Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

GazerRise Fantastic!

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

anniemarshallster The fact that this film is charming and funny shouldn't put you off. The humour is as dry as the best martini. Doctor to Harper: Was your father unhappy? Harper: Noooo - he always whistled at breakfast. Somehow this non sequitur cracks me up. It typifies so much of the dialogue each line of which slides past the other on a slightly different set of tram lines - close but not touching. So if this is Danish humour bring on the Union of Scotland and Denmark. And the women in this film - oh dear, the women. They are all extraordinarily manipulative, in the nicest possible way. Some of them are more desperate than others, their hair giving them away. One of them has devised a very seductive cleaning technique which involves climbing on desks and showing a nice section of leg. Well, whatever works! In the end it's a case of grow up or die and Wilbur makes his choice. I wonder whether Bill Forsyth has seen this movie?

K11 So we start with the "hilarious" premise that the obnoxious smartarse Wilbur (he doesn't really get any better) is continually trying to kill himself. All too quickly we have to divorce ourselves from any semblance of reality. Why has Wilbur not been sectioned? Why does he have a brother called Harbour? (it clicked when I saw that nearly every name related to the production was Danish that it might have been laziness on the writer's part). Without spoiling the plot takes a dramatic turn which should have touched me but is just not handled well enough for me to care. I have no axe to grind with the actors: Shirley Henderson and Adrian Rawlins manage to evince some empathy although Rawlins clearly struggles with the Glaswegian accent. Jamie Sives plays the very unsympathetic title character unsympathetically (incredible for a character who is supposed to be suicidal!). Julia Davis gives us a 2D purely comic tactless nurse that would work well in a sketch show but no a film of this nature.The reassuring thing about a film like this is that it reminds me how good most of the films I see are.

nevbacon Wilbur wants to kill himself is a killer movie. From someone who experiences suicidal ideation and tendencies on a daily basis, but is not depressed or in fear of those concepts, I found the film truthful. It gave me a reason to live, if for nothing else to see the end of the movie, but then again, if I were dead, I doubt that I would care. And that's the point. Wilbur captures a lot of that angst, and confusion.On the one hand he's someone the chicks dig (though I can't really see the 'it' thing that everyone talks about), and though he may know it, he also seems to realize the truest injustice in life: that we live in a world where we are alone and nothing matters and few others see that. Try as we might, it's difficult to find communion of any depth with any other person. Especially if you are a complex person in the least. Meaning, for instance, that if you have an interest in getting out of your small, middle America hometown, you are probably slightly more complex than most of your neighbors. You'll still have people to talk to, but your circle is dwindling.Let's say that you not only want to leave that hometown, but you're gay, well, I don't even have to go into what happens in this case. Suffice it to say, you're more complex than most, even if as a gay man, or lesbian woman you are simple.The thing is that being gay, and wanting to leave a hometown are relatively simple things compared to the person who has a deep, extra-ordinary, thought in their head about the quandary of life.For the purposes of dissecting this film's meaning, this is a person who can (or maybe can't help doing so) look at life and see it as something that really seems to have no purpose.If we have the ability to take that thought seriously, and investigate it for a very long time (dozens of years), without succumbing to the fear (or possibly in most cases, the reality) that it will lead to depression, or insanity, we will become more complex, because we will operate on a different level, and see things as they are. If we do this times ten, which would equate to us being very complex, we question life and its reasons more than just the standard "why are we here" rhetoric, we are likely never to find anyone who can relate to us, and worst of all, to whom we can relate without sensing our own dishonesty with our own self.And though I don't know for certain, it seems to me that this is the point at which Wilbur may have arrived. He also may not have. However, this characterization captures the real-life feeling of being in that state of knowing the purposelessness, and realizing that there are no answers in 'real' life that will suffice any longer, ever again. Realizing that ice cream doesn't make kids happy, balloons don't make kids happy, cars don't make adults happy. All of that simply serves to distract (in the form of conditioned responses) from the fact that we are raised as if on a farm to be automatons. When a person is at that point, the people with whom they connect are indeed rare.Everyone is familiar with the clichés about how many people there are for each person on the earth. For instance one says, "There's someone for everyone." Some people believe that. Some will say that for each person there are multiple possible partners, and for those people that's probably true. For some there are infinite partners. I guess in part it depends upon a person's underlying unconscious goals.For those for whom there can only be connection based on something truly undefined, to my satisfaction, by media and the like, there may be only one other person anywhere, or not at all, to whom they can relate. So, why live in a world where the process is the same everyday: get up, go to a silly job that serves some other bastard and his family but that we must take seriously in some way, come home, eat things (mostly out of habit), sleep, awake and do it all again. To top it all off, never ever meet a person that can see you. Never ever meet a person that even wants to see you. Never meet a person that acknowledges and knows true beauty in the form in which you bring it to this world.Why? Because they don't have the capacity, and you were never taught to look, you were only taught to take what is right in front of you. Wilbur might seem selfish, but I think that Wilbur might be sick of being judged based on some silly sexuality archetype that he carries because of habit, rather than real desire for it. Wilbur, like most of us, wants to be loved for who he is, by someone who does not judge him. I mean Wilbur's not sleeping around in this movie. So, obviously, he's looking for a connection that has more to do with something other than sex. There is a time when sex is just sex. There is a time when sex is procreative and therefore construed to be for love. Procreation does not always mean love.Best of all, there is also a time when sex is communion with another. A communion that transcends our own incarnations in bodies. It communicates, in concert with another, the confusion, the narcissism, the energetic component, the mechanical component, all while "listening" to another tell a similar story. At that point it is, for lack of a better conceptualization, art bonding souls. And there is no better reason to live or to choose to not live, than to be in proximity to the truth available in that possibility.

