While some audience members will dismiss it as so much navel-gazing, those closer to their 20s should appreciate how the movie speaks to a generation whose most intimate communications routinely come through the Internet.
Four Eyed Monsters
Four glittering eyes, two pink mouths, and eight limbs wrapped around itself taking up two seats on the subway.
2005 · 1h 11m · N/A
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by
Susan Buice
,
Arin Crumley
Overview
Apathy, technology, paranoia, disease and medication. Meet Arin. Arin is a shy videographer who finds it too much to handle to go out and meet girls, so he sets up an account on meester.net. The flood of responses never comes, save for one email from Susan, a struggling artist who finds her job as a waitress stifling her creativity. Susan is also on the shy side and is seeking an alternative to the classic dating situation. When Arin and Susan finally meet, that alternative dating situation comes to life as the two refuse to communicate verbally with each other, wanting to avoid bs small talk.
Director and cast
- Susan Buice Director
- Arin Crumley Director
- Susan Buice as Susan
- Arin Crumley as Arin
- Brad Calcaterra as Studio Vermont founder
- Lindsey Andersen as Couple on subway
- Julia Ann Ames as Laundromat Fantasy Girl
- Yuan-Kwan Chan as Model
- Lucie Cuadrado as Attractive woman in street
- Aubrey Plaza as Girl on subway
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
This innovative chronicle of a truly modern romance conveys, in a painful, darkly humorous way, a variety of ultra-identifiable truths.
Fascinating if overly self-involved Slamdance entry is among the few U.S. pics that deliberately smudges the line between non-fiction and invention.
This diaristic relationship drama by New York video artist Arin Crumley and animator Susan Buice is so playful and imaginative that only at the very end... does its narcissism become off-putting.
A fresh, witty, and contemporary take on the perennial boy-meets-girl story.
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