juneebuggy I put off watching this because of all the terrible reviews out there but I actually really enjoyed it. The Words is a layered romantic drama. A story-within-a-story-within-a-story is the best way I can describe it and its cleverly done, following Bradley Cooper as a struggling writer who finds an old manuscript in a bag and before he knows what he's doing writes the entire thing up on his computer and then passes it off as his own. 'Rory' rockets to fame, credited with writing the next great American novel but experiences a crisis of conscience after meeting the man whose work he stole, in fact life, as we flashback to the real author as a young man and discover his heartbreaking autobiography. Meanwhile a greasy Dennis Quaid has written a book about a famous author stealing another man's work. I think everyone will get something different from this, its layered, engaging and filled with good preformances. A surprise hit for me, I thought about for days afterwards.

fredvilar Was it the difference between a life and its unfolding, and the novel inspired in it, just a matter of writing and publishing? The facts report of our life are a journal, but written by another person become literature? Everything is the same content and only the observer changes? It's interesting how a person's life inspires someone else's life, just as a movie or a book can inspire those who consume it. Or let yourself be consumed. Wearing from inside out someone's life. And all this has to be limited and separated only by Words. On the other hand, it is a great learning to see the acceptance of both, who lived, and who wrote, about the unfolding of life. Whoever was a soldier can become a florist. And whoever really lied can be freed by someone else's truth.

Leftbanker ¡¡¡Spoilers!!!First of all, this film deserves a huge amount of credit just making a film for adults as there are precious few of those today.The concept of a writer taking credit for the work of another artist is well-covered territory. This isn't to say that it is too tired to be done again and this story certainly has its share of original twists.I thought the protagonist was way too whiny about his lack of success as a writer, like being a literary superstar was his entitlement. It didn't speak much about him the fact that he didn't set the world on fire with his first book was enough to break him. And from whiny little sissy he is getting chauffeured limo rides? As a writer? After one book? Unlikely at best. He finds a manuscript and he doesn't change a word? It just seems that if he had any talent he could have stole the story and made it his own. Publishing it as he found it would have just been stupid. How would he ever know that it wasn't published somewhere? After he gets rich and famous he gets even whinier.In the end I just got the feeling that the two writers don't read enough and watch too many movies. The film lacks any sort of verisimilitude; it's like a reflection of another movie of the same theme. Corny is a word that comes quickly to mind when you see the scenes of the love affair in Paris. A word that doesn't come to mind is realistic, nor anything close to that. It just looks like a Paris created on a Hollywood lot, a Paris created by people who may have been to Paris but haven't read enough or thought enough about it to have anything original to add. A thing that you learn from watching too many movies is that dead babies are sad. Once again, super corny.Absolutely everything about the part in France was just dreadful and difficult to watch for me. He throws a temper tantrum and ruins his own flat? What sort of moron would do that? Once again, they just took the Hollywood way of showing anger. Think again. "The words simply poured out of him." Think again. After the loss why in the hell didn't he just rewrite it? How hard could that have been if he wrote it in two weeks? I think the two writers were just so mesmerized with their concept that they didn't bother much with the execution. "We all make our choices; the hard part is living with them." Another dud of a line in a movie that is supposed to be about great writing. I think they stole this one from something their half-senile aunt posted on Facebook under a picture of a cat hanging from a branch.The ending was the worst part by far.

Enrique Patiño I didn't see this movie when it arrived to the theaters. And forget it pretty soon. But what a great movie it is. I just saw it last night and was impressed and touched. The movie involves three different stories with characters that are all tied to each other in the same main big story, referring to a man who wants to be a great writer, the old man who actually wrote the story that takes the writer to be famous and the story of a writer who reads the story of them two. With excellent and delicate music and cinematography, wit a beautiful edition and direction, the movie confronted me with the decisions we make, regret, past, honesty, ethics and the limitations of life. Absolutely beautiful, it touched my heart.