Not going to lie, I skipped this movie several times. I am not into Opera and I didn't find it that interesting. But after a while I thought I would give it a shot. Basically this is about a very successful woman who gives up her successful life to try to be an Opera singer. It is kind of a sports type allegory with her training and then entering one of those star maker contests. She has competition / love interest in her "coach's" only other student, Max, who has been trying for years and is irritated his coach is taking on a new student to compete with him. This movie doesn't suffer from the current trend of tell don't show. The screenplay takes you through the necessary scenes to believe people falling in love.
The only problems I had were that the main character Milly seems to be a Mary Sue for most of the movie. There is nothing she can't be great at and no man who isn't in to her. Perhaps that is so glaring because the main character actress is so overweight and it is disingenuous to act like that doesn't matter in the real world. So no I don't buy her as this high powered fund manager at some big firm in London with a loving boyfriend who is also a high powered fund manager.
I actually didn't have a problem with the relationship because Opera seems like a field where a woman could be larger and everyone would be used to it and the main love story takes place where there is not a single other woman the male character's age... never mind someone who is into Opera like he is. So I can see the love story. The male character is also not fleshed out enough. For a lot of the movie he is odd and you don't really understand how he came to Opera...I thought was going to turn out to be the son of the coach. However the final scene seems to do a lot of fixing of the character.
The only problems I had were that the main character Milly seems to be a Mary Sue for most of the movie. There is nothing she can't be great at and no man who isn't in to her. Perhaps that is so glaring because the main character actress is so overweight and it is disingenuous to act like that doesn't matter in the real world. So no I don't buy her as this high powered fund manager at some big firm in London with a loving boyfriend who is also a high powered fund manager.
I actually didn't have a problem with the relationship because Opera seems like a field where a woman could be larger and everyone would be used to it and the main love story takes place where there is not a single other woman the male character's age... never mind someone who is into Opera like he is. So I can see the love story. The male character is also not fleshed out enough. For a lot of the movie he is odd and you don't really understand how he came to Opera...I thought was going to turn out to be the son of the coach. However the final scene seems to do a lot of fixing of the character.