Men, Women and Children (2014)

In my personal opinion I think that Men, Women & Children is a great film, the film's plot is about how the internet affects people's lives, however I would go further and say that the film is about how technology altogether affects people's lives, because throughout the film you see people using their mobile phones to text people and using computers to play games like Guild Wars 2, as well as people using technology to access the internet, what the film is trying to tell the audience is that technology can affect people in many different ways, like cyber bullying on mobile phones can damage people mentally, playing addictive games like Guild Wars 2 can make people lose their intentions of the real world, and preventing your child from pretty much doing anything on the internet can make your child feel imprisoned (and the list goes on), so I feel that the plot itself is fantastic, what is also fantastic is the acting and the direction, I feel that in this movie Jason Reitman manages to get the best out of the film's actors and actresses, especially Adam Sandler because in this movie he doesn't play as some generic comedian trying to make everyone laugh (which in the critics point of view he doesn't, but I think he's funny), he actually plays as a serious character who isn't there to make the audience laugh, he is actually there to make the audience feel emotion for him (in some cases, as at times he makes really bad choices), I also think that Ansel Elgort is really good in this film as well, as he is the most conflicted character in this film because he is the character who is having the most trouble with life and the internet, and I feel that Ansel Elgort portrays that character really well, Emma Thompson does really good narration throughout the film, so much so that at points I felt like I was watching a movie version of "The Stanley Parable", because at points Emma Thompson describes what the characters are doing (just like in "The Stanley Parable"), and to me that is not a bad thing, I really liked the soundtrack as well, and I liked seeing things like texts popping up from people's mobile phones when they have sent a text, and seeing what people are looking at on the internet in the background behind the person or on the side of the person (so that means sometimes you didn't have to look at the computer monitor to see what people were looking at), and all that kind of stuff, however I did come across a couple of issues whilst I was watching this film, one major flaw and one minor flaw, firstly I will talk about the minor flaw and that is at times the film seems to drag on, this doesn't occur frequently but when it does you can really feel it dragging on, now on to the major flaw (and I have to be discreet about this flaw) there is a story behind Adam Sandler's character and his family which is quite problematic, it is problematic because the story involves frequent scenes of rude content (both verbally and visually) as the backdrop for Adam Sandler's story is that his relationship with his wife is affected by rude websites that he looks at, and the wife looking at dating websites because she is bored, and I have to confess that the frequency of this content is very problematic and at times uncomfortable, but otherwise I think that Men, Women & Children is a great film which gets it's acting, direction, soundtrack, and attention to detail all in the right places, but fails with the huge frequency of rude content which was completely irrelevant and unnecessary, and it's slow speed which occurred every now and again, but I will still give Men, Women & Children an 8 out of 10.