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This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

The acting in this movie is really good.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I am really not sure who this film's target audience is supposed to be.If you take out the bare flesh parts, I would have put this as one of those made-for-TV movies that would be shown on one of those small film channels whose number is way, way down on the PVR. It is Mills and Boon romance that deals with "issues" with a bit of nakedness thrown in for good measure.However if it IS aimed at the teenage boy market, there are going to be a lot of very disappointed young men out there. Whilst all three of the girls are clearly ideally attractive, young, fit people with just-washed hair and white straight teeth, a quick search on the internet is going to be far more fruitful for any voyeurs. The nakedness is not really needed and indeed probably would have been a better film had it not been there.My biggest gripe however is that this has all been done before. The coming- of-age through discovery of one's sexuality and or first love was handled far better more than 25 years earlier in Bilitis and as for the using an animal to compensate for lack of human closeness has been done a thousand times from Kes to Lassie and Flipper! They even throw a bit of "Seize The Day" in there!All very nicely shot but the plot and dialogue is often so clichéd that you are left feeling that someone has just slapped you in the face with a fish to get the point across. REPEATEDLY. Even the ending is predictable.Overall I really felt this was a bit of a waste of both mine and the actor's time.

Something you've always suspected - the craziness of a woman is very well fleshed out in this story about all girls high school.This is a very well produced movie that's both beautiful, and full of good observations at the same time. What's very clear is the deep need in the girls to be loved. But what happens if the environment can't provide that for them ?Emotions and physical needs are difficult to be satiated by reason. But in the interactions, the inherent meanness, and destructiveness that women harbors is also shown. The bitchiness really is part of the psychological makeup.Pauline became the victim of her own womanhood. Not knowing that the best protection is to follow the moral code of the society (but that's difficult to know at such a young age). There's a fine line between a road to safety and road to self destruction, but this movie ends with none of the enlightening insights.Maybe some people are too far gone by the time they reach puberty. It's difficult to hide the deficiency in character if you're in a boarding school. I went to a boarding school, and saw similar problems with women coeds.If only they didn't need such constant reenforcement of being loved ....

Piper Perabo gives an extraordinary performance as she becomes Pauli, using every expressive nuance imaginable to express the full range of Paulie's emotion and spirit. I'm not aware of any better effort by any actor in many MANY years – she's stunning! As Paulie, Piper Perabo puts in one of the most emotionally riveting performances of the past decade. As the lead, she perfectly displays an emotional range that is incredible given her youth. It is amazing to see how she makes each scene and emotion credible, from the highest of joy to the depths of despair and depression. To those who find it a depressing movie – that is true, it's a tragedy no less than Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. It is clear throughout the movie that Paulie and Tori are deeply in love; Tori demonstrates her love right through to the end when she is shaken by the realization that her true love will be no more. I have watched this movie several times, and cry every time. I'm drawn to it because of the exceptional performance by Piper. It is so sad that the movie was released to so few theaters; I believe Piper would have become a Hollywood 'A list' actor had more people seen her amazing performance in L & D!Based on what I have read about Piper, I thought she was a very bright woman in addition to being an exceptional actor. She brings her intelligence, intensity, emotional range and strong physical presence to her characters - - perhaps best exemplified by her role as 'Paulie' in 'Lost and Delirious'. It is too bad that L & D had such a limited theater release because many people did not get to see a truly remarkable performance; I can't help but think that if it had been shown in more theaters that Pipe would be among Hollywood's 'A list' actors. For anyone who thinks she is just another pretty Hollywood face, take a look at this quote from her grad school adviser (she graduated with academic awards): "She is a brilliant young woman, who graduated from Honors Tutorial College (HTC), studying physics, poetry and Latin in her senior year, . . . "What has impressed me the most about "Covert Affairs" is that Piper's intelligence, enthusiasm, energy, and quirky personality come through," he said. . . She didn't learn self-initiative from us, but we sure didn't hold her back"Her coursework was certainly not an easy load, yet she excelled in spite of traveling, sometimes to New York, for auditions.You can check out the complete post at Ohio University - http://www.ohio.edu/compass/stories/ 10-11/12/piper-perabo-golden-globes-2010.cfm

I suspect there are going to be two different reactions to "Lost and Delirious." Some people (most likely teenaged girls) will look past the many faults to find a theme that really resonates within themselves. Others won't be able to move beyond those many problems and will find the film shallow and manipulative. I'm afraid I belong to the latter group.Problem one: Manipulative. At one point in the movie there is a minute long close-up of one of the characters (Pauline) crying while a sad song plays in the background. Five seconds wouldn't do I guess. That is about as manipulative as movie making gets. The movie isn't trying to tell you a story; it is trying to make you cry.Problem two: Really bad plot holes. The movie is set at a girls boarding school and follows the lesbian affair of two of the students there. When the couple breaks up, one of the girls (again Pauline) rather quickly goes off the deep end. She starts exhibiting increasingly erratic and violent behavior. Nobody at the school does anything! The staff just stands around wringing their hands and thinking "Oh dear." Worst of all, as Pauline begins to stalk her former partner, nobody even thinks that it might be a good idea to move the girls out of the same dorm room! "Stalking" and "Violent" yet nobody seems to think separating the two girls might be a prudent idea! What is so ridiculous is that these were very easy plot holes to fix. Why not a 30 second scene of the staff moving Pauline to a different dorm room? No, no. Far better to have a minute long scene of Pauline crying.I suppose if I were younger and had not already seen so many better made movies with a similar theme I might have had a different reaction to "Lost and Delirious." Hmmmm. Let me think. Yes, if I were a teenager I might have given the movie 3 stars instead of only 2.