What a wonderful movie! Love Hunter has so much heart. The main character, Milan, is very appealing, a genuine star. The story, the pacing, the cinematography, the tone of the film — it's all very accomplished. I found myself agreeing with Milan's philosophy of life-and-art, which is that if you try hard enough, luck will come. It is a way of saying: in this life, we make our own luck. The philosophical question is one about destiny. If you have talent (and like their main character, the young directors of Love Hunter most definitely do), then "success" will depend on how much drive you have. But "drive," surely, is a matter of fate or destiny. How much drive a person has is a question of individual character — which had me wondering: is "character" hard-wired in each of us by the time we are five years old? Freud says something like this in Civilization and Its Discontents, when he observes about "happiness": "There is no golden rule which applies to everyone: every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved." The Bala brothers are to be congratulated! They capture something wonderful about New York as a great world city where the talented and ambitious come to seek and make their fortune. With subtle humor and observation, they explore that eternal challenge: how to find a balance between making art and having a life.
Review of Love Hunter
