The One I Love (2014)

Just perfect...

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This movie was unexpected, funny, and thought provoking. The script was great, a different take on a rom-com.

oh my god this movie is amazing until the very end. be ready for twists and surprises, i want to poop myself the movie is so good. dear lord i haven't seen a movie this good in a long time. get ready for drama, love and suspense. top 10 movies of the year (2017), cant believe i just discovered this movie!!!! I am pretty hard with movie reviews and this one makes my top 10.

Such a terrific experience. Went in not knowing a single thing about it, except for the part it was kind of a romantic dramedy and was really surprised. "The One I Love" wasn't really the kind of film I was expecting and that's what probably made me like it so much. Carried by the two leads (the both excellent Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss) this is one of those few films where you don't get sick of watching always the same actors on-screen. In fact, the constrained setting makes it much fresh. The soundtrack also factored heavily to create a somewhat creepy and weird atmosphere that the story really benefits from. "The One I Love" can be creepy and extremely charming almost at the some time, and you'll find yourself wondering why some things are happening. Despite leaving some questions unanswered, the film still holds up pretty well and is definitely worthwatching.An amazing directorial debut for Charlie Mcdowell.

First the good news. Apparently this movie was made on a budget of $100K, which is an impressive achievement in any language, regardless of the merit of the result. Bravo for that. But ultimately I have to rate this on whether I think it was a good choice on which to spend my hard earned money and while I wish I could say it was unfortunately it was not. The first sign of trouble came even before watching it when I found one review referred to it as a "psychological thriller" while another referred to it as a "rom-com". While movies don't have to fall into a category it is a worry when 2 categorisation attempts yield such extreme bi-polar opinions.In my opinion this movie is neither psychological, thrilling, romantic or in the least bit funny. I would say its category, if it must have one, is "wannabe quirky". "Quirky" is difficult to pull off, it can be extremely good, as in say the prototype quirky movie Amelie, or a complete failure, as in this one. This movie had some interesting ideas but fails to capitalise on them. Probably the major problem is the "characters", and I use that word generously. The "real" Ethan and Sophie are people of no redeeming features or interest – I could not care less about them as individuals let alone care about them as a couple. I would describe them as "Woody Allen" characters, boring, rich, superficial, shallow people who have ridiculous, unrealistic conversations. Hard to believe but the "other" Ethan and Sophie are even worse – urgh – although they had no reason to be. OK, this is not a sin but even in rom-coms, there is a character arc that attempts to change the obnoxious characters at the start of the movie into something nice by the end. These people start as boring strangers and end up as boring strangers. I don' have a problem with the whole concept of doppelgangers, my mind is capable of making that transition and suspension of logic. So I didn't need the attempts to explain how and why the doppelgangers got there just as I didn't need to be given a proof for alien life to enjoy ET. The actors have a thankless task. They are probably fine actors but how can anyone portray a character that does not have any depth, with any depth? It might have been possible to give the two dimensional characters some warmth, and there were plenty of opportunities for humour, which were duly missed. Perhaps that random comment about aardvarks was supposed to be funny? Well it wasn't, it was forced and cringe worthy. Was anyone surprised, or amused, by the so-called twist at the end? That was obvious about as soon as the doppelgangers arrived. To be honest I didn't understand the point of the doppelgangers – I gather they were supposed to give the real Ethan and Sophie an insight into what they used to be, or could be, but frankly I couldn't care enough to even think about that. And if their aim was to reconcile the real couple, why have the ending make this goal fail? But really I don't care about that either. And what exactly was the point of the therapist and the piano? So two people are supposed to strike random keys in harmony? What an absurd idea and how irrelevant to the "plot".Technically the movie is all it needs to be – which isn't much – lots of interior shots competently enough done.All in all a disappointing execution of what could have been an interesting premise.