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The Last Kiss, a film by Tony Goldwyn (Yes son of Samuel Goldwyn) was
adapted from the 2001 Italian film L'Ultimo bacio, and written for the
screen by none other than Paul Haggis. The Last Kiss goes through a
number of relationships, spanning a number of different ages, and
dissects the hardships of those relationships. Zach Braff seems to have
upgraded his acting from Garden State and might actually become a more
dexterous and talented actor than previously perceived. Paul Haggis'
wonderful dialog lends greatly to the reality and adversity that
co-exist alluringly within this screenplay. This film has been
incorrectly advertised as a romantic comedy that puts Braff in the
middle of two girls, and he cannot decide which one he wants to
continue his life with. This is simply not true. The film is about a
group of people that have just seen what the rest of their lives are
going to be like, and want to add a small bump in the road of life.
Overall the film does a lot more than your average romantic
comedy/buddy film, and shoves the afflictions and austerities of
modern-day relationships in your face. This is not the greatest of date
movies, like the trailer wants us to believe, and should be perceived
as a more earnest and pensive film than it appears..

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I thought it was okay at best.

Now, clearly, as the title and brief synopsis suggest, the first
impressions of this film through text make it sound like some
'smultchzy', weepy, emotional film aimed at women and sensitive males
in which people love, have problems, love again and thus; happy ending.
But this simply is not the case with this film, with such
pre-conceptions it becomes easy for expectations to be exceeded rather
soon. Initially this film seems like nothing special, we have some
rapidly established characters, yet with minimal connection to the
audience. This is fine, and you'd expect this to develop throughout the
film; but it seems as if this doesn't develop quickly enough. After
being briefly introduced to our characters and the central plot, we are
at a wedding, and it is here where 'Michael' meets 'Kim'. The immediate
chemistry between Braff and Bilson seemed to be not that disparate to
the chemistry displayed between Braff and Natalie Portman in the highly
acclaimed film 'Garden State', this is slightly disappointing, but only
to those who have seen the film in question. This chemistry, however,
successfully veers off into something more unique and intriguing as the
film goes on. Also, in its opening scenes, there is nothing that shouts
"I am great!" There are few nice shots and it's generally aesthetically
ordinary. Much of the acting is fairly quotidian with the exception of
a handful of cast members, and the script promptly seems quite plain
with some nice bits of dialogue here and there. Yet with all these
obvious flaws outlined very early on, there is still something quite
captivating about this film, and at first thought, it's hard to
pin-point exactly what it is.

As mentioned, there is much to be desired of the acting; all the cast
performed their roles very well, but there always felt like there was
something missing in their performance. In particular, Rachel Bilson
('The O.C.'), who seems somewhat unconvincing at times. Braff gives a
fantastic performance however, especially in some heavy scenes nearer
the end of the film where he irrevocably portrays his emotions and
facial expressions. Casey Affleck is quite surprising too, having not
seen him in anything before myself, I expected him to be on par with
his brother Ben Affleck in terms of acting ability. Casey is convincing
in his role, he doesn't quite surmount his brother, but he definitely
shows some promise, (despite his peculiarly effeminate voice.)

One of the films underlying themes is how we treat our dreams and
aspirations, as well as how we deal with the common dilemmas of modern
day civilisation. It makes a point of arguing what is worth fighting
for and why, as well as displaying the options of running away. You
don't necessarily learn from these points, but for certain people it's
not impossible to assume that it could put some viewers' individual
real-life problems into some form of perspective in terms of how
they're dealing with them. This is a great aspect, be it intentional or
fluke. Though despite this, some character actions and behavioural
traits don't seem to make complete sense. For example, 'Kim' knows that
'Michael' is in a committed relationship, yet she tries to seduce him
anyway, and personally I can't comprehend why you would try to aide and
incur the self sabotage of someone's relationship for personal gain.
This made 'Kim' a mystery, and gives a very ambivalent feeling towards
her, being that you enjoy aspects of her character, yet at the same
time dislike her actions.

This goes for most characters though; there is a great deal of
ambivalence and even contempt for a lot of the cast, and in the films
early moments it's hard to see why. As the film goes on, or more
specifically, near the end, you realise something about the characters,
and the artistic intentions with the characters involved. Throughout
the film the contempt and ambivalence for the characters is consistent,
assumedly this would be a bad thing, but this is in fact not a mistake.
The only reason this is felt is because the mind expects to have a
specified emotional attachment towards each of the characters dictated
to it by the film. But this is one of those surprising elements; the
film does not care whether you like the characters or not, it has a
complete disregard for your personal feelings on how you wish the
events to turn out as well as how you desire the characters to behave.
The film basically says "Here is a story for you, but I don't care if
you like it or not", the reason for this, is because every single
character, good performance or not, is just incredibly human. Every
character has a certain level of good qualities as well as a great deal
of flaws, none of the characters are perfect, and none of them claim to
be. This realisation makes any discontentment towards the characters
vanish.

In this instance, the film fantastically avoids being predictable, as
well as being some kind of 'feel good' escapist film to enjoy every
once in a while on a weekend afternoon. The film convincingly tells a
story of human life, and common modern social behaviour in adulthood.
This overall makes for a very surprising film, and at the end you're
left feeling very satisfied, and the feeling that you greatly enjoyed
the movie. Even though the acting and cinematography leave much to the
imagination at times, the films avoidance of escapism and its
unpredictability just make this film rather unique and highly
enjoyable. It may require you stick with it however, but either way, 8
out of 10 for originality!.