The movie ended up being more interesting than I thought. I kind of felt bad for all the men and hoping that they will make it. None of them seems to be a bad person but sure has trouble finding someone closer at home. The documentary is really good at following them, their stories and giving us their thoughts.It is also nice how it shows all the different outcomes that might happen. One simply doesn't meet anyone there. Three get scammed. When it comes to the guy who seemed to love a picture and put too much hope into it I was kind of expecting it to happen. But the other two I felt pretty bad. Especially for the Australian who got married and then she stopped talking to him. Say what you want about him and how he missed clues (we can't really know it as we didn't see their whole communication, just a few minutes), but what kind of a person gets married "to keep the options open"??? Awful woman. And I must say I actually have big respect for him that he tried and that he also confronted her at the end. I hope he found someone in Australia. Just like the other ones who weren't lucky.It shows us two good outcomes. And those are actually pretty happy. One can see that the women are being genuine. Everything can happen after as well, not all marriages succeed but I hope they succeed here.So it was a good documentary showing us all sides of this dating business. As it was said the company has no control over the outcome. Just think about local online dating. How many people you meet and get disappointed. How many do you realize are wrong for you after several dates. Doing it internationally makes it even harder since one has less time to see each other in real life. So of course one can expect that it won't all work out.

* Includes a mild dose of spoilers *As a person who used online dating sites to (try to) meet Russian/Ukrainian women, I can relate to most of the experiences shared in the documentary. I really appreciate the efforts made by the creators of "Love Me" to draw a realistic picture of the "mail order bride" phenomenon. The documentary was able to capture faithfully the experiences of 6 protagonists (and their female counterparts), following them through 9 months (if I did not count wrong).The two sites featured in the film are the major ones in the industry.I am also in the view that the scam/honest women ratio obtained at the end is quite consistent with reality.Overall, this film is objective, entertaining and much interesting.

So essentially, 2 stories end in success in marriage, 3 in failure of scams and 1 guy with no luck in finding anyone there but a relationship develops back home - however suspect face saver.It really takes several viewings to realize that pretty much all of those featured both on the mail and female side and perhaps even the agencies involved contain character positives and flaws that perhaps most if not all of us have or at least other ones.Bobby's experiences highlight the stupidity of using PPL (pay per letter sites) with his $10-12,000 loss and nothing to show for it. While Micheal's experience shows the characters that can lurk on these dating sites for the wrong reasons, frustrating the wishes of men wanting a real serious relationship. Travis's experiences shows the dangers of picking someone up impromptu at random on a tour.Meanwhile, the two other guys shows that meeting someone on tour can turn out well - though an update on all would be good.Leaving Ron who seems to be more akin with the American dating scene, not realizing that 'shaking everyone's hand' will not get him far in the East European scene where the woman probably wondered what the hell is he doing. He tends to fall into analyzing the situation to make sense of it rather than getting involved.The women demonstrate the real wants and needs of legit women wanting family and relationship against scam artists looking for money to support themselves in an economically troubled country - naturally they use what they have, their looks and femininity to help them out.Main thing to take away, is that these guys are looking for what we all want, a happy life and pitfalls in searching for it can happen, nothing is guaranteed for any of us. So its no real shortcoming that some succeed and some fail it seems just sporadic and random chance.

BE WARNED - SPOILERSThis is an excellent exploration of a misunderstood concept. Mail order brides conjures up a lot of stereotypes. This film shows that it's not necessarily what we think it is. It follows 6 men to the Ukraine and shows the very different experiences each man has in trying to find a wife.Of the six, Bobby was perhaps the saddest. His desperation oozed out of him like pus. It was just palpable and he was, perhaps, the most unrealistic of the group. Ron, while being something of a jerk, was realistic. Robert was my favorite because he seemed to be looking for love and was fine with it if it didn't work out. It did in a big way for him though :)Michael - he was a creep through and through and so very unrealistic and delusional, it was almost shocking the lack of self-awareness.The documentary shows both sides of the story - the perspective of the men and the women. It's fascinating and absolutely worth seeing.