Third Person (2013)

Three interlocking love stories involving three couples in three cities: Rome, Paris, and New York. Third Person stars Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde, Adrien Brody, James Franco, Mila Kunis and Maria Bello. Suprisingly this movie worked great with all 3 stories since all of them were very interesting, heartwarming but also even a bit dramatic to say the least plus i was suprised by how good both Franco and Kunis were in this film. Overall if you're into drama and romance and a mix of different people threw different countries? You'll like it...

I found nothing fundamentally wrong with this picture. Is it slightly predictable? Yes, but breathtaking twists are not always necessary for a film to be good. And I did not feel insulted by the subtle hints that were carefully dispersed to lead us up to what was coming in the end. The acting was PHENOMENAL, the interior design a treat to the eye, the camera... the directing... the dialogues... What am I missing here? Why does "Iron Man: Civil War" warrant 7.5, but "Third Person" no more than 4 out of 10?

Main plot begins when Scott (Adrien Brody) finds "love bomb" in small Italian café. Everything else happens around this plot and is called ordinary life with many problems characters have in life. Almost every character is loser except two of them who experienced lose before and they wanted something else. Do good deed, expect good. Do evil deed and expect a lot worse. Someone picks money but what about love? Someone picks love but what happens with money?You can live life without love but what kind of life, and on the other point of view how to live without money? Shakespearean, TO BE OR NOT TO BE. Good movie, well written and directed by Paul Haggis, good acting especially main characters Moran Atias (Monika), Adrien Brody (Scott) and Liam Nelson (Michael). Definitely watch this movie.

It's the oddity of this movie's tone that makes it memorable. And it's a film that tempts a second viewing to see how everything fits. The central character, a struggling novelist, is in self-imposed exile in Paris trying to come to grips with a horrible family tragedy, keyed by a child's whisper at the very beginning and end. Other stories begin in Rome and New York, seemingly unconnected. Episodes are in turn baffling, horrific, or frustrating in that dream-like way in which a goal is always horrifyingly out of reach before waking. The clue here is the odd detail. An impoverished gypsy woman who inexplicably shows up with a different car in every scene. A hotel room fantastically filled with flowers. A young child agonizingly out of reach to a woman who is chronically late to critical appointments. A journal put in a hotel safe that winds up on a used book table. And so on. It's a puzzle playing out in one man's head as he tries to come to grips with reality that, unlike a novel or a dream, can't be changed. I think the director could have made the final puzzle pieces clearer at the end and created a much more popular film, but the acting is brilliant (especially when you go back over the scenes) and the storytelling unique. Not a popcorn movie, but one to think about.