English Movie : Prime (2005)
Director : Ben Younger
Producer : Suzanne Todd
Cast : Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg
Studio : Universal
Rating : 2 on 5 Stars
Prime is a very slow movie and difficult one to grasp. Also not very sure, why the title is called ‘PRIME’? Anyway, if you happen to be a big fan of Uma Thurman (Kill Bill fame) and Meryl Streep (Devil wears Prada), then you may want to venture out.
It is a movie about a 23 year old young man David (Bryan Greenberg) madly falling in love much older women Rafi (Uma Thurman), age 37, who has just divorced her husband. David finds Rafi very attractive and non-judgmental thus the fatal attraction. Rafi is a modern professional lady who works in Manhattan (NYC) in an Advertising Agency.
Writer – Director Ben Younger has skillfully demonstrated the under-currents of a young Jew male falling in love with an Older Christian lady. Jews in America (by the way, they are White and rich) are like traditional Indian society where emphasis is very much on Academics, Cast or White-collar jobs rather than Sports or Vocation as career options. Our hero in the film, David likes painting which is an odd with his elite family standing including his doctor mother. Interestingly, Meryl is Rafi’s (Uma) therapist who is helping her to come out of divorce depression. Soon she realizes that her own son has fallen in love with her patient Rafi. Naturally, a complex human drama unfolds.
Overall it is a slow and offbeat movie. Even the ending will leave you guessing. I am not very fond of such movies where one has to put too much of brains to understand what the director is trying to hint, so would be conservative here in my ratings. Thus 2 on 5 stars.
May be a better one next time.
Cheers and Best Always,
Manish K. Jaiswal
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