Although I only saw the second half of this film, the first thing that pulled me in were the stills of the buildings of Buenos Aires. I love cities, and I find the (still) shots very calming and satisfying. There was a sort of poetry to these shots, showing us angles and points of view we never normally look for, and the soft-voiced narration that accompanied them made me fall in love. It made me realize how little time I spend looking up/around when I'm down town. I got the impression that the characters were very genuine. The actors had a fantastic, very down to earth way of expressing the multiple emotions throughout this film. It wasn't stuffy, and they didn't waste time trying to make themselves look good; they focused on the emotion. I sympathized with them, and it didn't feel strained at all. Even though it was filmed in a different part of the world and in a different language, I believe many aspects of this story are easy to relate to for anyone who has fallen in love, believes in fate, or struggles with barriers (literal and figurative) in their life. There is not a large amount of actual dialogue between characters,which adds to the disconnected feeling of barriers, and is quite refreshing. The script is charming and quirky, with a subtle wit to keep the movie up. It is definitely a film you need to be fully awake for; it is the equivalent of coming across a particularly difficult "Where Is Waldo?". You look over the exact same areas again and again and again, but you keep getting lost in the imagery. Like Mariana, we all find our Waldo one day. Medianeras is an urban fairy tale for people who believe in love. Keep on chanting, those of who bear your hearts on your sleeves. Wear them proudly. This film is dedicated to you.

The movie "Sidewalls" is very different from the movies I usually watch and to be completely honest I'm not sure if I liked it or not. I thought it portrayed real life very accurately; real like is sometimes slow and a bit dull. In real life you go through conflicts caused by others or sometimes the conflicts are within; depression, anxiety, insomnia, loneliness, etc, and I think "Sidewalls" showed that. I would prefer if the movie was in English, mainly because I focused on the dialogue and didn't see some of the detail that was put into a couple shots. However, I thought "Sidewalls" was filmed very well; I personally really like it in movies when there is a voice over with shots that complement what is being said and this movie did that multiple times. I really liked how the two main characters went to the same places, were connected in several ways (the chair, the crosswalk, etc), but they never met until the end of the movie. I think the director wanted this movie to accurately portray reality: mental health issues controlling certain people's lives, how the internet is ruining face to face communication, but can also bring people together, and how everyone, at one time in their life, will feel completely and utterly alone. I think this movie can be directed towards a wide variety; mainly teens-adults. I definitely don't think this movie is appropriate for children because of some of the content and I don't think most elders would like this movie, but besides that I think this movie is targeted to most ages. I think that "Sidewalls" was a movie; it did have some things you could learn from and say was "educationally", but I do think it is more for pleasure. Overall, I do think "Sidewalls" was a good movie; I would suggest it to a friend and may even watch it again myself.

Its maybe strange to title the comment on this way, but this beautiful movie made me exactly that impression. Watching this movie from second grade European country was enlightening thing to do. It show me that on a different continent on different hemisphere on planet Earth, but in a same time, people live with a very same problems as I and my countryman do. Everyone become more and more isolated, people get estranged, while we more and more zip ourselves in our concrete beehives. And a exit from that darkness is simple. We need more light. Not of those artificial but those natural, God given, Sun light. There was a lot symbolic in act of braking a hole in a wall in one movie segment. Best recommendations.

I've read that the director is also an advertiser. His experience helped to capture the great atmosphere in this film. Specially the psychological side of the characters, how they see, think and live their lives, what they are looking for and their personality attributes. Most important of all: this isn't a common romance film, although it's actually pretty ordinary, the filming makes the difference. The symbolism throughout the entire film is nice. It also has some philosophy in it, maybe even some critic as in "modern life brought people closer to the world but further from their own lives." Well, I'd say that after all, what made the difference was the way it was filmed. A seven-rating would be too low, even though I think that eight is way too high. Actually, I'd give 7.5