Lovable (2007) User Reviews

Beautifully Introspective

[Dynamo_x5 · 8/10 · 29 March 2011]

This movie shows the introspection of many different women and the author about their extended periods of being single.

You learn about all their feelings, their views, their romantic adventures over the years. How their disappointment and heartbreak have affected them.

It was a little sad to see these women and this man longing for love so late in their life, some of them even being on a long drought in-between serious relationships.

In my opinion though it was a kind of beautiful sadness, because it showed me that on the surface many people may act kind, happy, and content with their lives, but underneath the everyday persona, and all the barriers and walls they put up most women really just want to be loved. I know that sounds cliché, but these interviews are proof.

I can also see the social pressure from society, friends and family to be married and have a family or there must be "something wrong" with you come out in this as well.

The author says something like "this movie should be shown in high school so that people will know that falling-in-love happily-ever-after isn't inevitable." With the 60% divorce rate these days, I agree. Maybe some young people will make more effort develop better dating skills or work harder keep their relationships together after watching this. Both of which I think are perfectly fine goals.

Best of all, seeing all the lonely women out there longing for love showed me that there is lots of opportunity for nice, responsible, hardworking, guys to find love. It's never too late.

I don't want to be in the sequel

[edlewisjr · 6/10 · 25 June 2007]

The movie is a collection of interviews of women who are single at later stages of life. The interviews are intertwined with the filmmaker's own thoughts on his extended bachelorhood.

The movie has little fanfare, it lets the emotion come pouring out. Not in a bloodletting way, more of "let's look at this rationally" way. The style and tone of the movie really lets the depth of the concerns of single-too-long people really come to the forefront.

The movie feels long. At first it seemed funny - like that silliness one gets when they realize they are about to be emotionally exposed - but then the humor was overcome by the length. At 101 minutes, it isn't long by many standards. The tempo isn't tedious. It just seems long and endless.

But this is for good effect. It emphasizes the burden these people feel and the pointless emptiness of being alone. It's not like they are suffering a disease and the race is one for a cure, it's not like there is redemption for the missteps that led them to their state.

The most curious element of the film is that the filmmaker is always in a mirror because he's always behind the camera. There seems to be some kind of commentary there, nevertheless it seems like there's a wall between he and all of his female interviewees. (There isn't a lot of dialog in the movie - it's nearly all monologues.)

It's a documentary, not a drama. It is plain but not "raw." It states the obvious, there isn't a discovery. It's certainly not a first date movie, it isn't something you want to watch after a breakup.

I hope I don't wind up in a sequel but there's a woman or two in my past I'd nominate for a role in it. ;)