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You Are Alone (2007) DVD Review
You Are Alone (2007) DVD Credits:
You Are Alone (2007) Directed by:
Gorman Bechard
You Are Alone (2007) Written by:
Not available at this time
You Are Alone (2007) Cast:
Jessica Bohl, Richard Brundage, Keith Herron, Eric Deskin, Bruce Koken
You Are Alone (2007) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
You Are Alone (2007) DVD Release Date:
27th February 2007
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You Are Alone (2007) Synopsis:

"We're gonna play a game of Snap! Pick a bracelet. Pull it hard!" But it's a game of desperate consequences in YOU ARE ALONE, a dark exploration of just how far a man and a woman will go to escape loneliness, if only for an hour. Daphne, a Yale-bound high school senior whose depression has blurred her sense of reality, works as an escort, advertising her services online. It's a little bit of a "f***-you" that helps get her through the day, until her next door neighbor catches her as the "entertainment" at his nephew's bachelor party. With her hidden life precariously hanging in the balance, Daphne agrees to spend one hour with her neighbor. Initially confrontational, Daphne and her neighbor begin to shed their bitter layers of personal disappointment and general cynicism by talking about sex. It's eye-opening for her neighbor: BBBJs, dining at the Y, salad tossing, and, of course, Snap! But behind this teenager's jaded fantasies hides the very essence of heartbreak, acceptance, need, and desire...ironically paralleled by a broken man's desperate attempts to test the limits of her advertised promise to do anything and everything.

You Are Alone (2007) DVD Review:

Loneliness is a popular theme for films lately, or maybe just human suffering in general. You Are Alone is a cheaply made melodrama about two very lonely people. Daphne (Jessica Bohl) is a schoolgirl, who also takes advantage of her age by working as a school-girl themed call girl. When her lonely neighbor (Richard Brundage) sees her at a bachelor party he begins to fantasize about her until they have an encounter in a hotel one day.

There are moments of the script which are casually fantastic dialogue about the suffering of human loneliness at any age, but there are too many deviations into sexual perversion which detracts from a simple and profound theme. The direction is sometimes terribly obvious, especially when we see each of the two characters crying alone in a bathroom. It may be simple imagery, but it is so obvious that it begins to reek of a student film. The actors try their best, but unfortunately much of the film can feel like a filmed stage play performed at a local community playhouse.

There are many long scenes of dialogue as Daphne and her neighbor get to know each other in the hotel room, making the pacing feel a great deal like a stage play. Throughout the film there is one long scene with Daphne’s first encounter with her neighbor alone in a hotel room, and she slowly disrobes throughout their time in the room, making it more difficult for him to walk away. There are random sequences thrown in to break this one extended scene up, but it all comes down to being about a man’s final decision with a young girl who is more than willing to kill his loneliness with sex for a short while. Some of the dialogue in this bedroom scene is really well written, although often butchered by actors who try and often fail to meet the expectations with sincerity intact.

Although there are so many problems with the film, there also happen to be some sincerely honest moments and a great soundtrack. This may not be enough for everyone to justify some extreme melodrama, but these moments of truth were enough to keep me thoroughly engaged.

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You Are Alone (2007) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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