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I'll tell you why so serious

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

I found nothing fundamentally wrong with this picture. Is it slightly predictable? Yes, but breathtaking twists are not always necessary for a film to be good. And I did not feel insulted by the subtle hints that were carefully dispersed to lead us up to what was coming in the end. The acting was PHENOMENAL, the interior design a treat to the eye, the camera... the directing... the dialogues... What am I missing here? Why does "Iron Man: Civil War" warrant 7.5, but "Third Person" no more than 4 out of 10?

This movie had Paul Haggis' fingerprints all over places but not in the good ways. Paul just extended or limited his creativity around his signature paralleling various story lines then weaving into a monstrosity of who knew what. His Oscar winning film Crash by far is his best of this type of movies as a director. He is a better screen writer than director in my opinion.His talent was the reason to draw those A-list actors and actresses to this movie. However, he lost the focus of the main topic which I am not sure it's about love any more. He applied coincidences way too often to make the whole film congregated naturally. I wish he would not have tried so hard. And the part of revealing Olivia Wilde's character's incest relationship with her father was probably the most appalling and over the top in the entire story. I do not object to use hard subjects in films if only if they would serve the right purpose. This one was out of place except serving as a shocking element. Anyway, I wish to see Haggis' films other than this type in the future. I hope he could extend his writing skill to his directing field.

Like a poem which can be read over and over and have new meanings each time, this film can be interpreted depending on the viewer, which makes it more interesting than your run-of-the-mill film.Basically, Liam Neeson's character Michael is trying to write another successful novel but is tormented by the drowning death of his young son. He is having marital difficulties with his wife Elaine (Kim Basinger) due to the death of his son and his affair with Anna (Olivia Wilde). The only real main characters in the story are Michael, Elaine and Anna. The other main characters are not real. Keep all this in mind.Michael, near the end, is revealed as the cause of his son's drowning because he took a phone call from his mistress Anna and was not watching his son in the pool. His guilt from this is overwhelming and so he creates in his mind, as he writes a novel, two separate stories to help relieve the guilt. He has gone to Paris (or Rome if you make it to the end) to write and be alone to think. One story (his) is real but two are not. The two imaginary stories involve the characters inability to be with their child although the child is still alive in both (one is questionable as they never show the actual child, or do they?). So Michael is making up stories as to why a parent cant get to their child just as he can no longer do.In a sense Michael is making up alternate realities for why his child is missing from his life or trying to justify a scenario where the child is missing but found alive. What the stories are you will have to watch to find out. But why the stories exist is more important. There is one story in Rome between Scott (Adrien Brody) and Monika (Moran Atias). There is another in NYC with Julia (Mila Kunis) and Rick (James Franco) and there is the main story in Paris with Michael (Liam Neeson), Anna (Olivia Wilde) and Elaine (Kim Basinger), who is not in Paris but part of the Paris story.The three stories are woven in an interconnected way. A character from each of the stories connects to a character in the other stories. The one confusing part was when they kept showing Julia (Mila Kunis) cleaning hotel rooms in what appeared to be the Paris hotel of Liam Neeson yet Julia (Mila Kunis) was clearly living in NYC and dealing with ex-husband Rick (James Franco) in a child custody case. Even the cities were getting mixed in the head of Michael (Liam Neeson) the writer.I am not sure if the three stories appear in the book that Michael (Liam Neeson) finishes at the end of the movie. One reviewer suggested that they were all characters that were erased from the finished novel but I am not so sure as they may have been the book itself. In the movie the characters disappear near the end but to me that may mean the saga has simply ended for those characters. It is open to interpretation. You will notice at the end that Michael's wife has the completed novel (in draft form). It appears that the completed novel was what Michael needed to get over his son's death. There is a twist. Michael's mistress Anna (Olivia Wilde) is revealed to be sleeping with her dad earlier in the film,and Michael has put this in his finished novel. He seems willing to destroy his affair with her in order to end his guilt of her being the one who called him and distracted him while his son died. Everything in the film is meant to help Michael get over his guilt. There is a connecting phrase "watch me" which appears in the film and you will need to listen for.This is probably a way more brilliant film than the average reviewer has indicated. The acting is really good and it keeps your interest as you try to figure it out. It was complex to write I am sure and an experiment in boldness and modern film making.

This is the first time that I write a review. Although i've seen many (and in my opinion many good) movies I didn't felt compelled to write a review until now.This is film is truly a gem. So real, so .... like a gem. Watch it. It will truly worth your time. I do not have other words to say, you just have to watch it for yourself.I do not want to give any spoilers but this is something that should be on everyone's watching list. This is something that you meet once in a life time.Honestly, there is not much that can be told about this movie without spoiling it, so just WATCH IT!!!