We all know that films about outsiders can be fun, enchanting and charming, especially if conducted with a sprinkling of wit, warmth and/or dark humour.
Unfortunately, that trailer suggests a film that possesses none of those qualities. It just seems like one big long sulk from start to finish, centered on two characters who're only outsiders because they basically look down their noses at people who aren't outsiders. All in all, it has a quality to it that in my home town of Sheffield is called, "Mardy," and feels like the spiritual equivalent of being hit in the face with a wet dish cloth.
It also has the problem that it's rooted in an American movie mindset, which is that all normal romances are conducted between people who look like film stars and that one conducted by two people who aren't like film stars is therefore an oddity.
The only problem being that, for those of us who live in the real world, a romance between two people who don't look or act like film stars isn't an oddity. It's normal. It's the Hollywood romances that are the oddity. Therefore, a movie about the outsider nature of a romance between two people who aren't like movie stars possibly doesn't seem as intriguing to us as it does to people who make movies.
Anyway, because of its general air of mopeyness, I'm afraid I have to put it on my list of films to avoid.
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