What If It Works?

2017, how was this 2017?

The way mental illness is depicted in this lemon is staggering. Luke Ford's portrayal of OCD should be offensive to ALL. Also Melbourne looks like a dirty place.

This film explores the development of a relationship between a young women with many personalities and a young man with compulsive disorders. It is unusual, funny, sad, and beautifully filmed in the lane ways of Melbourne. A lovely film and so proud to have it premiered here in Bunbury Western Australia through CinefestOz

Exciting bursting color, well placed movement, music enhance the visual delight of this film in inner urban settings.

Modern life, chaos, beauty, challenge, different ways of being.

Romi Trower and her talented Crew have given us a gift, a sweet wonder of a film speaking to us about love, pain and discovery. Adrian (Luke Ford)takes us with him on his journey. We care, we want Adrian to succeed. We want to understand. Grace (Anna Samson) brings her character to us in a reality we begin to comprehend as the film unfolds. The marvelous Cast Actors support and enhance our understanding with empathy, subtle, generous acting.

Dr Di Scaala(Karen Fairfax) works as a sensitive device to allow us to engage in the challenges our heroes face in their quest.

Didn't want the film to end, there was much to see, enjoy, learn, contemplate and at the same time, entertain.

The mark of a good film? It leaves you with something. "What if it works" leaves you with so much. You'll always remember this film.

This film tells the story of a man with OCD and a woman with multiple personality disorder.

There's always a danger of making fun of psychiatric issues in a comedy dealing with psychiatry. Fortunately, this film treads the fine line well, and delivers laughs without being insensitive. It even tells the pain of having such mental health problems, and the stress of being a carer. It is a delightful romantic comedy, and I enjoyed watching it.

There are some sweet moments and powerful acting sequences, but they are few.

There is still a warmth that culminates in a cliché ending that makes an aussie film worth the watch and I enjoy all romances, but in comparison to other films in its genre this piece was without much depth.

Hate to be overly critical but when you make to it the screen you're competing with the big players whether you have budget or not, the viewers expectations is the commercial reality.

Having that many personality disorders is a fairly fresh concept, that could have been worked through more.

The worst part is for us that have been in the system and seen these disorders up close.....it's not the stuff that entertaining movies are made of....to say the least.

And of course the elephant in the room is that its a pale imitation of Silver Linings who direct traffic which much more subtlety and grace.

Curious to know if the drag queens were slipped in there for diversity sake? The ethnic video dance guy did not push the story forward in anyway but was merely a hook to bring them back into the final Act. A real waste of story telling space.

The female lead could do great justice to something similar, hope to see it tried again.

On a side note, Netflix is really giving us a plethora of B grade movies, don't upscale ratings based on the feel good vibe of your hometown or that you liked an actor in other roles. Everyone's time is too valuable to not share the truth.