I know, I know, this film has been getting panned by everyone and their brother (or sister), mostly because it's got Ashton Kutcher in it, who people don't think is "serious" enough to act well or be in a good movie. I say that judging this movie upon the basis of what the actors have or haven't done in the past is useless and petty. I'd never seen a single thing he was in before, nor did I have any idea what I was getting into as far as plot/storyline/events go beforehand - and it turns out that it was very well done and definitely worth seeing.

This film was great - and it was one of the saddest movies I've ever seen in my life. (I'm not really prone to hyperbole when describing things of this sort, so this is my accurate assessment - I'm not going to say something like that about every movie.) Perhaps I'm susceptible to crying at sad movies (I never was when I was younger, but I've become much more so in the past two years), or perhaps I'm hormonal or something, but I cried over and over at various points throughout this movie. I'm trying to think of something else that affected me so strongly, and the only thing I can think of is the book Sleepers (haven't seen the movie, don't think I want to - it'd ruin the experience of reading the book). Sure, I cried at the end of Moulin Rouge. I also cried at the end of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Vanilla Sky, and Donnie Darko, too—and with most of those I cry every time I see 'em again. None of those had me crying every 5-10 minutes, though, like this movie did tonight.

This is a really well-made, super-saddening film. I'm not doing it justice. Go see it. My eyes hurt.