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

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

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I feel bad giving this film a star because it was honestly the most mundane film I've ever seen. I kept waiting for it to get interesting but it didn't. Every scene was equally as boring, the storyline was loose at best and the "drama" that surrounded consisted mainly of boring dialogue. I felt that most of the characters lacked any depth and there was no on screen chemistry to speak of. There was little emotion attached to any of the actions of the characters and the really simplistic storyline could be summed up in less than 20 minutes as all the other scenes added very little to the main plot, in fact they added very little to anything. For a romantic comedy, it was neither particularly romantic nor particularly funny. I really felt this film lacked anything worth mentioning.

I found this movie fascinating. I just happened upon it while flipping through the channels and soon became glued to it. I've watched it twice and have been looking for it to purchase. I loved the character study of the main characters: Max, a guy with loose morals and a questionable conscience; Kira, a girl looking for something more in her life--both romantically as well as professionally; Sarah, Max's loving girlfriend who works at helping heroin-addicted schizophrenics; and assorted pseudo-intellectual friends that attempt to understand and/or support their friends. Max dislikes his job working for a senator and questions his conscience for continuing to do so. He's in a three-year-long relationship with Sarah, a decent, respectable person that apparently loves Max despite his failings. Max seems kind of lost, like he's looking for something in his life, but he doesn't know what. He's just kind of going through the motions in life. Then Max meets Kira, a girl that has just broken up with her long-time boyfriend, and the two hook up. Kira's trying to get a copy editing job, a position for which she is apparently overqualified. She left her job of five years after experiencing frustration at being mistaken for the only other black girl in the office. She seems aimless, restless, searching for something that's missing in her life. She even toys with the idea of moving to Italy for a year. Kira hooks up with a couple more guys, none of whom she's at all interested in.Max and Kira have mutual friends and keep ending up on group dates. Kira learns that Max has a girlfriend when they meet again at a bar where an unsuspecting Sarah buys Kira a drink. Max seems more interested in pursuing either another dalliance or some sort of relationship with Kira than Kira is in hooking up with Max again. They're both looking for something missing in their lives, but unsure of what it is they want. SPOILER ALERT: This has one of the saddest endings I've ever seen. Sarah finds a used condom wrapper in Max's bathroom while hunting for bandages to fix up Max's bike injury. She is obviously extremely hurt and you think she's going to break up with the unsuspecting Max, but she doesn't. She just wipes away her tears and goes in the kitchen to bandage Max's wound. Not revealing her true feelings, she starts discussing the tickets they must purchase to fly to Ohio in two weeks. Sarah reminisces about some event they'd shared with Max's family in the past. She remarks that he was undiplomatic towards his mother and this tells you a lot about what kind of a guy Max is as well as how Sarah feels about him. You know Sarah loves Max unconditionally, the way a mother loves a child. She's going to love him and care for him regardless of his somewhat emotional detachment toward her.

"Sorry, Thanks" is an independent film that takes place in San Francisco. The story focuses on two main characters, Max, a loser with a dead-end job and no plans, and Kira, an artist who, according to her friends, settles for less than what she's worth. Kira is in a period of transition, having just gotten out of a long relationship and her old job. She is looking for the next step in her life when she decides on a crap job and has a couple of romantic encounters with the incredibly unappealing Max despite his having a girlfriend who loves him dearly and treats him well. The film is a series of scenes which were, for the most part, completely unnecessary to the plot, or repetitive, driving in the point that Max is a lazy bum with no morals and no motivation, such as the scene at the beginning in which his bearded friend gives him a ride and tells him how lazy his, or when he and a group of friends are eating and they tell him that he has no morals. I felt that the first half of the film could have been removed and the plot would have been more concrete and the characters just as understood.This film was not emotionally appealing in any way, it does not come off as comedic as the director seemed to think, and the acting and cinematography were uncomfortable to watch. The idea, from what director Dia Sokol said in a Q and A, was to put together a film displaying a very normal, everyday existence. The characters based on people that she and others involved on the project knew personally in San Francisco and the title is meant to be something so common that one would normally never think about it. To achieve her goal of creating a nondescript environment, she wanted to keep the movie fairly devoid of chemistry or romance, which she certainly achieved, to negative results. The lack of passion from characters and of a conclusion to the abrupt ending leave this film without any particular intrigue. The viewer isn't made to care much about any of the characters and there is no apparent moral. It simply falls flat.

I'm not quite sure what to make of this film, as I kinda liked it, but also felt it was sort of a waste of time to watch.The story is about a group of post-teens, who doesn't really seem to know what they want with their lives, and go around living just for the sake of living. The protagonist is Max, played by perhaps the only well-known actor in the film at this point, Wiley Wiggins (from "Waking Life" and "Dazed and Confused"-fame). Max unambitiously works as a sort of telephone operator, not really putting much thought nor effort into his job, and frequently comes in late, as a result of him not having a car, and refusing to use public transportation. He has just had a one-night stand with Kira (Kenya Miles), who had just broken up with her boyfriend, and Max can't seem to stop thinking about her, even though he is already in a steady relationship with his long-term girlfriend Sara. Max doesn't seem to be regretting his affair, but at the same time doesn't want to break up with his girlfriend either, so he is going through some emotional issues (or rather, lack thereof) throughout the film, and we follow him around, essentially doing nothing, and then doing more of nothing later. We also follow some of the other characters around, also doing basically nothing too.Even though most of the characters are very shallow, they still belong to this interesting group of goal-less youths, which probably take up more and more of the modern western society today, and because many of us (including myself) belong to this group, the film becomes strangely relevant, despite apparently not really having a goal of its own.So, overall I rate this a 6/10, purely because of the likability-effect that these post-teens have, and because I can identify with many of the issues they face during their everyday lives. But it is probably not a movie I'd consider viewing multiple times, as it doesn't really seem to be going anywhere, with a character-development of basically zero.