Wristcutters: A Love Story
Wristcutters: A Love Story
R | 19 October 2007 (USA)
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Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.

Reviews
Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
tomas-nt So I never wrote a review before, but I just felt I needed to write one for this film. I have to say that I'm generally very critical about comedies because they seem to me just stupid and the stories are too often absolutely void of any meaning. I usually don't like comedies. In fact, I'm usually too critical about any kind of movie. I'm too critical about people around me. I'm too critical about life in general. I'm too critical about anything at all. And that's part of the reason why I needed to watch this so badly. I tend to appreciate films and art in general that seem powerful, tragic, dramatic, that capture the depth and tragic beauty of life and existence. This film is the absolute opposite in a way and yet it reached much deeper. The whole ambient of the film is very good. It's very relaxed, very careless, and leaves you in a great mood and happy about what you have. In a way, it reminds me of the Big Lebowski. It reminded me in a very heartfelt way that life isn't about achieving, winning or loosing, it's not so much about the moments of sudden change (like death, or a separation, or the loss of a loved one) which we usually overvalue, but a lot more about the nice moments which we overlook - the in between. The film is an in between moment. The characters are in some kind of quest. But the way it's shown to you makes you realize that in no way the final point of the quest is in any way more important than the moments in between. I absolutely loved the ambient and the characters. They're just enough to the crazy side and just enough down to earth. Also, the way some parts of the plot seem to make not so much sense or are a bit absurd just adds up to the nice carefree feeling. And obviously also the way that death or the afterlife is portrayed. I know I'm giving an absolutely personal and subjective perspective of the film. But I felt I should say this because this film just reminded me or even made me realize that life isn't really a tragedy in a moment when I most needed that. Watch this if you need to feel good (: I loved it. 9/10 (which I don't give easily and is the maximum I've ever given)
leomilan Although the movie starts off in a slow weird way, once you watched through you'll learn to like the characters and love their friendship. WristCutters is worth watching.Despite it's box office earnings "wrist cutters" is fun and takes the audience on an adventure through the dreary afterlife in search for Zia's love. The acting is good and the story is excellent for a low budget movie. WristCutters is not long and has just the right amount of "funny" leaving you wanting more.If you like dark comedies, romance and friendship you should without a doubt see WristCutters.
Sergeant_Tibbs It's a shame that the only original thing going for this film is the concept. Granted, it is a great and fascinating concept - a tedious desolate purgatory for victims of suicide but told in a quirky way. Fortunately all the ideas and jokes that we have heard a hundred times in other films are solid and work in a unique way due to the concept, though I wouldn't say it was particularly special. Despite the easy to grab fruit for drama, it does focus on its comedy values and follows comedy formats and clichés. It goes from a buddy movie, to a road movie to a manic pixie dream girl movie, where the protagonist meets a girl who goes against all the rules and they fall in love, the dramatic irony of which is that he meets the girl during his search for his ex-girlfriend - a relationship that never felt real in the first place.It did take a long time for the actual story to develop but once it did, it was rather predictable as to where it was going and there wasn't much drive in it. Fortunately it does has a little creative spark in the third act by showing what happens to those who belong to mass suicide cults. I was begging for a twist in the story but that will do as a substitute. Granted, it is a very low budget film and it does quite show, if just through what kind of perspective they take to suicide, often comedically flashing back to reality to show how a random character committed suicide. I wasn't a fan of it at first but it grew on me. The cinematography reminds me of 90s British cinema with Danny Boyle and Mike Leigh's work, but sometimes it is too old for its own good. It blunts all the emotions it attempts to achieve. It's simply not intimate enough for me to feel the characters beyond the clichés they represent.Most of the performances feel miscast or half-hearted or too forced (some of the accents are dire). Patrick Fugit in particular feels insincere and too awkward. There are some delightful cameos though, with the colourful Tom Waits as a highlight and Will Arnett, Nick Offerman and Mark Boone Junior too. The characters don't feel developed enough at all to be satisfying. However, in the evitable scene where the protagonist falls in love with the girl he travels with on his journey to find his ex-girlfriend, their bonding does feel genuine which is nice to see. The best part of the film is certainly the great soundtrack, built off of musicians who have also committed suicide among others. While it isn't too brave throughout, the ending went from really good, to irredeemably bad and then back to great which is quite impressive in its own right. Despite its flaws and missed opportunities, Wristcutters is a sweet little indie flick that's worth watching.7/10
Roland E. Zwick The clever and imaginative comedy "Wristcutters: A Love Story," written and directed by Goran Dukic, takes place in a world populated entirely by people who've committed suicide, a land that has everything the live world has to offer, apparently, except a sky full of stars and cell phone reception. And, oh yea, there's a black hole under the passenger seat of the rusted-out orange station wagon our intrepid characters are riding in. These include Zia (Patrick Fugit), who slashed his wrists after he broke up with his girlfriend, Desiree (Leslie Bibb), and Eugene (Shea Whigham), a Russian guitarist who electrocuted himself on stage in front of a particularly unappreciative audience. Together, they go on a road trip through the desert in search of Desiree, who apparently offed herself not long after Zia did. The two pick up a hitchhiker, Mikal (Shannyn Sossamon), the victim of a fatal overdose, who joins them in their quest.The irony of this wry and offbeat little journey into surrealism is that, while the premise may be all about death, the movie itself is actually a celebration of life and of all the unique and wonderful things that are contained therein - the heartache and the joy, the friendships and the rivalries, and, above all, the chance to make things right again if you just hang in there and persevere through all the obstacles and rough patches that life is bound and determined to throw at you.And the ending is about as life-affirming as any movie about suicide could ever hope to be.