In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)

What did I just watch? This is awful. Boring, annoying, and cringe worthy. I depressed guy posts an ad on Craigslist so he can met someone on New years eve. A women responds and they agree to meet. This woman is the most annoying person I have ever heard speak. She is rude, and vile. The worst part was I did not by her acting as a rude vile person. The guys looks like and acts like a total loser and apparently he is. Anyone who confesses he masturbated to his best friends g/f's photo is a really winner (insert eye roll). Why would anyone follow this girl around anyway, she tells him off time and time again but he still follows her around? Why? The movie was basically I bunch of talking, boring, mundane talking and walking around LA.

Wilson, a man almost thirty years is alone on the night of the New Year. He has fantasies with Min, girlfriend of Jacob. It recommended that he put an ad on a popular dating site and is contacted by Vivian, a rebellious girl, strict and that seems to want to do everything in a very big hurry. After they met between the two occur events which reveals that they could match but not before he take her out to dinner in a fancy restaurant and being put in a position to talk to her former boyfriend from witch receives threats and so he have to rush to help her go home to recover some things before Jack comes and gives them fire. Did this for then to go to the party where his friend Jacob will propose marriage to Min. Things take a strange turn when she jumps on him to kiss but he then rejects her. He tells Vivian what happened but it does not upset because both understand the situation and what they wanted exactly happens will not be alone New Year's Eve and eventually Wilson finds what he wanted, the most desired midnight kiss. Although the action takes place in December, in the winter, I have not seen even a snowflake not an inch of snow on the streets and do not know why it was filmed in black and white. Maybe it was hiding the fact that the outside was another season? Anyway a good movie about love differently than others seen so far from where we can learn something because it can happen in real life.

It would be grossly unfair on Alex Holdridge, the writer and director of "In Search of a Midnight Kiss", to use the term "rom-com" or to draw any comparison between this film and any of the light and frothy chick-flicks against which he would have been vying for the old teen/young tween audience. "In Search of a Midnight Kiss" is much, much better than this. The narrative spans twenty-four hours beginning on the morning of New Year's Eve and follows the life of Wilson (played by a young-Hugh-Laurie-look-a-liking Scoot McNairy), a budding script-writer approaching the dreaded thirty years of age and who has followed the traditional trail west to Los Angeles in order to build his career. Typically, his life has stalled and L.A. dreams have rusted away into days spent smoking weed and masturbating over his best friend's girlfriend. Taking pity on him on this particular New Year's Eve, these friends convince him to add a personal to Craigslist in order to secure a date for that evening – a move that shortly sees us introduced to Vivian (Sara Simmonds). The film then follows Wilson and Vivian as their date progresses, rather clumsily at first as Wilson's dated Romantic views clash with Vivian's neo-feminist go-get-it attitude, before the latter's tough façade fades and the two begin to bond through mutual insecurities and cynicism towards modern-life and love, aided beautifully by Holdridge's easy dialogue. However, this is so much more than the typical Hollywood flick aimed at bleeding dry the girls-night-out pockets. This is not just a story about love; it is a story about insecurity and how the changes in our life are governed by these insecurities, something not just limited to the characters' or viewers' lives either. There's something greater to be said here about Los Angeles and Hollywood - much like how the characters cover their insecurities with aggression, be it violence or sexuality, Hollywood's once-esteemed stage theatres are standing empty, largely unused except as strip clubs and nude cabaret shows – and the film studios are surely no better off.I guess it is a cruel irony of this that the box office takings for "In Search of a Midnight Kiss" were so low. I would suggest a problem with the marketing at the time of release but confess that I don't even recall seeing any marketing at all (I found it only through peer review). This film is charming, beautifully shot in black and white; it's thought-provoking and deeper than its appearance but with enough humour and character-magnetism throughout to entertain any viewer. The script is wonderfully natural throughout and both the main stars turn out thoroughly engaging performances. I'd recommend this film to anyone, but especially to anyone who has ever picked up a Douglas Coupland novel, or who has ever looked out the window and considered how cheap those things we esteem highest are often portrayed in the media.8/10. A hidden gem. What a shame that it was so overlooked by the cinemas. Perhaps it was released the same week as some cheap and forgettable Jennifer Aniston rom-com...

The movie is overall good, but I am so sorry for the racial content.Anyways, I would refer to a paper to Crawford's modern racism paper about media so you don't think I am hard! "Media, Stereotypes and the Perpetuation of Racism in Canada" by CrawfordIt also talks about how to elaborate racism in a covered way in media.Just look how delicately, the movie maker made the cute normal Chinese girl look like an ignorant screamer unfaithful b**ch (she is generally ignorant, she liked the jerk-off, and wanted to be f**ked by Wilson, etc). Now, the white girl (who at the beginning talks like the stereotyped white whore) turns out to be so smooth and romantic, and into relationships, and she talks lovely afterwards. She is accurate and sensitive (even considers the existence of lonely shoes), and is hating the jerk-off confession, and totally contrasting it with the Chinese girl making her a whore. The boys are all into relationship, the girls are not, the Chinese is made a total bitch and unfaithful. I mean, why for the sake of the movie, there had to be a Chinese girl? there is not any other Chinese even in the background!