I’m looking forward to see another Film with Elgort in it.
Tried plowing through the BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB, but couldn’t really get into it.
Tant pis.
(if you know your Francais)

My apologies Lena. I’m sure my disappointment carried through to the tone of this particular review.

What I am trying to say is I don’t like the arrogant tone of your review and I think you have a lot to learn about just how murky and deep the Human Experience can get before taking such absolute stances as you do in this review.

There is another possible ending meaning: the character who survived was the “third” personality – the one that Dr. Nariman “terminated” when the Hero was nine years old.

Hey there Kev,
Your points are valid. And I understand where you are coming from. You also have read enough of my reviews to know that I am not looking for special effects, or big bang-ness. I really thought this was going to be a great movie for the first third, first half. But when I realized all we had was an internal struggle, and one minor “trick” at the end, it didn’t really hook me. I don’t think I even said this in the review, but I also think that Ansel Elgort, who is a big name star, shows just how hard it is to play two distinctly different characters on the screen. What Happened To Monday is ludicrous, now that I’ve watched a decent star trying just two. Or better yet, J.K. Simmons in Counterpart (that is a fun mind bender I’ll talk about soon enough.)

This thing had all the hope in the world for me. I liked the internal struggle. I liked the low-keyness of it. I enjoyed the technology. This basically is a Black Mirror episode. (He would have had to throw himself off the building to match a Black Mirror ending though!) But it just felt like it was ultimately a weak showing for an experimental flick. And yet, I just gave the movie Still a better rating I think, and it is pretty simple too. Hrm. Maybe it just caught me on a bad day. Hahahah.

You are making me reconsider my rating. Maybe I’ll change it, and also add it to my THiNC. recommendations list just based on your feedback. Which, I’ve never done before. So, kudos to you for making me rethink it. Also, thanks for the tip on the language. I’ll fix that. Thanks Kev.

I have to disagree with you though on the film needing to have a more exciting plot a la What Happened To Monday?. For once, I’m glad to have watched a movie with absolute zero violence either on or off screen, give or take a black eye or slit wrist. The premise alone, coping with MPD by body timeshare, if you will, is fascinating enough that almost any kind of plot will suffice, IMHO.

In any case, I think the film is purposefully set out to play with a low-key, low-stakes tone (that suits the largely charisma-free Baby Driver actor down to a T, I have to say), a tone that is consistent throughout its running time, broken only by those fleeting moments when Jon flips in and out of Jonathan’s consciousness, moments that prove to be doubly jarring as such.

Finally, I think it’s a missed opportunity that Jonathan was learning French (I’m pretty sure it’s not Japanese like you said, ahem) instead of a Scandinavian language, because that would mean a precursor of Jon’s intrusion into Jonathan’s subconscious and the subsequent merger, knowing that Jon has longed for the land of the midnight sun.