This movie is very well filmed with good cinematography and appealing actors, but I'm not sure what the director intended, and my best guess as to his intention is one I disagree with.
In the movie, a guy proposes to a girl, she says no, and he asks for 90 days to win her over. So they meet every day for 90 days and he gives her a coin and apparently keeps a diary or something (which isn't clear until later when she reads it).
After 90 days she agrees to marry him, although they don't actually marry. But there is friction and he is jealous, which doesn't seem reasonable from what is seen in the movie. She decides to go off for a career opportunity in Paris, and she doesn't hear from him again.
She then comes across the coins and the diary, which describes each day and is very romantic and loving. And she cries because it's all gone.
And that's fine, because you would cry in that case. But my reading is that the director thinks she should have stayed with the guy, and is crying because she didn't. And since the world is full of men who are romantic in the beginning and then become jealous or neglectful later on, I don't think she made a mistake. I think it was good she got out.
Of course, the director could intend that too. She could be crying simply because, even though she had to leave, it's sad to have lost that romantic guy when he turned into that jealous guy. And if that's what the director meant, then I can appreciate the movie a little more.
But either way, I was never quite vibing with this movie. The 90-coins idea seemed weird to begin with, the movie didn't really make a case for her staying with him until the end when we saw the flashbacks and heard the diary entries, and the characters are very generic (although admittedly it's hard to delve much into personality in a 10-minute film).
This movie wanted to take me on an emotional journey, but it just never persuaded me to get on the train.
In the movie, a guy proposes to a girl, she says no, and he asks for 90 days to win her over. So they meet every day for 90 days and he gives her a coin and apparently keeps a diary or something (which isn't clear until later when she reads it).
After 90 days she agrees to marry him, although they don't actually marry. But there is friction and he is jealous, which doesn't seem reasonable from what is seen in the movie. She decides to go off for a career opportunity in Paris, and she doesn't hear from him again.
She then comes across the coins and the diary, which describes each day and is very romantic and loving. And she cries because it's all gone.
And that's fine, because you would cry in that case. But my reading is that the director thinks she should have stayed with the guy, and is crying because she didn't. And since the world is full of men who are romantic in the beginning and then become jealous or neglectful later on, I don't think she made a mistake. I think it was good she got out.
Of course, the director could intend that too. She could be crying simply because, even though she had to leave, it's sad to have lost that romantic guy when he turned into that jealous guy. And if that's what the director meant, then I can appreciate the movie a little more.
But either way, I was never quite vibing with this movie. The 90-coins idea seemed weird to begin with, the movie didn't really make a case for her staying with him until the end when we saw the flashbacks and heard the diary entries, and the characters are very generic (although admittedly it's hard to delve much into personality in a 10-minute film).
This movie wanted to take me on an emotional journey, but it just never persuaded me to get on the train.