All of Us Strangers

It baffles me seeing people dismiss this film as "another gay drama/tragedy". Adam being gay is important to the story? Absolutely. But the narrative is not only about him being gay. It's also about a person who never really grew up because they never had the chance to; It's about someone who's miserably lonely because they cling too much to the past and can't look forward to the future; it's about dealing with unprocessed trauma and moving on in the modern world. And not only that, it's also very original and masterfully crafted. It's beautiful. It could easily be adapted into a story of the contemporary lonely straight man starring Ryan Gosling and people would lose it.

8/10 great Now this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and this will be for a number of reasons, be it the sexuality or the holding on to the past and love ones that have gone. But this is a very clever and intriguing movie that plays out at its own speed and you just have to go along with it and wait to see where it’s going to end up. I have to say I didn’t see the ending coming and I’m normally very good at this, plus to have the table turned on you twice in the last few moments is ingenious. The very ending, we’re the song tells you the meaning of the whole storyline is again very clever. It’s not a highbrow movie, but you have to be able to think out of the box and to be able to interpret what your seeing and read into what’s being shown to you. As I said this won’t be for everyone, especially those that have to have it spelt out to them. I definitely will revisit this movie in the future and probably will get even more from it the next time round.