jpschapira Impressing; what the title proposes, I mean. You can't really expect anything certain with a title like that when you haven't heard about the film or its theme before. The United Kingdom has some good cinema, made with all the effort by people that, with movies like this one, get the shot they wait during their whole lives.Lone Scherfig, a Danish director and Anders Thomas Jensen, his writing partner, have accomplished an original fable about life; love, relationships, family and, well…Death. The tagline proposes: "The life he wanted to end, was just about to begin", in reference to Wilbur (Jamie Sives), who, when we first meet him, has just tried to kill himself."It gets more and more humiliating every time I try to do it and I fail", Wilbur tells his older brother Harbour (Adrian Rawlins), as they get out of the hospital. Both of their parents died, but Wilbur suffered his mother's death. He felt it differently and his parents loved him, probably more than they loved his brother.They are different persons. Harbour loves Wilbur and wants to take care of him. They have a bookshop and Wilbur doesn't care about t, but Harbour does. He maintains them both and tries to prevent Wilbur from achieving his only goal: end with his life.One of the magical ideas the movie has is that it won't let that happen. With a beautifully constructed screenplay, the authors and creators put a woman in the brothers' lives; Alice (Shirley Henderson). Harbour meets her first, and tells his brother about her hair and her smile. Wilbur meets her, then, as she saves his life when he was trying to…Soon, Harbour and Alice fall in love, and she moves in with them, alongside her daughter.They all seem happy until Wilbur tries it again, so we can meet very realistic characters, as Dr. Horst (Mads Mikkelsen), a psychiatrist with a good heart that's only trying to help, and some women that like Wilbur. But Wilbur doesn't see women, at least not until his brother ends up in the hospital, and he "meets" Alice. We understand the flames of love they feel for each other because the film has made the characters sympathetic until this moment.It's these three people story what turns around, and the performances. I'll try to catch Jamie Sives entire filmography. He is so natural and warm; with that innocent face and look that hides great acting qualities. Adrian Rawlins is very quiet but expressive at the same time, in the correct moments. He's just there as any normal people, without trying to call attention…Just waiting for the moment. The familiar face of Shirley Henderson is a big surprise. Shining in a role between to men, as the only girl…You got to have the presence.It goes like this. For Harbour, it is happiness he never felt, and you can tell because of how he sounds when he says "I'm going home with my wife and daughter". He lives for them. For Alice is the place she couldn't have; a safe home and company she was missing probably.And for Wilbur it is rediscovering a life he gave for done; it's feeling again…In the wrong circumstances and place, yes, but feeling; and the only thing life ask from us is that we thank her for being in the world, because there's nothing more beautiful than being alive. Well there's probably one thing, but that's life itself.