If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Now,knowing me,I don't review romances but I felt like I had to review this,6 Years. 6 Years stars Taissa Farmiga,from American Horror Story and the upcoming horror spin off,The Nun. The film is about a couple who after a few incidents,go down a dark path in there relationship which might rip it apart. This film..made me cry..Naaa!! I was joking! I did'int cry although at parts,I felt like it. The film was so true and it was really like..true. Unlike The Notebook or Titanic,this is so true and what actually happens in relationships. Trust me,I do love,Titanic..but 6 Years is so much better!!

Anyone who says this is a realistic portrayal of a relationship needs therapy and I don't mean that in a snarky way. If neither of you need therapy then even your worst relationship would never be this insufferable.The girl needs anger management and the guy seriously needs to work on his communication skills. Every single character was unlikable. I work in Austin so the only thing I could relate to was the scenery and hipsters but even then they were too spunky and friendly for Austin hipsters so my brief glimpse of immersion was ruined as soon as they opened their mouths. And don't even get me started on the ending, but I'm trying to keep this spoiler-free to give fair warning to any rational person thinking about trying this movie. Don't do this to yourself unless you need background fodder or you are under 25 with a heightened pain threshold.

This is a movie that surprised me on many levels. I think the acting was decent. The plot wasn't very fast-paced, but in my opinion it was very, very real (personally, I could fully relate to this relationship minus the physical aggression part). It's not a story about partying, or love, or careers. And nope, I also don't think it's a movie about abusive relationships. In the end, it's a story about two children, who are suddenly faced with grown-up decisions and fully unable to deal with them (Spoiler: towards the end, Mel reaches that conclusion, saying she's scared to grow up, and at the end she actually makes the grown-up decision to let Dan go). Mel is deeply insecure (it's all over the movie, like her acting really insecure when he says he doesn't like kissing her after she smokes, then later with the porn, and so many other moments), acting out on her fears and regretting it just moments later. I don't think she's even really aware how much of a problem her anger issues are. Dan is much less insecure, but he's not a great communicator. He says little things that make Mel even more insecure. He has a new life, one that doesn't suit Mel well (his new friends and work), but instead of trying to resolve their differences, he just does his own thing. The circle of doom is easily born from this: her acting on her insecurities triggers him becoming more distant and focusing more on his work and co-worker, which in turn triggers her insecurity, which causes her to act less reasonable, which triggers him becoming more distant etc. Their problems could be resolved, but it requires them to act like grown-ups. Him, to talk about her aggression issues (and not in the middle of a fight) instead of cheating and lying about it. Her, to tell him about her insecurities in an open way and talk with him, instead of keeping looking for confirmations that he loves her. But they are still kids, not mature enough to take a step back and solve the problem, rather than wrapping op in their own frustration.

I've read other reviews of the movie. At least one blames the couple's issues solely on the girl for being codependent. This is a depiction of a COMPLETELY codependent couple. It is not one sided because they both have bouts with it. The ending is assumed, but unstated. Unlike a prior reviewer, I have more issue with Dan cheating than with her having a problem with it. The whole film isn't one of a boozy drug scene or of sex either. As someone who was in a young long term relationship where the other person was dependent on me I could relate to both sides. I just didn't get to experience nearly as much joy as they did from the relationship. My joy ended at 6 mo and the relationship was 3 yrs. Also, if they wanted to make this work, they could have...the movie cut where it didn't seem that they would, but left it to the viewer.