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"Love's a Bitch" Went to see this movie last night for a school assignment. Enjoyed it. Reminded me of a Mexican Pulp Fiction, but better and more real. Very violent, but tolerable (for me anyway). My friend left after the first five minutes, I'm so glad we came in separate cars. And it was nice that my husband went with me. I think he liked it, too. Never a boring moment in this film. All the characters did a great job of acting, and it was a bonus not knowing them as super stars. It consisted of three separate storys that come together in a car crash. Each story represents the struggle of love within different age and socio-economic groups. Young, middle-aged, and senior, rich and poor all struggle with love. As one commentator put it, "thoughout it, so well crafted, one can mentally fuse all three stories together and see one single character going through the process of fighting for love, realizing what a trivial pursuit it is, abandoning it, and then spending the rest of his life trying to touch it from behind the bars of self-guilt." If you don't have a problem with watching reality through subtitles, this is a must see, and the music was good, too.