Zoe Kazan acted well. Both leads did. it would be easy to put this movie down but I don't like canning the creative efforts of film makers. There were a lot of good elements to In Your Eyes. But I feel it is a bit over rated. I liked the photography. Americana was depicted well with some nice songs in the music. The payroll officer was good and depicted well. There were a lot of amusing moments and the complication with his old buddies was clever. But the movie reeked too much of idea; though I guess we need "idea" style movies and it is unavoidable. One problem I saw in it was the dabbling in psychiatry that was in it. There were subliminal ideas in it like, mental illness is not quite real and it must be the system that has it wrong. There is also a dangerous notion in there that it is justified not to take the medication some times. In the movie the illusion is real; but I think its a bad idea to dabble in the notion that the voices were real people- a notion that is the crux of the movie. Real people do hear voices and I am supposing that the voices are not real in probably 99 if not 100% of cases. This fantasy made for money made me uncomfortable in that it presents voices in the head as real and that the problem is the field of psychiatry not understanding the real situation. Therefore avoiding the meds may be justifiable. I dunno- it just seems dangerous to me. Its a common myth that the patient has insights that the psychiatrist does not understand. The special insight myth is not true. Visit a psychiatric institution just to understand this. Mental illness is really real. For this reason this seemingly innocuous movie is I think somewhat dangerous. Also the lovemaking scene between the two long distance protagonists is excruciatingly corny. Otherwise it was entertaining enough with quite a lot of amusing scenes.
Review of In Your Eyes
