Gigli, 2003

"Gigli" is a very good film that gets its hate from bias, or from the fact that it isn't your typical Hollywood romantic comedy. It's more of an almost philosophical study. The film is quite a nice character study. Director Martin Brest sets the film almost entirely in an apartment, and uses this breed of isolation to give the film some edge. Many critics said this was a flaw, but really, its quite daring. Especially for a Hollywood-produced picture. The dialogue is also very daring and wonderful. Take, for example, a scene in which Larry (Affleck) and Ricki (Lopez) explain their reasons for being straight/gay. The dialogue isn't a bit realistic, no. But the actors make it seem like it is. And every line delivered here is amazingly crucial to figuring out what the film is really about. It's about sexuality and the social outlook on it. "It's turkey time," Ricki says. "Gobble gobble." And follows that up with: "I thought you wanted to be my b*tch." It is dialogue like this in the film that makes it what it is. A truthful, daring, and sometimes self-satirizing examination of masculinity and femininity. Sexual design isn't always as erotic and sensual as portrayed in most of Hollywood's films. Sex is apart of life, and the film is blunt and brilliant in its depictions of that. While the film is seemingly random at times: it all add up to a certain wonderful level of existentialism and in this case – in the meditation of human sexuality. The screenplay is far from dumb. It knows what its doing and knows what it wants to say and succeeds. Most see it as terrible and boring. Is it because its more like an independent film in terms of being very dialogue-heavy? Something tells me, had "Gigli" been an independent film – it may have received a much better reception. But that doesn't matter – because as is - "Gigli" has many, many merits and is far far far from the worst film ever made. I love it!

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