Lirim (what a pretentious name) is upset with how charmed and successful his life is. Don't you feel bad for him? So he decides to devastate life after life in order to find meaning in his own. Then the movie ends.
This movie has essentially four characters in it - the lead, his ex, his current love interest and the friend. Simple enough. The biggest problem is that the lead is the least interesting or likable of all four people. He is very closed off, cynical and is not trustworthy. Meanwhile, the three people who surround him are open, heart-on-sleeve people who don't deserve what happens to them, namely getting entangled with a heartless narcissist who is unable to have true feelings for others.
I blame it on the creator of this film, who not only wrote the story, but directed it and played the lead. He is so wrapped up in this character he created that he can't see how much of a jerk Lirim is and because of all the duties he took on, probably wrote the lead to have less lines to accommodate the directing as well. This means that we don't really get to know Lirim as intimately as we would have had different people took on the different roles. Or maybe the writer/director/actor is himself a heartless narcissist and so can't see his reflection. Either way, the movie is a perfect portrait of self-absorption in an age where I'm tired of self-absorbed people.
This movie is a fail.
