Mickey Sabbat
May 2003
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I found this film the most satisfying and entertaining romantic drama I've seen in quite some time. Which is quite a compliment because I don't especially like the genre. There's a reason this movie earned such rave reviews at Sundance last year.
Dopamine-- the neurotransmitter responsible for our experience of love and pleasure-- functions as the film's leitmotif. Almost novelistic in its attention to detail, its artistic symmetry, and depth of character, Dopamine explores the mysteries of human connection, largely through an incipient romance between two people, each for their very own reasons, dubious and leery of love's promise.
The movie, at a few unfortunate moments, descends into bathos and is further marred by some extraneous, undeveloped plot lines that seem artificial, appendages designed to expand a short into feature length. Still, for a first-time film maker the movie is an impressive accomplishment.
Of course it's DVD Screener so the video and audio quality speaks for itself. Would that all releases enjoyed this clarity and resolution.
Hey, Jack, you toady for the grasping, rapacious animals who run Hollywood: I'd have paid to watch this movie, you myopic prick, if you'd made it available to me.
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