Breakfast movie: The Deep Blue Sea

The Deep Blue Sea is a drama. And romance. But mostly angsty, and bland. It doesn't involve the sea in any way. And it goes in the same box as Parnassus with the jumbled bits and pieces. "Oh I know, let's make flashbacks here and there, and oh no now we have to continue the realtime story, ok let's do that for the rest of the film, oh no wait there's still a couple flashbacks I want to put in there". Cute. 

My biggest problem with this movie: you get the feeling you're supposed to sympathize with Rachel Weisz's character. But really... how can you sympathize with a character who A) cheats on her husband until he finds out and then leaves her and B) attempts suicide because she has this problem with the new guy: "He doesn't love me as much as I love him!". I just want to slap her and tell her to get a grip. I guess that's just 'cause her acting's so good that I really get annoyed by her stupid character. Geez. I sympathized more with Hannibal in Silence of the Lambs.
 And hey, it's set in post-war London and He-who-does-not-love-her-as-much-as-she-loves-him used to be a pilot but let's not expand on that at all. In fact, let's not develop his character much at all. He can just kind of be there and look pretty. And later on he can be angry. He's good at being angry.

I wouldn't be this disappointed usually, but I actually had some stupid idea that this might be a good film. No. Wrong. It's not complete torment to watch it but please, there are better things to see.

She smokes a lot in this film. And suppresses her emotions.

Luckily, my day was not ruined by this because I've been planning a hiking trip that's gonna be great fun.