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One of my all time favorites.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Best movie ever!

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This film tells the story of the love lives of a bunch of individuals in Dublin.It is fun to see a romantic comedy to incorporate both heterosexual, bisexual and homosexual love affairs. It is light hearted funny, but still believable and not outrageous.

It's hard to find anything to criticise about Goldfish Memory, but that's mostly because there's so little of substance in it. The characters are perfectly likable, but too thin for us to have any real emotional investment in. Changeability is the order of the day, but not just in terms of sexuality; characters introduced as commitment-phobes become unwaveringly monogamous overnight, people break up in one scene only to be back together by the next with no real explanation or conversation. The entire film is a whirlwind of plot lines, with new stories picked up and dropped every two minutes, to the point that some stories end up feeling incredibly unfinished and none of the characters ever gets enough attention to feel whole.This isn't necessarily to say that it's a bad film. The constant action makes it quite lively for a romcom. The characters don't get to say much of substance, but when they do the dialogue is convincing and the acting is generally above par. The cinematography is outstanding, with Dublin looking shockingly presentable, and while Damien Rice's "Cold Water" is used just a little too often, by and large the soundtrack is excellent. Most of all, the little moments of attention to detail really sell the film - from the briefly-flashed yet hilarious tabloid headline to the (admittedly painfully product-placed) comfort Phish Food, the movie feels real and the characters become more 3-D than the script would otherwise allow them to be. It feels like, had writer/director Gill actually picked a handful of the 12+ characters whose emotional tribulations are featured and focused on them for an entire film, it could have been brilliant. Instead, it flashed by in what feels like little more than three seconds. Like a Chinese takeaway, you'll enjoy it while it lasts but be hungry for more half an hour after it's gone.Overall, it's definitely worth a watch - as a good example of Irish film-making, as an interesting take on the fluid nature of sexuality, as one of the more enjoyably light-hearted gay interest films out there and even as a solid little film in its own right. Just don't expect much more than some entertaining fluff.

This steaming pile is the reason that there's no Irish Film industry. I swear to you, I have seen better acting in Primary School plays, Sean Campion in particular is atrocious. it speaks volumes that the pinnacle of his career has been Hollyoaks. Absolutely horrid, every line he utters sounds like a Kerrygold commercial.Low-budget or not, this film is also poorly shot and poorly directed, the whole thing looks like an episode of Nationwide. The lighting in particular was awful. Like I said, a low-budget is no excuse for substandard work. Because the whole film relied on natural or available light, light bulbs shine far too brightly as the camera compensates for the darkness of the scene, and it just ends up looking cheap. The creators were also obviously far too proud of composing the shots carefully as they lingered on them for so long. Slow edits, and poxy camera movements that come off as cheap...I mean, they even used that cross-dissolving sex scene gimmick twice... Then they just got trigger-happy with Dutch angles. It really says a lot about this film when it bears one of the hallmarks of the Batman TV-series...There's just so much crap here to sift through, I won't go into the wafer-thin characterisation and the fact that almost every character can become gay. They may be straight for most of the film, but all it takes is a wink and a few drinks and BANG! they're gay! And its not funny. Despite what anyone else here says, its not funny in the slightest, unless you find double-takes and shocked faces funny. I don't. And thats because I'm not 10. Or an idiot. If this is a comedy, then a bebo page is a literary masterpiece. Then again, the bebo generation probably thinks this film is "class"....

I watched this movie about a year ago, and it was totally unexpected movie (in the good sense!). I didn't know what the film was about, and I wasn't sure what to expect about this film, probably I never had the DVD cover on my hands, or had the change to see the film release posters; and nobody recommended it . It deals with unusual facades of the most human demand: LOVE. The film is actually similar to "love actually", although this movie doesn't lose its Irishness. The film is full of interesting dialogs and lovely shots. The film normalizes non-heterosexual relationships, and problematize the condition of humans as love needed. This movie separates the characters from the sexual lives, to assume their social lives. It is an interesting approach!!It is a funny, beautiful and sensible portray of post-modern relationships, full of amnesia, intensity, sophistication, and need of instantaneousness!!!