Hello I Must Be Going (2012)

Sorry, this movie sucks

So much average

Best movie ever!

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Amy (Melanie Lynskey) has left her husband and moved back with her parents (Blythe Danner, John Rubinstein). She is depressed and unmotivated. She can barely get up the will to dress nicely for a dinner party. At the party, she begins an affair with 19 year old Jeremy (Christopher Abbott). She becomes energized as she risks discovery of the inappropriate affair.This is Melanie Lynskey's movie and her best performance ever. As always she is her lovable vulnerable self. But she stretches to encompass the many different emotions of her character. The only problem is the perfectly crafted speeches she gives. It's a thin line between poignant emotional truth and too perfect hokey monologue. Luckily Amy is a middle age character, not the usual emo teen. So I'm willing to go with the former, and buy that she's a lit major. Melanie Lynskey finally returns to a lead role in a movie. And she is amazing in it. I hope she will get more chances at the leading lady role in the future.

I adore Melanie Lynskey as an actress and do believe she was on-point with her performance here, but there's only so much an actor can do with such a clichéd story and script.Playing a recent divorcée, Lynskey plays the all-too-familiar role of the wallflower with no direction, whose complete and utter lack of motivation and sense of self is rescued by meaningless sex with someone she knows will never give her a lasting relationship. It's self- deluded escapism brought upon by a weak resolve and character that ultimately leads her nowhere. At some point she looks at the shallow experience as finding love once again, but the teenager she is sleeping with merely craves the sex and casual pillow talk, never really getting to the meat of who she is as a person.There is a scene where the mother seems unusually cruel and insulting, but thinking about what she said, I agree with her: our protagonist sits around doing nothing but being a leech on her family, capturing the attention of her father at every moment with her selfish behavior. At the end of the movie, she decides to spite her father by running off with her mother, a whole other psychology lesson for another day.I am sure audiences will relate with this: our society isolates us and fosters a lot of depression, and sex is now the most advertised escapism from the pains of life, so why not find some solace in a film that promises us casual sex will lead us to being free from our binds?

i'm not use to writing reviews but hey, this is a really good watch, interesting movie, great cast, i loved it. @ least it's a story we can all relate to, i think Melanie Lynskey Killed it, best role i have ever seen her in. as the movie progress you get captured in the story telling and you can't just wait to see what happens in the next scene, not the kind of movie you'll fall asleep watching. very good acting, and don't expect to see some wild "sex scenes" when i read the plot initially my mind went straight to seeing Melanie Lynskey "wildin out" i know, i know .. but overall the movie is great, I loved it, go see it.

Eight out of ten I'm not sure why this nice little indie wound up with a 4.5 rating on IMDb. It deserves far better. I found the acting very convincing. Amy's a young 30-something woman, recently divorced, seeking solace staying with her parents in a very plosh CT house. Dad's a high-powered attorney dying to retire and tour the world (or so he says at the beginning) and mom is the usual burbs housewife with too much money to know what to do with.Amy's been with them going on several months and trying to piece back her shattered life after her husband left her from a fling. And clearly she's having a lot of trouble at it. At an arranged dinner get-together she joins her parents, brother and wife, and an investor with second wife and step-son (Jeremy) in tow. Jeremy senses a soul as lost as he and doesn't waste time pursuing Amy. The catch is Jeremy's nineteen. But a romance gets going that lights up Amy's fire and that's exactly what she needs. What Jeremy senses in Amy is what he's rebelling against in himself. Her allowing others to control her life and influence how she should live it.Although not spectacularly pretty, Amy (Melanie Lynskey) managers to portray a woman confused about how she can move forward with her life and she displays confusion, humor, courage, resoluteness, messedupness, and yes, love and affection. It helps that she's basically a good person. This is true of her family too. In a more toxic environment she might have failed disastrously. So the challenges facing her, although difficult, could have been made more challenging in a different setting, creating more tension and conflict for her character. Perhaps this is one reason for the low rating. But for the kind of film this one aims at, it does delightfully well.With his deep brooding looks, short dark hair and dark complexion Christopher Abbot reminded me of Marlon Brando as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953). Great to see John Rubinstein. I drew a b&w pencil sketch of his father taken from the cover of one of his albums back when (1961).