The One I Love

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The story is about how Ethan and Sophie's marriage is on the brink of divorce, so they go to a marriage counselor, who then sends them on a holiday at a country house. One night they fight because after having an intimate intercourse, Ethan denies Sophie he had the same experience. They let it go that night but when the the subject reemerges the next morning, Ethan, suspecting something, then goes to search the house. They then find that there are two people, who are their exact copies. They scoot out of the place at first. But due to sheer curiosity they come back and each take 'sessions' with the copies of the spouse. They both soon find that the copies are the better version of them. Ethan can shake away the temptation to 'cheat' with Sophie's copy, but Sophie gets more and more attracted to Ethan's copy. He then take Sophie and confront the copies. Ethan's copy considers that the whole condition is just something ordinary. Ethan's copy asks the group to go on hiking, which Ethan and Sophie's copy declined. Sophie's copy tells the truth that there can only be two people leaving the place, and that she is not willing to have Ethan's copy to leave with the real Sophie. With Sophie's copy, Ethan sneaks in and talk Sophie out of going. Ethan's copy, after a brief confrontation with Ethan, storms out to go out on his own. But he is stopped at the gate. Ethan then takes Sophie, one of the Sophies, to leave the country house, while the other Sophie is kind of stunned watching the whole ordeal. Back in their house, Ethan and Sophie get their marriage back on track, or is it the real Sophie? I like the surprise of the copies that the movie presents. I've seen the similar concept depicted on the movie +1 (2013). But this movie takes it a bit further by exploring more on the side of relationship between the real persons and the copies. But it also can kind of makes it a little bit harder to follow which ones are the real persons and which are the copies, due to there are many scenes with fast flow where the characters changes clothes. The mood of the entire movie is, unlike +1, is kept at the lonesome gloom. While on the other hand the pace of the story flow is done interchanging from slow to fast to slow again. Yet they're done predictably, enabling the viewers to barely hold on to the story despite it's quite absurd nature. The terminal twist after the confrontations are also a nice touch to the whole story. They make the movie quite worthy to be mention as a mystery genre movie. An the acting side, Both Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss did just an okay performance. Their performance wasn't any special because the viewers still find a bit of difficulty in distinguishing between the real characters and the copies, beside the help of the physical distinctions. My opinion for The One I Love (2014) is that it's worth a recommendation to go and see. It's just regrettable that the surprise element is juts it's only fun factor, thus I give it only a 6 out of 10 score.

The One I Love isn't the easiest film to review without giving too much away, so I'll be brief with the details. A couple who are coming apart at the seams, are given a getaway destination by their therapist to heal their relationship and rekindle their passion for one another -- but this is no ordinary destination. In what would be a great short film or half hour TV slot, this runs completely out of steam by the 45 minute mark and drags its repetitive corpse with its thin narrative threads to the feature finish line. It tries to deconstruct a failing relationship with a clever gimmick, but has nowhere to go but in circles and just becomes obnoxious. This feels more like a filmmaking exercise than an actual film and Moss and Duplass don't feel believable as a couple - there's little content for them to work with and they can't outwit a gimmick that has nowhere to go.

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