LAST NIGHT (2010)

Last Night is a drama movie released on 2011 which is starred by Keira Knightley, French top actor Guillaume Canet, Sam Worthington and Eva Mendes. This movie has not attracted much audience as well as good critics since its premiere. It doesn’t deliver a beautiful yet strange atmosphere from a deep, surrealist relationship of two different kinds in Swedish’ Let The Right One In. While both movies take set in urban modern life, Last Night also doesn’t wrap up in a bittersweet surprising ending as remarkable ‘500 Days of Summer’ has.  Yet with its storyline centered on chronicles of love and attraction beyond morals and commitment, this movie somehow succeeds to touch the emotional side of the audiences with its own realistic depiction of opposite-sex relationship. Some of them may even get drifted away to their own love stories, one that assumed had dissolved completely with the journey of time. Apparently, some past love rejuvenate vividly as this movie unfolds its story, revealing the exact same experience of a young energetic married woman in her third year lifeless marriage life. An incidental encounter with a former lover took her back to her younger life, her old dream, and critical choice she had made. Spending hours together in a night made them realize the fact that they were still in love with the person who share the same passion in writing and observing the world. The chemistry between them was irreplaceable with other people they had been involved with. The universe seemed to conspire while at the same time his husband inevitably attracted to his partner in work, a smart and sexy career woman who had her arms open to the possibility of cheating when they had to be out of town together for a work meeting. It is clearly seen that both cases and the women involved were unequivocal one to another. Sudden physical attraction emerges when someone has intensively spending much time together for 3 months with an attractive person, while deep intimate bond connects people with their warm and magnetic personality. Both women were charming, smart and beautiful, but the married female writer colored her friendships with sincerity and intimacy, people would miss her if she’d gone, while the career woman was seductive, and wild, too wild that she would easily catch a man to enter her hotel bedroom in a night but would make men who love more intimacy and depth in emotional connection uninterested. When lust takes over too early, that’s when the relationship is ruined.

An incidental encounter with a former lover took her back to her younger life, her old dream, and critical choice she had made.

This movie brings much of thoughts in relationship and marriage which choice of it someone makes could determine the rest of his or her life in the future.  Moments of conversations and gestures are strong point to understand what this movie is all about. Some audiences might consider this movie as an empty box if they don’t try enough to see details the film maker has given through the story. Last Night even opened up a chance for the characters to make another choice that will change the rest of their life. But at the end of the story, everything stays, the ship managed to survive through the big wave, at least for the near future. This movie is stimulating rather than giving a conclusive statement. The audiences who have tied the knot and have the same situation might want to ask themselves of their current relationship. How do they endure to the vow, share their whole life to their partner, and bring the hope and happiness back to their own lifeless ship? Or do they believe they have to get off the sail to live up their dream, be it alone or with someone else? Or is it enough to take the life as it is now? For the unsettled ones, loose up yourself from seriousness and enjoy the summer breeze from the irresistible Knightley and Canet. Their amazing chemistry sure will make you miss this movie.