One Way Love

A British film set in Britain with a British cast, putting on unconvincing pseudo American accents. The plot is driven by a friendship complicated by unrequited love - as the title suggests.

The main character finds himself in a situation where he is confused. Both by his romantic feelings towards his best friend (who is female)and by his changing feelings towards a work colleague (who he had previously been dating).

This complicated plot didn't benefit from being filmed in a complicated way. If the intention of the film is to say love is confusing, and even more so when the blossoming of it is mixed with the potential blossoming of another love, it never seems to be successful. The film tries to express the difficulties of relying on and expressing deep emotions.

What's more, women are portrayed as fickle two dimensional characters who are ready to bed a sleazy director at the offer of being cast in a movie. One way love makes Hollyoaks look like Citizen Kane. Watching this film made me feel like the two hours would have been better spent in the dentist or maybe gynaecologist or maybe even still having a rectal examination by a butch police woman on route 66.

But, here comes one positive thing..... get ready for it, sit down, make yourself comfortable....

The film was the possibly the most brilliantly awful thing I have ever seen... for this reason it was thought provoking. And that's something at least.

If anyone out there knows of a film made in Mississippi, by some American film students, putting on Scouse accents - point them in the direction of this film and ask them to post their thoughts of it here. That would be interesting, and seeing that just might make me feel better about wasting those two hours. Maybe.

Okay, I get it. Boy meets Girl, Boy Likes Girl and Boy is confused on why he likes the wrong Girl or was it the right girl that wronged Him...I'm confused.

And that's my point; The thing that shines in this British film is how the writer positioned 'Love' as a stand alone, complicated entity that is difficult to comprehend.

Many films have their formulas that make them work for a broad audience; in this case the viewer gets taken for a 2 hour ride inside the quicksand of an emotion called love. Yes, love is confusing and this film exemplifies how difficult it is to try and capture that on the screen. If the film had a cast of your usual actors (Morris Chestnut, Eddie Murphy, Wil Smith, Nia Long, etc.,) it would have been a moderate success here in the US.

This British film showcases the untapped market for ethnic-oriented films that showcase stories about people of color form places other that the United States. While this film may have it's problems, I look forward to seeing other works from this writer, director.

Finally, someone whom has seen the film and slightly understood it. I'm gonna assume this person, leyla attended the London screening of my film. Yes, I'm the writer/director of this guerrilla made mess.

Unfortunately the Q&A was interrupted by a 40 ft elephant so I was not able to explain myself.

Love is indeed confusing. And sometimes people can get lost in that. The main character was like any one of us whom find themselves chasing straws everyday because of the tethers of hope we desperately seek as unrequited lovers. Does she like me? Will she love me tomorrow? If I stay just one more day... But by doing this, we miss the opportunities of love all around us by any, and I do mean anybody else.

Now, making a film for less than a bean is gonna have its problems. I'm not gonna discuss accents, although I thought Mississippi scousers was funny. But I would ask Leyla, if the person would grace my presence again to answer whether they thought the lighting and composition of shots were worth the time. What about the urban soundtrack. A lot goes into making a full length feature film.

I'm not gonna defend my film at the end of the day because I'm glad I made it. i know it has its plot holes. I know the accent route was wrong but I wanted to do a story that I felt was topical and undone.

Lastly, I also felt the female characters were indeed fleshed out. We saw into their minds and felt their pain of loneliness. True, they were promiscuous characters dealing with past abuse and uncertain vanities but I thought they were also given their due. The girl did throw the director out of her house.

Not like I had that experience and all.

Thank you for your viewpoint.

Chase