The One I Love (2014)

Usually romance movies are full of cliche, pretty boring, and besides that as time goes by I'm getting more and more depressed when watching something like this = generally, I avoid it. But sometimes I feel the need for one... although "The One I Love" is quite outside of the classic pattern. Actually, it's more close to a soft "Triangle" what we have here :) as a follow-up on the previous entry, bringing up again the idea of meeting your copy in a more "peaceful" manner, without an axe and without any clear reference to time travel. In brief: less explanation, more speculation. But it works ;)

Ethan and Sophie are a couple whose marriage doesn't work anymore, and they decide to get some counseling on that. Let's call them pair 1. The recommended therapy: a weekend in some vacation house, somewhere in a green area, with an orange garden... but quite secluded. The catch: the vacation house has some special annex... a guest house. Where Ethan meets another, but the same Sophie, and Sophie meets another, but the same Ethan: pair 2. We also have a sort of "meeting protocol" = the rules of the game = Ethan and Sophie in pair 2 take turns with their presence, depending on the other person in pair 1 who steps in; the doors block when somebody in pair 1 enters the house - so you're not allowed to meet your own copy; pair 2 apparently is not permitted to leave the premises. After a romantic night and morning with "the other one" not realizing yet what happens, when they finally do, the first reaction of pair 1: obviously, jump in the car & run away! But they don't get far... because, the meeting worked, "re-discovering" the other one worked, and curiosity for what follows is too big. Decision: turn around, and let's see how this works out...

The bad part of "The One I Love" is that the twist or twists, how many they'd be intended there towards the end of the movie, are predictable. I didn't have any surprise, not even in the last scene of the movie, but I won't say more. Leaving that aside, the idea is original, despite the logic gaps that are even deeper than in "Triangle" (since I was mentioning this) - but if you have enough time to meditate on it you probably can find some explanations (parallel universe theory or whatever else). Overall, what I watched, looked pretty much alike a "Black Mirror" episode, a decent one ;)...

Rating: 3.5 out of 5