First of all, the axe marks are too heavy, and some metaphors or gestures are deliberately stiff. Take the male lead, for example: the opening scene—while his current girlfriend (Julie Delphy) is dragging his luggage away from him—is not enough of a black-and-white old Don Juan, his name is "Don Johnston". It is also necessary to arrange for others to repeatedly say that he is like a lover Don Juan and so on. The same goes for the teenage daughter of an ex-girlfriend (Sharon Stone): it's not enough to be named Lolita, and it's not enough to dangle in front of the middle-aged male protagonist (also, it is said that the earrings she wears come directly from Kubrick's film), and the male protagonist repeats the name Lolita in particular, saying that this name is really unusual. Secondly, the plot and characters are weak. I don't think there is any in-depth portrayal of the middle-aged prodigal son of the male protagonist (I feel that Bill Murray has not played much), and a chicken woman who is enthusiastic about neighbors and friends (not to mention the exhaustive information search— —Even in this era of the omnipotence of the Internet, it is impossible to find the whereabouts of five unrelated women twenty years ago so easily, right?) It is not convincing that it can prompt him to embark on a journey to visit his ex-girlfriends- - What's more, this neighbor is a black man with five children and three jobs, and he can live next to the hero who has developed a computer, a typical white middle-class suburb with a big house and a big garage? OK, of course I know that this character (and his big family who are so sympathetic to the surface) are meant to be compared to the protagonist who refuses to get married and is alone (oh, yes, Delphy didn't forget to ask when he left, " Why can't you be like them next door?", I'm afraid the audience won't notice the meaning), but this arrangement is too blunt and lazy.
It turned out to be more interesting, instead, it was the actresses who took turns to appear as guest girlfriends, but between meetings and meetings, the scenes explaining the journey often made me feel boring and even cumbersome - and I'm used to watching road movies. The kind of narrative that keeps moving forward without a purpose!
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