Similair to the movies such as Crash, 11:14, and Go, The air that I breathe also is told from different points of view.
There are four stories told starting with Happiness (Forest Whitaker) who must find 50,000 dollars so Fingers (Andy Garcia) doesn't cut off his fingers or even kill him. That story was the weakest and the most far fetched but it all ties in very well later on in the movie. Pleasure (Brenden Frasier) surprisingly was my favorite character. This coming from someone who can't stand Frasier's other work. He works for Fingers as he takes his nephew, Tony (Emile Hirsch) out for a good time and showing him the work that his uncle does. Sorrow is next (Sarah Michelle Gellar), as she also works for Fingers as a musician. She struggles to maintain her image and find herself and eventually meets up with Pleasure. Finally there is Love (Kevin Bacon) whose in love with his best friends wife, Gina (Julie Deploy). Something terrible happens to Gina as Lovewill do anything he can to save her life.
After forty-five minutes in the movie picks up and things start to make sense and tie into each other. The whole love, pleasure, Happiness, and sorrow thing doesn't work for me. A lot of cliché phrases are randomly placed such as when Frasier's character tells Whitaker's character that sometimes you have to risk it all. Whitaker does such that and Frasier then says "why the ---- did you do that? Watch this with an open mind and watch it all the way through. It does have a 14% or something on rotten tomatoes and the critics that did like it, will say the same thing. The movie works for me and it payed off to watch it all the way to the end.
My verdict 6.5/10 or B-
There are four stories told starting with Happiness (Forest Whitaker) who must find 50,000 dollars so Fingers (Andy Garcia) doesn't cut off his fingers or even kill him. That story was the weakest and the most far fetched but it all ties in very well later on in the movie. Pleasure (Brenden Frasier) surprisingly was my favorite character. This coming from someone who can't stand Frasier's other work. He works for Fingers as he takes his nephew, Tony (Emile Hirsch) out for a good time and showing him the work that his uncle does. Sorrow is next (Sarah Michelle Gellar), as she also works for Fingers as a musician. She struggles to maintain her image and find herself and eventually meets up with Pleasure. Finally there is Love (Kevin Bacon) whose in love with his best friends wife, Gina (Julie Deploy). Something terrible happens to Gina as Lovewill do anything he can to save her life.
After forty-five minutes in the movie picks up and things start to make sense and tie into each other. The whole love, pleasure, Happiness, and sorrow thing doesn't work for me. A lot of cliché phrases are randomly placed such as when Frasier's character tells Whitaker's character that sometimes you have to risk it all. Whitaker does such that and Frasier then says "why the ---- did you do that? Watch this with an open mind and watch it all the way through. It does have a 14% or something on rotten tomatoes and the critics that did like it, will say the same thing. The movie works for me and it payed off to watch it all the way to the end.
My verdict 6.5/10 or B-