Blue Valentine (2010)
While watching Blue Valentine I became engrossed in the characters. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams play Dean and Cindy. The movie is divided into past and present. We are shown how the two met and the circumstances that lead up to their marriage. The other half of the film is how they deal with the marriage falling apart. Director Derek Cianfrance does this in increments throughout the film, and he weaves it all together nicely. First off the performances by Gosling and Williams are dead on, and you can see that they really inhabited the characters, and made them their own. The film is 112 minutes and in some way I feel that it goes on a bit too long. I'm not saying I hated it for its length what I didn't like is the pacing of it. It felt a bit too showy for me and that the actors and the director were trying just a bit too hard. In the story the couple have fallen into a rut, and both seem complicit in the marriages demise,...