Review of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) by Christopher P — 17 Dec 2012

I definitely had a hard time rating this film. After seeing it on Netflix, I was intrigued by the title so I watched it. In all, I think I enjoyed this peculiar movie, but I'm still quite not sure.

The basic plot is that a woman is interviewing men on their fears and their desires, in relation to feminism. This is one of those movies that the scenes go back and forth so the audience doesn't exactly know what's going on. I'm sure most people were pretty confused, but I thought the structure of the movie made for a unique experience. In fact, I thought that was the highlight of the entire film. There are many actors and actresses in this film, and I thought that Krasinski did a good job in utilizing all of their acting abilities through quirky characters.

I didn't know this film was based on a book, so I can't write anything in comparison to that, but I did feel like a lot of the dialogue said in this movie would have been better read on paper than said aloud. Overall, I think the movie is worth watching, not for trying to get something out of it, but just to have an interesting experience, if that makes any sense...