Us & Them

Love, youth, adulthood, dreams, goals, and inevitably breakups. Us and Them is a film that reinvents nothing but is proactive in its attempt not to get bogged down in the cliches of misery that these kinds of stories usually deal with when dealing with romantic breakups. I have always believed that romantic relationships that just don't work are an excellent opportunity to grow and learn a lot about yourself, and I like this film for giving me that feeling. Its characters do not wallow in their pain and loneliness for the rest of their lives, and that was a welcome change. Certainly towards the end, it resorts to elements a bit repetitive about how that old flame is still in your head and the inevitable what if? appears, because we understand that life doesn't always go according to plan, but both the story and them recognize that the past is the past, and it has to stay there, but that doesn't mean you can't make peace with it. Nice little film.