I am going to be brutally honest when I say that I relate to this movie.
'Alexandria' is a movie that teaches an ignorant person how to look deeper into their inner self and find that wounds from the past will always re-surface to seek for confrontation. And also, that when you love someone, you have to be fair and honest to them. But hey... enough about the moral(s) of the movie.
The sceneries and settings, shot in 3 different countries, were absolutely divine. My desire to travel Europe has been heightened further by this movie. The characters were all beautiful although I knew none of them and was quite confused because different languages were used in one movie. The character of Albert is usually someone I would see as the 'jackass' because he was not fair to the only woman he ever fell for, which was Elena. However, I fell in-love with him because he tells the truth and told it till the end when he leaves Elena because he 'hasn't overcome his fears.' Elena, I thought, would be the righteous one at the start of the movie mainly because she was the woman and she was mistreated and hurt many times, emotionally. But I soon realized that she is selfish, insecure, jealous, and a liar. She convinced her daughter at the beginning that her affair with Albert was short. And when Nina, Elena's daughter finds out that she lied, she tells another story, one in which her affair with Albert lasted for about two years but he ended up cheating on her. And in Nina's final confrontation, Elena rediscovered the mistakes that in fact SHE made... seeing Albert's ship take off and not reaching it in time opens her eyes to the truth that she doesn't want him to go. So she tries to sail on her bike (yep, you got that right) and almost drowns. And with her bike buried underneath the sand on the bottom of the sea, she buries with it her pain of loss and her failings.
This movie is an eye-opener to those people who try to insist that they are always right when they're in a relationship. Both Elena and Albert shed mistakes and both realize this, although not at the same time as it took Elena decades to acknowledge what her share of wrongdoings were.
It is a good movie and I recommend it to those who are in the mood for immediately changing moods. You will be quite surprised on how often you will shake your head in disappointment but at the same time, nod your head in agreement (because what's happening is just so damn true), smile AND cry - and that is, all at once.
This movie doesn't have a happy ending but the writers succeeded in delivering the purpose and the message of 'Alexandria'.
