A big part of my movie enjoyment is seeing how a movie is unfolds and the different directions a movie can go. I love it when I can see the director taking the movie in ten different directions. I also love it when a movie stays with me for days because of all of the questions that it raises.

This film is about a couple that is trying to save their failing marriage. Their counselor (freaking Ted Danson!) recommends that they try a weekend retreat to a place where many of his other patients had found success. Sure enough, they get there and there is a record of all of the success stories. And then.... I can't say. What I can say is that it is like no other film I've ever seen and it was amazing. Elisabeth Moss was unbelievable in her "role" and the Duplass Brothers delivered another fantastic film. This is one of my all-time favorite movies.

Some of the complaints about the movie were about the sci-fi angle and the resolution. While this has a touch of sci-fi the sci-fi is really just a tool used to get us to ponder our own relationships. The movie is about questions and thus shouldn't be tidied up at the end.

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A forehead-wrinkling bit of relationship fantasy that'll stick in your teeth for days. I found a lot of thematic similarities between this one and Being John Malkovich. Though it's not nearly so dark and grim about it, The One I Love delights in asking similarly deep, puzzling questions about the root of an unhappy relationship and the sense of futility that's so often associated with mending something so broken.

Of course, like Malkovich, it's also based around a weird, jolting plot device that skirts explanation for its own benefit. The real allure of that vehicle, of course, isn't with the solemn inspection of its construct, it's with the games it plays with the main players. Usually I'm the first to complain when such an elephant is left ignored in the back of the room, but in this case (if you'll excuse the string of metaphors) I think it would be a case of missing the forest for the trees.

It's not perfect - the false-finish is telegraphed and the second act sags at times - but it deserves praise for trying something so fresh, and for evenly exploring both sides of the central relationship. Men will see the movie one way, women will see it another, but both will leave with a better understanding of the other's perspective.

> A unique way to let go of your marriage problems!

This is a slow start, but the second half makes it worth a watch. You better know nothing about the film, just have it and enjoy your time. Because that was the case for me and then I found it a good one. I don't know this director, but Mark Duplass was doing such kind of unique concept small films. So there's no surprise, except I did know I would end up liking it very much.

When it comes to the film theme, kind of resembles 'Coherence'. The whole film revolves around a married couple, except in the beginning. So it is a minimal cast film that is set in a remote place villa. As their therapist's instruction a couple who are on the edge of losing their marriage, tries a weekend getaway to patch the differences. But end up encountering the strange events that pleases them more than what they've expected. When they begin to realise the reality, comes the trouble to fix it once for all.

The third act was amazing. The pace keeps getting better and the tension in the story simply creates enough curiosity about the ending. But the conclusion was very basic and guessable. I liked the honest than too much fancy. Still the viewers look for the answers regarding how it ended which is kind of a wide open for the discussions.

I love modern sci-fi dramas, especially in the last one decade, I have been enjoying them a lot, which are highly intelligent yet casually narrated on the screen that anybody can understand easily. If you had liked films such as 'Coherence', 'Another Earth', 'Her', 'Melanchony' et cetera, then surely would have a good time with it.

7/10