Love and Distrust (2010)

Simply Perfect

A lot of fun.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I think this might be the biggest piece of crap I have ever watched in my life! Now, while I didn't have to pay to watch it (checked out from the library) I would like my 95 min back! Such a waste of time! I can't believe they got all those A-listers to be in that piece of crap video! Wow! The stories were so disjointed. I thought surely they would connect all the little stories by the end or something. Or if the stories had all been from a different decade (that is what I thought would be the deal when the first story started in 1969) that may have given it something, but no that wasn't the case. There is no redeeming quality at all to this movie. It was just so disjointed and weird. Sorry to say.

While I agree wholeheartedly with most reviewers in that this is a terrible excuse for a film, none of them seem to have clocked what I suspected about halfway through the 3rd segment; it was never meant to be a film at all. Each is a standalone short made with nothing to do with the others whatsoever, and they were made up to 10 years apart (the Robert Downey Jnr one was made in 2000, the Robert Pattinson one in 2009, and others in 2004 and 2006 I think). Which does rather suggest that whoever made the decision to edit them together into one was doing so simply to be able to put so many big names on one DVD box, but (rightly or otherwise) suspecting people would be put off by having to call it a collection of unconnected shorts, so trying to hide the fact that that's what it is. I can only hope it failed to sell, otherwise this kind of trick could carry on for as long as stars or future stars make short films with probably no rights at all over what's done with them years later.

"Love & Distrust" suffers from a problem that most independent films would love to have: too much star power. Starring Robert Pattinson, Sam Worthington, James Franco, Amy Adams and Robert Downey, Jr, people seem to be expecting a cross of "Twilight" meets "Avatar" meets "Spider-Man" meets "Enchanted" meets "Iron Man". Expectations are way out of whack. A film with that kind of mix would be even worse than "Love & Distrust".What "Love & Distrust" really is, is a compilation of 5 unrelated short films in the vein of something like "Coffee and Cigarettes" (2003). The vignettes have nothing in common except that they are all supposed to show the various elements associated with love, like: obsession, mistrust, and seduction. The second major problem of the film is that the 15-minute vignettes are drawn out with short-lived characters and obtuse lessons on love."Love & Distrust" may be slow, boring and arguably meaningless, and I probably know more about love than its stars. But it's a conceptual look at the variations of love and trust that hasn't been explored in quite this way and I appreciate their attempt at least.

I can't even call this a real film. It disturbed me that this was allowed to become a movie. Worst movie ever and I'm being nice. Robert Pattison had about 20 seconds of film time. James Franco was good but his character made no sense. The "tales" were stupid and made no sense at all. It's like hearing a story from a friend about his friends but you know nothing about them. Complete waste of time. At least it was a free viewing. Please i am saving you time and money. Do not watch this "film" you will be completely disappointed. None of any part of the film had anything to do with the rest of the film. And all the titles at the beginning just confused me. Was the director. producer, and writer maybe drugged when they thought this up?