USA: +1(669)289-8683 
Sign in
I need the critical review similar to the sample file attached. I need A grade money back guaratnee.
Film“Couples Retreat” Critical Review
a. Event Synopsis and Theme:
1. Synopsis: Give a brief synopsis of the story. What was it about?
This movie was about four couples went to the resort of Eden West for their vacation.
The Jason couple intended to save their marriage in crisis from taking the journey to
the resort. But the rest of the three couples who were convinced by Jason couple to
attend only went for having fun with the recreational programs the resort offered.
Later, all four couples realized the problems in their relationship under the guide of
resort therapists. After going through activities the resort provided for the purpose of
promoting couple relationship and a series of events that challenge the four couples’
relationships, they finally learned how to repair their own problems that endangered
their relationship by expressing their true feelings to their partners and had a happy
ending completed the course of therapy in the resort of Eden.
2. Is the film based on a true story or is it fictional?
This film is based on the problems married couples may face in the real life, so that
audience can feel pretty resonated by the four couples’ situation presented in the film.
3. Theme: What message is the writer trying to communicate to the audience or viewer?
The writer of the film intended to convey the message of the fact that passion to love
can diminish for a married couple after together dealing with a series of realistic
situation like house payment, taking care of children and cases that they may have
started to consider their being together more like for responsibility than for the still
burning love fire. But decreased love should not be ignored and should be considered
by the married couple as a sign to figure out what problems that endanger their
relationship and spend time together on communicating to each other heart-to-heart
and conceiving plans that help arouse their consciousness to love again.
b. Presentation Style: (Provide examples for all your statements/observations)
1. Did the performers utilize any special presentation style?
Most of time performers in the film acted in representational style which we can tell
what message they meant to deliver to audience. For example, four couples’ body
language vividly depicted their different responses to resort therapists’ analysis of the
potential problems they had in their relationship, such as when the David couple
turned to wear an facial expression of shock when they heard the therapist pointed out
the potential problems they didn’t notice before in their marriage. Likewise, the
awkward way another main character Joey acted when seeing a bunch of hot girls
passing by represented what we might see in the real life that’s men’s lust for new
stimulant and attempt to develop a third affair outside a marriage.
2. Did any of the performers stand out? Why? Give examples.
Yes. For me, Joey played by Jon Favreau really stood out because his excellent
performances have done a great portrait of the character Joey who would have been
initially remarked as a lustful mid-aged guy bored with his monotonic marriage but
whose desire and passion to be loved and cared by his wife was later revealed from
his enragement caused by his witness of wife’s cheating and his intense
communication to his wife about his true feelings. For example, the two scene that
featured his hookup with a blonde chick heading off to Eden East resort and his
fantasy about the female massagist’s touch fully reflected his desire to experience the
feeling of falling in love and intimating with someone he hasn’t done with his wife
since they have became so exhausted in dealing with family problems. Every
consequence ensues from its own cause so that the scene Joey expressed his
hormone-flowing desire so explicitly in an almost exaggerating way when he met a
new female can be explained by his strong need to arouse his gradually chilling
passion to love in his body after being staying in marriage filled with stuffy
atmosphere. Thus, both of his and his wife’s change gave a warning to couples who
were satiated with their seemingly harmonious relationship that it is the fact that love
can cool down after a period and action is necessarily to be taken to maintain
happiness in marriage.
3. Were the performances believable and honest? Why? Provide an example.
The performers in this film completely dedicated themselves to constructing a
meaningful and interesting comedy for audience with their skillful and close-to-life
acting styles so that audience were so emotionally affected by the scenes where the
four couples explored their potential problems with each other with the assistance of
therapists and started to dig themselves in a long reconsideration of their relationship
and solutions to problems discovered. It is the fact that the major audience for this
film in the theater were either married couples or couples in love. The emotional part
of the film many times elicited their spontaneous reactions such as sighing, sympathy ,
and sometimes a deep silence for the fact they were reminded of some common
experiences as the four couples’ experiences presented by the film. For example,
when the scene David reunited with his wife and sincerely admitted his still deep
affection to his wife, several couples sitting near me were physically affected by
David’s steadfast commitment to his love through lingering their eyes on their
partners for a long time and intimated each other either by embracing or leaning
against each other to feel their power of love.
c. Directorial Concept:
1. What was the Director’s point of view in presenting this event?
The director views the four couples presented in this film may represent one marriage
in the real life since the couples in real life may experience problems in combination
of what each four couples faced respectively. For example, the jobs, wage, children
concerns the David couple had in this film described the part of marriage life in
which a couple has to shift their time from romance to the realistic problems they
have to get over; the Shane couple’s age gap problem also point out the important to
consider wisely about the consequences to marry or fall in love with younger partner;
And the Joey couple gave an alarm to those outwardly peaceful couples that ignoring
to love as before may endanger the situation of marriage.
2. What was the promise of this production? Was it fulfilled?
This movie was created for both entertainment and enlightment purposes. The
purpose of trying to entertain audience is revealed not only by the introduction of
film’s type as comedy but by some particular ways the director arranged, such as
David’s younger son peed in the toilet on the floor of Home Depot and the
powerpoint presentation Jason couple utilized to explain the reasons for their
consideration of divorce. The film’s entertainment promise is fulfilled because I
witnessed the audience’s laugh out and chuckles in alternation which qualifies the
film as a good comedy. On the part of enlightment, audience has been educated about
the way they should use to fix their relationship in crisis when the director had an
excellent job in affecting audience emotionally with the 4 couples’ transition from the
time of panic when discovering problems to the time of relief and self-discovery for
the reunion with their partners and the communications with which each couple
expressed their true feelings and intentions to recover their relationship. Therefore,
the purpose of enlightment is also fulfilled in this film.
