Really Surprised!

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This is not usually the kind of film I would pick up but I was intrigued that it was Wong Kar Wai who directed and that Lawrence Block had a hand in the writing. Not sure if this should be called a romantic comedy, probably not as its not very funny, nor is is particularly romantic. I guess there are romantic notions, deliberations over whether to have the infamous blueberry pie, the rather charming business regarding customer keys left at the diner and other little things made rather a lot of. Main thing, this is really good to look at. As was to be expected this is very colourful with the director making the most of neon and reflections. Not afraid to shoot wondrous close-ups irrelevant to the dialogue. Which brings us to Lawrence Block, whose work I have read rather a lot of. Apart from his hard edged villainous stuff (and even within some of those) he can switch effortlessly to believable, small time dialogue, bit like how Tarantino does rather heavy-handedly. Here the actors seem to have had a hand in it too, so much comes across as improvised and no the worse for that. Its just this doesn't really go anywhere, not really, but it is not an unpleasant way to spend some time.

a wonderfully simple story of the wants of the human heart. desire can so often cloud our true feelings and we must experience life - first hand - to understand ourselves.i so greatly enjoyed this movie and i agree with other reviewers that there are holes in the story but - so what. the characterizations are so perfect and grasping of the viewers imagination any flaw in the story seems minor.if you want a story of soul searching and personal adventure to discover 'the self' this is your flick. some of us must seek through travel others are willing to wait it out hoping it will come to us. here we have both sides meeting - leaving - returning.this isn't a great movie but it is a wonderful story. please - give a chance!

Jeremy (Jude Law), from England, has moved to Manhattan and operates a small "pub". His specialties are his wonderful desserts, including blueberry pie. One day, a beautiful young woman, Elizabeth (Norah Jones) walks in to the place, extremely distraught. Her boyfriend has ended their relationship and she is beside herself with grief. It seems her former love comes into the pub and she was hoping to "run into" him. Despite Lizzie coming a few times, she doesn't meet him. Then, too, although Jeremy obviously grows to like her, its too soon for Elizabeth to even think about moving on. So, Lizzie sets off for Memphis and sends postcards to Jeremy from time to time. In Tennessee, the young lady works as a waitress during the day and in a bar at night. Amazingly, the same man frequents both places. That would be a police officer (David Straithairn) who eats in the morning and gets totally drunk at night. An alcoholic who has tried to quit, he is now in deep because his gorgeous young wife, Sue Lynne (Rachel Weisz) has left him. Lizzie tries to comfort him but he remains melancholy. Will his broken heart ever mend? After living in the South, Elizabeth goes west to Nevada where she meets Leslie (Natalie Portman) who wants to sell the waitress her dad's car, Lizzie's fondest wish. All the while, Elizabeth continues to write to Jeremy. Is a new affection brewing? This is a stunning film, with a sensational story, script and direction. In addition, the photography and editing are awe-inspiring, very creative and unusual. On top of this, the cast is likewise wonderful, with Law, Jones, Straithairn, Weisz, Portman, and all of the others exhibiting fine, fine performances. So, despite a cover that looks like a typical romantic drama, this film is much more. Thus, this viewer says, make your night a Blueberry Night soon.

Singer Norah Jones plays a young woman who takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way. One of them is Jeremy (Jude Law) the owner of a coffee-shop whose Blueberry pies are the only one left out untouched (according to him no one likes it). She and Jeremy has some conversations about destiny, love and some left keys in the place and the story behind those keys. Wong Kar-Wai's film is a very unsatisfying work that drags the viewer into countless slow paced scenes, and a ridiculous cinematography that mixed slow motion with blurry effects. The conversations at night between Norah and Law was great, it was the greatest achievement of the film, but the excessive use of intern scenes was tiresome, we never know if a day passed by between these encounters, she just enters and enters again. The supporting roles performed by Natalie Portman, David Strathairn and Rachel Weisz sometimes were good, other times were irritating. I mean, this story was too forced. A woman's cross in the path of many different characters trying to see life in another way. And then what? What can we possibly learn here? The simplicity of acts, and the actions of the characters didn't embrace me, didn't move me at all. And the whole lesson given by Portman's character of never trust everyone was good (she's a gambler who makes a great offer to Jones and then everything went wrong and she lost Jones money). With this lesson in mind I didn't trust this movie, neither trust that the director of the great "Happy Together" made such a weak film. My question is: Kar-Wai was being real here in making this film, did he really show his feelings about love or it was a too much cinematic film, trying to be an artist? Oh, about the blueberry subject about everybody hating it, I wish I could understand this pointless reference. Is it really that bad? I never ate one but that's another story. It's a sad vacuum in terms of story and direction, although the performances were quite good. 4/10