So I never wrote a review before, but I just felt I needed to write one for this film. I have to say that I'm generally very critical about comedies because they seem to me just stupid and the stories are too often absolutely void of any meaning. I usually don't like comedies. In fact, I'm usually too critical about any kind of movie. I'm too critical about people around me. I'm too critical about life in general. I'm too critical about anything at all. And that's part of the reason why I needed to watch this so badly. I tend to appreciate films and art in general that seem powerful, tragic, dramatic, that capture the depth and tragic beauty of life and existence. This film is the absolute opposite in a way and yet it reached much deeper. The whole ambient of the film is very good. It's very relaxed, very careless, and leaves you in a great mood and happy about what you have. In a way, it reminds me of the Big Lebowski. It reminded me in a very heartfelt way that life isn't about achieving, winning or loosing, it's not so much about the moments of sudden change (like death, or a separation, or the loss of a loved one) which we usually overvalue, but a lot more about the nice moments which we overlook - the in between. The film is an in between moment. The characters are in some kind of quest. But the way it's shown to you makes you realize that in no way the final point of the quest is in any way more important than the moments in between. I absolutely loved the ambient and the characters. They're just enough to the crazy side and just enough down to earth. Also, the way some parts of the plot seem to make not so much sense or are a bit absurd just adds up to the nice carefree feeling. And obviously also the way that death or the afterlife is portrayed. I know I'm giving an absolutely personal and subjective perspective of the film. But I felt I should say this because this film just reminded me or even made me realize that life isn't really a tragedy in a moment when I most needed that. Watch this if you need to feel good (: I loved it. 9/10 (which I don't give easily and is the maximum I've ever given)

I really gave this movie a chance, but bottom line there is only one word to describe it: ridiculous. The story is ridiculous - and don't get me wrong, I appreciate simple or strange stories and settings, but this movie hardly has the quality of "Straight story" or a Jarmusch film and the like. It is just a painfully boring and meaningless journey, despite the serious/relevant premise, with no real point/destination and no fun ride getting there(wherever that is). Beside the unsatisfactory story a main flaw of the movie is the cast: Eugene is just lacking any charisma (I would have expected/could have imagined someone like Joseph Gilgun, he would have been fun) and the dumbest casting decision: Leslie Bibb and Shannon Sossamon. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy beauty wherever it shows, and if this was a movie about Studio 54 or the battles in the model business, they would have been perfect, but in a movie with such an important issue/an important premise, set as a story about an (because it concerns) everybody (and Patrick Fugit is a perfect cast, he is an everybody, do not get me wrong (again), I am not saying he isn't cute, he is a great actor (one of the best- and we got one less after the incredibly tragic death of Anton Yelchin - and he has tons of talent and charisma, but he is not crazy handsome, and this is good/perfect for the movie, but) in such a movie you cannot cast ridiculously beautiful women - it destroys all that is left of credibility and charm that this story could have had/should have had. The female cast (and I love Leslie Bibb, but not in this role) does not fit the topic, does not fit the story and does not fit the male lead - but the male decision makers are too superficial to see this, machismo all over again. This movie is no Indie gem, it is a sell-out - shame on you!

Story displays elevating affirmation of life and underdogs will to find in motion what was lost in crossing over. Introductory scene's purpose was to give us the image of Zia's chaotic life. We can see his ''break on through to the other side''. After he offed himself, he is transferred to the parallel world: A line which preface action both in the film and short story reveals a dreary and melancholic setting: ''Everything is the same here, it's just a little worse''.''And as we're crossing border after border, We realize that difference is none'' - just like the Gogol Bordello's song says, this analogous world isn't so different from the alive one. A movie can be classified as a road movie because they spent the greater part of time driving over desolate, meandering countryside. Eugene's car has broken headlights which cannot be fixed and that is reason why they cannot drive at night. Also, there is a hole underneath the seat and Eugene is angry when Zia drops his sunglasses in it. ''Anything that goes around that car seat is lost forever.''Whole paragraphs of texts were transferred from story to screenplay, but the director Goran Dukić dared to change crucial thing, the ending. The director gave it a totally altered felicitous note by ending it differently. He used down the rabbit hole in Eugene's car to rejoin Zia and Mikal, so not all things which vanished in whole were lost. Kneller, who turns out to be Person In Charge steals Zia's file. At the end of the movie we can see Zia waking up in the hospital and the Mikal is lying next to his bed smiling each other, so we don't know whether whole this underground trip was a part of the coma. It is MacGuffin effect; the director leaves the decision to us. Melancholic mood was complemented with good background musicIt is one of those masterpieces which you like because they are so weird and probably no one knows about them so You can have them just for yourself. It is a low budget movie, but it transmits high hopes.

The film begins with our hero; a good looking, 20-something guy, named Zia, waking up in his flat finding it trashed and so he decides to clean it. And thus, the credits start to roll. In the subsequent 3 minutes of screen time, Zia has cleaned up his apartment quite satisfactorily and then, he retires to the bathroom committing suicide. The moment Zia cut his wrist, I knew this is going to be one of those out-of-the-box indie films that never gets old or famous.The movie is basically about 3 people on a road journey through the wastelands of somewhere-out-there. Add a defunct, mysterious car to that and some philosophical questions about life, death and love and bam...you have "Wristcutters: A Love Story".Needless to say the best part of this beautiful, inspiring movie is Eugene (Shea Whigham). This actor is a genius. A near to perfect representation of a ungodly Russian man who only loves beer and his mother. Then we have another brilliantly portrayed love-plot between Zia (Patrick Fugit) and Mikal (Shannyn Sossamon). Moreover the supporting characters and the way they switched-it-off are a treat to watch. Not to forget the unlikely, unreal quests of Zia and Mikal.The film is based on a subject that could've lead to numerous moral, religious and scientific questions but the way Director-Writer Goran Dukić has picturised is undoubtedly a commendable effort. Wish to see more feature films from this intellectual.