VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (Woody Allen, 2008)

How must we live? Should we do those things people explect from us or just living according to no rules and being really happy? And, what is love? Is love what people tend to say? Or is it that thing that people will never know because it does not exist? And, are there conventions or standards for love to exist? I mean, can love only occur between two people or are there other possibilities? These questions can be asked after watching this weird movie. Two people who are terribly in love but who cannot live together or just going out together because they hurt each other. Two friends who fall in love with the same guy but they do not know and both have sex with him, even the one who is married. I do not think this movie really has sense but at the same time I think it has all the possible sense that a movie could have. It presents a strange relatioship between a woman, Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz), and a man, Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem),who love each other but who cannot have a normal love story because they always end up killing them.

Then, two friends, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), from NY who go to Barcelona in summer and there they meet a man that seduces them.

As a consequence of this, Cristina falls in love with him but, due to a problem, things do not happen as they had thought and Vicky, who is going to married a young American man, falls in love with him too. From this very moment, everything changes and a story based on lies and non-logical things starts. All the events that take part in this movie may make the spectator wonder about how should we live the life and how should we react to love. Really, is there any rules to follow when talking about feelings? Why don't we just feel, live and let it be?