I think this is a story that a lot of bright, intelligent women can identity with, but beyond that I thought the storyline had a great textural feel and the character development was pretty good. I would have liked to have seen a little more delving into the characters' backgrounds - there is a brief hint as to Jack's (Adrien Brody's character) background and the reason he is the way he is, but the others are left purely to your imagination. So, lacking this, I think the main question one would ask would be what brings a woman like Claire - intelligent, beautiful and sophisticated with a promising future ahead of her - to dive to the depths that she did in this story?
Once again, Brody's bad-boy persona comes through with such saturation you
would think this is the way he grew up in real life...wink-wink. On the down side, I really didn't care for the music in the film, especially since there were many parts in which it drowned out the actors speaking. There are no subtitle or caption options on the DVD, so one can't even read what the actors are supposed to be saying.
Once again, Brody's bad-boy persona comes through with such saturation you
would think this is the way he grew up in real life...wink-wink. On the down side, I really didn't care for the music in the film, especially since there were many parts in which it drowned out the actors speaking. There are no subtitle or caption options on the DVD, so one can't even read what the actors are supposed to be saying.