Stars: 3/5 ⭐️So, I don't know why people liked this movie, because the characters should have not ended up together, because they have some issues. So, it follows Ben, played by Jack Quaid, and Alice, played by Maya Erskine, who are friends from college, having been friends for over a decade, decide to be each other's plus one's to the marathon of weddings, and after spending a lot of time together, they decide to start dating, however, they both have their inter and intrapersonal issues. Like, for Ben, which I would just like to say, why is Jack Quaid typecast as a loser human, to put it bluntly in all his stuff? Except in Scream 2022, but he was a loser for a different reason, but people always rip on his characters, and I don't know, I don't like it. But back to his issues, Ben believes in the one, because his father has been through two marriages and is trying for his third, and Ben grew up on the idea that he wanted to get straight to the marriage that would definitively last, which obviously there is no definitive way to tell that, which is what he learns throughout the movie. Ben also likes to project issues onto people's he's dating, and constantly questions if the person that he is with is the one, where he will implode a relationship out of fear of I'm assuming him getting hurt, it's never fully explained, because he does this with Alice obviously, but he says that it's more about how he doesn't want to be like her ex, but then again that could just be him deflecting from his own issues, and placing blame on other people in a sense. But, now with Alice, it's never fully explained her issues, even though she has them, as this is from Ben's point of view throughout the movie, but the most obvious place that we can look for issues is her parents, which have a tragic story. They didn't want to subject their kids to a divorce, so they decided to stay together, even though they have not been happy with each other for a long long time, and I think there are two things that Alice has internalized from her parents. One, masking her feelings with jokes, slights, and insults. Every time there's something wrong, she'll always tee up a joke usually at the expense of Ben. This is the other issue, she likes to take jabs at Ben, her boyfriend, and I don't see how he could continuously take that, because she can be mean sometimes, however, I think as I stated before, it's to hide her emotions. And here's the thing, I love that they have real issues, like normal humans, it makes them feel more human, the actors themselves are great, but the thing is, they never really work on their issues throughout the movie. Ben just learns a lesson at the end, which I guess is how people are, but it feels rushed, and we don't understand why Alice takes him back, because, yes, he's sad that he hurt her, and she's sad she got hurt, but it's not like he's somehow shown growth between the time they break it off, and he gets back with her, except that he can tell her that he loves her and before he wasn't sure how he felt about her, so that might be the change that she's looking for because she needs to be in a happy loving relationship, unlike her parents. But, in all, Plus One is almost like a grimmer take on rom-com with all the insults and slights and baggage throughout this movie, where the characters are hard to like sometimes.
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