Words, The : Movie Review


"The Words" is a film that has plenty of things to say—about the power of great writing; the touchy relationship between honesty and art; the common human yearning to make something of oneself and the fear that we will never be good enough—but makes a fatal error about how to say them. In trying to establish their points, writer-directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal pile no less than three time frames and three different realities on top of what should have been a fairly simple but incisive character drama. By overcomplicating the narrative, the picture's aforementioned thematic musings are strangled to death by a suffocating dollop of contrivance. After a while, the viewer begrudgingly stops caring.

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