bricslove
First off, I don't see any problems with the pacing, the visuals, or the music in the movie. All were fine and in fact, although the ending felt a bit rushed, it was not just meaningful but also artistic without being pretentious.I agree, however, with some of the reviewers that it more falls into the drama genre than thriller. I have a brief moment of disappointment with good flicks that are categorized wrong, but that's about it.Now... My character analysis is somewhere between the spectrum of views from the reviewers.The movie does not clearly hint at any possibility that Clarke's character specifically went out to find someone permanently vulnerable to marry, due to a handicap. When you extrapolate the characters into the past, perhaps some of the audience would say that is very likely. Understandably so, as there are many people who actually feel so insecure as to purposely marry totally dependent partners. The problem in the movie is, though, Lively's character doesn't waste time to confirm her husband's fears, and denies it when confronted.It would be only natural for her to change her looks following the operation- she had to see herself first to know what she wanted to look like.That was not what troubled the husband. It could have been, in other cases, but the movie tells us that it is not.What critically troubled the husband was that scene on the train that he kept replaying, closing up on his wife's face as she thought no one was watching.Also the realizations: 1. she lied about the man in the park 2. she said she was pregnant, without knowing her husband was sterile.Whereas he could confront her and file a divorce or give her a second chance, the husband hatched a wicked plan to have her blind self back, failing to accept the fact that newly gained eyesight would make one discover more about oneself and have preferences with things one had no way of deciding before. As Gina said: "we don't know who me is." This was the problem. The husband could only get to know this new wife as fast as she could get to know more of herself. This problem was not mutually shared, as the wife had understandably welcomed the changes with delight.Said another way, changes happen faster than the husband is able to let sink in and upon realizing that he is losing his wife, he tries to reverse the process back to when he knows she would need him, therefore would keep him, as if he can make her unsee things, rewind time. So he tries to actually blind her. That is how mentally sick he has become. As the wife is singing this song on stage from a time when she was blind and all she saw was him, and staring straight in his eyes all the time... there's this silent conversation via exchanges of gazes of how she used to love him, how she could still see and knew what he had been up to, and how he ruined it all. He gets the messages, walks out on her and jumps in his car, and, absorbed in a very emotionally intense session of self-introspection and judgment while driving, ends up in a fatal accident.A life ends as a new one begins. Things move on, one way or another. If he had thought about it before the operation he could prepare and therefore grant himself "the serenity to accept the things he cannot change".I loved almost everything about the movie without the need to root for either of these two characters who had become very realistically unlikable as the movie proceeded. I respect this in a movie. A cold but sincere little flick.
Iusedtobeacat
I was looking forward to watching this film, the trailer looked OK. I like Blake Lively and I thought this movie would be quite interesting to watch. I can't say Im fully disappointed, I was expecting a plot that revolved around silent emotional abuse and that is exactly what you end up getting in this movie. The acting was alright. The first half was in my opinion pretty bad and the movie did improve towards the end. I just found the duration span of this movie quite long and the plot surely seems to drag on for eternity. The ending for me was the worst of all it's what broke the camel's back. I just didn't buy it, it seemed rushed and abrupt. This movie deals with some pretty dark themes but it tries to lighten up the mood a bit, the emotional abuse is very subtle and aside from a few outbreaks and lashing outs it was hardly evident. Co-dependency is a very serious mental issue and I thought the plot at least made how unhealthy that is obvious enough. What I didn't like was the way the characters dealt with each other, how they interacted and how the story ended.I don't have to tell you not to watch this, because apparently this movie costed 30 Million USD to make but its revenue from the box office was 217,644 USD. The release date got pushed back twice as well, until it was finally released in October of 2017. I can see this movie wasn't popular enough from the get go, however in case you're thinking of watching this save yourself the trouble.
lavatch
"All I See Is You" is a romantic-psychological-thriller with two of the most repulsive leading characters in recent memory.The setting is Bangkok, Thailand, and the focus is on a dysfunctional marriage built around the sense of sight. Gina is visually impaired, due to a devastating automobile accent in which her parents died and she lost her sight. "Big Bad" James is the doting husband who has found his calling in life by being a caretaker to his beloved wife and relishing in her dependency.Due to the miracle of medical science, Gina has surgery that restores her sight in one eye. The film might have been a celebration of the gift of eyesight, as clearly the film artists have some talent in the visual language of cinema. Instead, the film turned into a bizarre psychological thriller.There is a defining moment in the film when Gina ask James whether he loved her more when she was blind. "Big Bad" James hedges on his answer, turning question back on Gina. The couple attempts to celebrate the occasion of Gina's restored sight by traveling to Spain. But Gina and James bicker about whether or not they are staying in the same exact hotel room from their honeymoon, and they meet the strangest pair of in-laws imaginable in Gina's sister and her psychotic avant-garde artist husband.Another bummer in the couple's relationship is that they desperately want a child, which is not forthcoming. Of course, they are convinced that having a baby will solve all of their personal problems! "Big Bad" James is shooting blanks due to low sperm count. So, do they try to solve the problem by talking about in vitro? Of course not, because talking about their problems would be the sign of a healthy relationship!In the most improbable moment in the film, "Big Bad" James dilutes Gina's eye drops in the hope her blindness will return along with the former power structure of their relationship. He also inexplicably has the couple's lavish apartment trashed and turns loose Gina's beloved dog Ginger. But Gina outfoxes "Big Bad" James. Ginger finds a new a loving pet owner. Gina secretly takes her genuine eye drops. And for the clincher, she becomes pregnant after coupling with a potent fellow dog lover! This slow-moving film was a train wreck in character development. With a thin script, the filmmakers attempted to drench the product in atmosphere. The result was a big-budget Lifetime Channel psychodrama about a couple of nut cases.
