This is a mocumentary - or hybrid documentary - about Charlyne Yi who is some sort of comedienne/performance artist/singer-songwriter who says she doesn't believe in love. The movie is ostensibly an exploration of peoples' concept of love and Yi's search for it. She travels around the country doing real, unscripted-ish interviews with Americans who have something to say about love. She also meets actor Michael Cera along the way and falls in love with him sorta.
I think the biggest problem with this is that Yi herself is not a very likable or compelling person. She's almost entirely without personality - which is amazing because we are led to believe that she's does some performance stuff for a living. She speaks without moving her mouth. She hardly ever smiles. I don't care that she says she doesn't believe in love because I can't imagine anyone loving her.
On top of this, I don't get the faux style at all. Why not make a real documentary? Why add scripted stuff in? Why have actors playing real people in the movie (one actor plays director Nicholas Jasenovec)? It all feels like too much concept and not enough meat.
In the end, I think we find out that love is basically in the eye of the beholder... wow! That's original!
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Love is in the eye of the beholder? Well, I like to behold Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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