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Beautifully well done. This movie takes you into lives of a bunch of loosely connect people and families just like love actually. This movie is not about love though. Requiem shows you the misfortunes that can go along with drugs in a very intense and beautiful way. This movie is not about drugs though.

This movie delivers a message about the social part of the internet being just as evil to society as drugs can be. It does so in the intense way of Requiem with also the story telling of Love Actually. OK, it's not as intense as Requiem but it gets there. There is a scene near the end where you will freeze in awe of everything that's going on in the movie. It's not a happy movie but it will make you feel and even might make you second guess participating in the social online era that is upon us.

Not a terrible documentary as some say and not a documentary based solely on facts. There are facts presented in the documentary which makes it worth looking at a little. D'Souza also puts in things like an interview with a guy that says people voted for Obama because they didn't want to appear racists. That is not a fact. So when you see and hear people say this film is based on facts take it with a grain of salt. Again there are facts in the movie but not everything stated is fact. Not every statement made is based on fact either. There are holes just like any documentary film. The goal of most recent documentaries is to persuade. I believe it should just be to inform. This documentary tries to persuade and inform.

As D'Souza sometimes points out in interviews about the documentary these thoughts are just his theory. That line of his theory and truth is thin in the documentary. If D'Souza really wanted to just present a theory it wouldn't be as bias towards disliking Obama. It would just say Obama seems to be anti-colonialism and present why it is that way. The documentary fails to do so unfortunately without at least a little bias. Some statements made in the documentary are outside of the agenda of showing us that Obama is anti-colonialism. That is why I say it's at least a little bias. After the documentary I do believe Obama is anti-colonialism. Whether or not that is a bad things is up to the viewer of course. The documentary (which is why it is bias) believes that is a negative thing based on my viewing of it.

If you dislike Obama you probably will like it. If you like Obama you probably will have problems with it. Either way you will be a little more informed afterwords which is almost always a good thing.

This movie needed to be better. I hadn't read the book but I heard it was a very epic subject matter. It needed to be more meaningful though. Some of the quotes could have been done way better. "And I shamble after . . ." should have made me want to cry but it didn't. I got more emotion out of trailer than from that quote that it randomly put in the movie it seemed.

The main actors did fine. Kristen didn't stand out as bad or anything. None of them did amazing though. I feel like later down the line this whole movie could have done better. Maybe some one better to play Dean will come along? Don't get me wrong it wasn't terrible. It just could have been better. You'll know what I mean if you've the read book and then watch the movie I bet.

I want to say it's like a worse Garden State. If you haven't seen Garden State sorry I made that comparison but in my belief those two movies are similar in plot. Guy is at a turning point in his life and girl snaps him out of it. Elizabethtown is worse because Orlando Bloom's lines/acting leave you wishing the movie would cast someone else in his place. Kristen Dunst does a decent job though playing the girl that snaps Bloom out of thinking linearly, but Natalie Portman in Garden State was much better. Also the music is good with a few Tom Petty songs but the songs didn't "move" me as Garden State songs had. Also there is a scene where Dunst and Bloom are talking on the phone all night which I think was well done even though Bloom's lines got in the way a few times. If you liked Elizabethtown go see Garden State. If you liked Garden State and want more Garden State like movie, watch Elizabethtown. If you've watched neither then go see Garden State and refer back to my comment for what to do next.

This "movie" is how unreal reality shows can be I guess. It supposedly takes you through three post-relationships. But it doesn't really make it that far into all three. It mainly focuses on how two people out of two couples meet. But the "producers" or whoever throws in people to move the story along which I didn't like. The whole idea of a "movie" is to make it seem real and draw me into the characters in my belief. And I was drawn in until they introduced the idea that the whole documentary could be unreal. I'm looking for a happy ending at the end and I don't know if the ending is real or not, which I guess the makers wanted but I didn't like the feeling of it. I liked Jack's line about music being related to a drug addiction because that seemed real, but it's "tainted" by the fact that it all could have been scripted. It's an alright movie if you dislike reality shows I would say.