I stumbled across the title "Next Stop Wonderland" in the TV Guide and recalled seeing it years ago, though I remembered little of the actual film. Unfortunately after seeing it once again on streaming I am a little disappointed. I was hoping for something better, more fully developed and realized, but the film is serviceable as an Indie film -- not great, not terrible in my opinion, so 5/10 rating. I don't know if you can even call this a Rom Com as there is so little interaction between the two main players (not until the final scene). I feel like this entire film is just the first act of a bigger story which is sadly underdeveloped or untold. There could have be so much more to this film, but sadly many plot threads are undeveloped and there is too little interactions between some characters. The female lead is a very typically entitled young female who is so bored and unimpressed with her many suitors; it grows tiresome for us the audience too though. And the interjection of the Brazilian theme is odd but not terrible. I think the film is supposed to be taken like a poem -- something ambiguous, oblique, and suggestive which can be absorbed and savored. But like a lot of poetry it can be subjective and hard to digest and distill. Though there does seem to be some focus (not theme as it's too unclear) on aloneness, aloofness, and fate (or lack thereof) and aging and careers. I will not give a blanket recommendation on this one, it's really dependent upon one's tastes. Oh, and I deducted a point for the weak camera work which is sort of documentary style.
Review of Next Stop Wonderland
