Fear of failure and second chances

Enough Said (USA, 2013), directed by Nicole Holofcener, is about to disappear from cinemas. But I didn't want to lose the opportunity of watching one of actor James Gandolfini's last works, who died last year, on the 19th of June.

So I bought a ticket to see a romantic comedy movie in which Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Eva, a divorced masseuse with a daughter who is going to University. The woman is invited to a party in which she meets Marianne, a poet that asks Eva to give her therapeutic massages. After that, Eva is introduced to Albert (Gandolfini), who is also divorced. 

Some days later, Eva has a meeting with Albert and begins to go out with him. Meanwhile, Marianne starts a close friendship with the masseuse and tells her everything she disliked about her exhusband, such as his odd habits or his lack of sense of humor. As time passes, Eva finds out that that man and Albert are the same person. From that moment on, under the influence of Marianne's negative comments about the time she was married to Albert, Eva begins to distrust her feelings.

Enough Said deals with fear of new failures: when Eva meets Albert, she is afraid that the relationship will end the same way that her last marriage. What's more, she is uncomfortable with the idea of living alone now that her daughter is planning to move to another city to study. That is the reason why the masseuse tries to predict whether her new engagement will work and she believes Marianne's gossip about Albert without realizing that these are poisonous comments.

I've liked James Gandolfini's acting (that was the main reason I wanted to watch the film). I am used to see him playing the role of a Mafia boss in TV series The Sopranos and it's interesting discovering him as a sloppy man, who is able to express his feelings and is trying to win a woman's heart

I think that Enough Said is a nice, entertaining, realistic movie. This is a stylistically unpretentious film, but it doesn't need it because it tells a story with a inner conflict which everyone can experience. When life gives us a second chance, what's best? Taking precautions or going with the flow?

Enough Said (USA, 2013). Dir.: Nicole Holofcener. Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Toni Collette, Catherine Keener.

Official website: http://www.enoughsaidmovie.com
 
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