It's pretty raw for my taste. Mark Ruffalo plays a disaster of human being destroying himself and pissing off everyone around him. Per the story he's been at it for 5 years and when he's hit absolute rock bottom he happens to hear Keira Knightley timidly play one of her songs at a dive bar. He's smitten as he believes he's found his next great musician. Not a pop star, mind you, but a great musician.
Anyways, I found the film very difficult to watch for the first 30 minutes as he is such a train wreck of human being. And you can pretty much see most things coming as the film plays with time to bring all the characters up to a specific point. K. Knightley's Greta has been dumped by her destined to be super-star boyfriend (amusingly play by Adam Levine) and goes along with Ruffalo's dream that she is destined to be a success. Various uncomfortable scene follow as the predicable story continues.
This is not my kind of film. I just don't get into realistic portrayals of misery, but I guess others do as this seems to be popular with most commentators.
I would recommend watching something with more joy in it, although it probably won't have such a stellar cast as this film.
Anyways, I found the film very difficult to watch for the first 30 minutes as he is such a train wreck of human being. And you can pretty much see most things coming as the film plays with time to bring all the characters up to a specific point. K. Knightley's Greta has been dumped by her destined to be super-star boyfriend (amusingly play by Adam Levine) and goes along with Ruffalo's dream that she is destined to be a success. Various uncomfortable scene follow as the predicable story continues.
This is not my kind of film. I just don't get into realistic portrayals of misery, but I guess others do as this seems to be popular with most commentators.
I would recommend watching something with more joy in it, although it probably won't have such a stellar cast as this film.
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