I need to say this before I review another movie. This movie pissed me off. 

The main character, Frida, was so one-dimensional it was absolutely infuriating and honestly insulting. Doe-eyed, eager, and overly-trusting. Never did she doubt her safety with a man she met for a millisecond at her job. It seemed so unrealistic. 

And the end to this movie? The get-back to this man and his friends, who kidnapped, drugged, and sexually assaulted you and several other women? Her…

didn’t like Japanese people being the backdrop for these two white protagonists, didn’t like the racist jokes, didn’t like the very uncomfortable age gap. thought the movie was pretty and that it encapsulated loneliness well. the world seems to be moving around you and you feel like you aren’t apart of it at all. 

i think it’s deeply engrained in us to feel like romantic partnerships will save us, but those same relationships can have us lonely and deprived. you…