's about experiencing real love feelings, doubts, jealousy and difficult decisions. It’s a good movie because there’s a lot to think about.
The film begins with a young artist (though I would say a comic book drawer is not an artist) falling in love with a girl named Alice Jones, aka Amy, who is a lesbian and doesn't date men. Holden (also an artist) and Alice become friends, but Holden does not get enough and opens his feelings to the girl. They start dating and everything seems good. But Holden's friend Banky doesn't like Alice, he thinks she's not the right couple for Holden. He begins to dig under her and it turns out that Alice wasn't always a lesbian. This is where the problems begin.
Now my opinion is very negative. I'll start with the actors: Joey Lauren Adams - terribly disliked, firstly, her role is nasty, secondly, she often almost screams, she has a thin voice and when she screams it just cuts the ear. I haven’t seen her in other roles, maybe she’s better, but after this role, it’s not a good impression.
Ben Affleck – I’ll be honest with you, he’s my favorite actor in Hollywood. In my opinion, he is the same everywhere, I do not see emotions in him, although his role is very emotional.
The only one who seems to be happy with the pair is Jason Lee. And I wouldn't say that his hero out of envy told his friend the truth about his girlfriend. I wouldn't want my friend to date someone like that either. Telling them how is the right decision. Let him decide for himself.
I am “loved” by the dialogue between Holden and Alice when she tells him the truth about the threesome and her further sexual adventures. She says she wanted to try everything and has no regrets. Her whole monologue caused me a storm of negative emotions. I was disgusted... I understand that everyone has the right to their sex life, but this is how to make it public and proud of it. I only have one word for her.
I know many people will disagree with me, but everyone is entitled to their own opinions. That's my opinion.