One Way Love

A British film set in Britain with a British cast, putting on unconvincing pseudo American accents. The plot is driven by a friendship complicated by unrequited love - as the title suggests.

The main character finds himself in a situation where he is confused. Both by his romantic feelings towards his best friend (who is female)and by his changing feelings towards a work colleague (who he had previously been dating).

This complicated plot didn't benefit from being filmed in a complicated way. If the intention of the film is to say love is confusing, and even more so when the blossoming of it is mixed with the potential blossoming of another love, it never seems to be successful. The film tries to express the difficulties of relying on and expressing deep emotions.

What's more, women are portrayed as fickle two dimensional characters who are ready to bed a sleazy director at the offer of being cast in a movie. One way love makes Hollyoaks look like Citizen Kane. Watching this film made me feel like the two hours would have been better spent in the dentist or maybe gynaecologist or maybe even still having a rectal examination by a butch police woman on route 66.

But, here comes one positive thing..... get ready for it, sit down, make yourself comfortable....

The film was the possibly the most brilliantly awful thing I have ever seen... for this reason it was thought provoking. And that's something at least.

If anyone out there knows of a film made in Mississippi, by some American film students, putting on Scouse accents - point them in the direction of this film and ask them to post their thoughts of it here. That would be interesting, and seeing that just might make me feel better about wasting those two hours. Maybe.