3. What would you have done to improve the event?
If I was the director, I would give more main characters comedy part. Because the
eight main characters play the central role in creating a quality film, and the type of
the film is labeled comedy, the eight characters could develop more on their comedy
part since the audience indeed raised a doubt about the qualification for this movie to
be classified as a comedy when they barely saw the four couples developed their
humors. For example, the scene about their awkward gesture when being forced to
undress showed that they acted kind of rigidly at that current time and forgot the
importance to ease up and use the opportunity of the scene regarded as one of a few
comedy parts in this film to give the audience a sense of humor.
d. Use of Lighting:
1. How was the lighting used within the film or play?
The lighting use in this film was based on different scenes or contents. When the
scenes about couples discussing their realistic problems, the movie screen looked
darker causing audience to sympathize with the experiences characters had. But when
the it shifted to the beautiful views of resort of Eden West, the bright and refreshing
light was used to visually appeal audience with fancy and palace-like resort
environment.
2. What if anything was unusual about the utilization of light or environment?
There is one particular scene that utilized the unusual light to decorate the resort of
Eden East in contrast to the breezy and natural light used for the resort of Eden West
because the director intended to use Eden East as a symbol of lust and indulgence
youths will pursue and a symbol of temptations that challenge the faith of married
couples.
3. Any special use of color?
Just as the striking, glaring light is taken as an important tool to depict the resort of
Eden East as a place full of temptations, the vivid, colorful dancing floor, decorations
of the Eden East and hot energetic young men and women in colorful costumes were
taken important detail to give audience a sense of caution about the outwardly
luxurious and escatasic Eden East.
e. Overall Even Design:
1. Was it the best format to convey the story or idea? Why?
Yes. Film is best format to convey this story because a good story is based on the
combination of different elements such as actors’ acting techniques, sound effects,
lighting, environment and other detailed handling.If that was a play to convey this
story, the actors’ performances may be limited by the stage and some environment
depiction may lack or not give the same effects the film can create with cameras that
give different point of views which refines the presentation with more detail, more
description, and more points audience may not see clearly from a two-dimensional
stage play.
2. What influence did special effects, music, make up, staging/scenery, costumes, have
on the general feeling of the work?
This film discussed and described the serious topic of marriage problems in a relaxing
atmosphere instead of a stuffy way by choosing the beautiful, soothing resort of Eden
as the spot for the expansion of the story, so that the light, breezy music of nature
was played every time when the film moved to the scenery of resort of Eden, and the
environment outside and inside the resort were also embellished to create visual
appeals to audience. For example, guests in the resort of Eden West all wore colorful
costumes matching with natural landscapes around the resort, which made audience
enjoy the movie with very comfortable feelings.
3. What influence did the facility, geographic neighborhood, parking, event staff have
on the general feeling of what you experienced?
The space in which I watched this movie was in a dark room furnished with only
three or four dim light on the side and seated the audience who appeared mostly in
couple. The condition of this environment enabled the audience to concentrate more
and enjoyed the excellent sound effects and appealing colors and scenes presented in
the movie.
f. Most memorable moment:
1. What moment of the event impressed you the most?
The moment that impressed me the most was the part of movie in which the four
couples turned to be concerned about their marriage with the assistance of resort
therapists from their initially relaxed and elated mood to have fun journey together. It
is not hard to see that the director tried to use a twist to give couples warning that they
should reexamine their marriage life for potential problems and take effective actions
to fix the relationship in crisis.
2. Which specific elements were responsible for this affecting moment?
The moment that caused me and the audience to be emotionally affected started with
a peaceful beginning that the four couples’ initially no concerns about their seemingly
sound relationship, and later gave a shot of enlightment that the problems not found
yet doesn’t mean no problems at all when the four couples’ apprehensions increased
as the therapists explicitly pointed out their problems.
3. How did you or the audience express its approval/disapproval of the aspect?
At the beginning, the audience and me had the similar response as the four couples’
shocking response when hearing their own problems. Later, we sympathized by
sighing a lot to approve the fact that every couple may have their own problems, and
a couple even sat closer to each other and held hands tightly as if they will cherish
each other more and figure out solutions right away to solve potential problems.
g. Audience/Personal Response:
1. Did the event or work of art hold your or the audience’s attention throughout?
Yes. This film completely held my and the audience’s attention throughout because
both of us were either emotionally affected by laugh out and sympathized with
characters or physically affected by shaking our body slightly when the music of
nature started to play.
2. What type of audience was the event or work of art geared to appeal to?
This film suits couples or people older than eighteen years old because it did a great
job on giving entertainment (though some scenes involved a little sexual suggestions)
and teaching useful lessons to couples in relationship in a very relaxed atmosphere.
3. Would you recommend the event? To whom and why?
I would definitely recommend this film to my friends older than eighteen years old
and married couples because this film combined light comedy, beautiful landscapes
which entertained the audience a lot with depiction of realistic marriage problems,
weakness of human beings, and faith and commitment of married couples that
involved the topic of ethics. All in all, this movie can be rated as a four star film after
the general consideration of dedicated acting skills, good sound effects, good theme
of marriage problems worthwhile pondering and other detailed ornament the film
utilized.
