Cazzie David and Elisa Kalani are behind “I Love You Forever,” a twisted look at toxic relationships that premiered at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival.
—when you text non-stop but never actually see each other—and you’re ready to go on an actual in-person date. You throw together a fashionable fit, but you sweat through the shirt and have to redo it. You can’t stop. Does your breath smell? Does your hair look bad? At a certain point, everything is settled, so you make one giant leap for singlekind and step out your front door. You head to the restaurant, or the movie theater, or wherever the first date is. You feel hot.
And that person you’ve been texting non-stop all week? They're a manipulative jerk. You did all this for nothing.Mackenzie, a twentysomething law student, begins the film with a pretty lame dating resumé: She’s had a friends-with-benefits situation set up for the past two years, but this guy can’t even be bothered to grab her a glass of water when she’s thirsty. He sends her a meme a week.
The red flags arrive early, and they’re not subtle. Finn flies Mackenzie around the world to meet him at reporting destinations—since when have journalists had this type of budget?—and showers her with gifts, praise, and other delights that could easily be classified as “love bombing.
If that is the goal, as sad as it may be, then it is successful; this is a feel-bad movie. Even with two nepo babies of wildly successful writers/actors involved, however,isn’t gripping or poignant enough to stick the landing. You can only watch a grotesque man commit atrocities for a short period of time before the shtick becomes too upsetting to continue.
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