This movie really accomplishes a lot. On its face it's very understated - there's limited dialogue, it takes place over a short amount of time, there are very few characters, and nothing overtly life- altering happens to anyone. No big speeches, no blow-up fights, no big set pieces, no significant investments of time or money that will haunt the characters. So it's pretty impressive how many complex human experiences it touches on while you hardly even notice anything has happened. It captures why someone might stick around to see where a relationship is going, even if there are some red flags. It captures the fact that sometimes this isn't a bad thing to do. And sometimes it is. It captures how we have to extend trust to new people in our lives, and ways in which extending your trust can be sometimes rewarding and sometimes disappointing. It captures why it might seem like a near-stranger understands us better than our friends and family do. It captures the dynamic of a best friend telling us something's not good for us or not something we can handle. And the fact that sometimes the friend was wrong, but sometimes they did know what they were talking about. It grapples with extending a second chance to someone who's let you down. And it deftly shows the dance we do when a relationship starts off as sexual and then we try to see if it could be anything else.
It demonstrates a very sweet lesson: that even if a relationship doesn't work out the way you hoped it might, that doesn't make it a waste of time. Someone can disappoint you but nonetheless have a big impact on your life. As someone who's wondered if I've stayed in some relationships too long, this was a welcome reminder that just because those relationships were flawed, that doesn't make me silly for having wanted to give them a try.
It demonstrates a very sweet lesson: that even if a relationship doesn't work out the way you hoped it might, that doesn't make it a waste of time. Someone can disappoint you but nonetheless have a big impact on your life. As someone who's wondered if I've stayed in some relationships too long, this was a welcome reminder that just because those relationships were flawed, that doesn't make me silly for having wanted to give them a try.