The "Blueberry" deliciousness of "My Blueberry Nights"

Being a Wong Kar Wai film fan, I am going to be totally biased in saying that the subtlety of this movie is the star. I love how the characters are so exposed yet so concealed at the same time in each and every scene. It's not until the very last scene (with the most delicious ending ever!) that you're allowed to breathe and take everything in all at once.

It starts out innocently enough with a heartbroken Elizabeth (played with nuance by Norah Jones - yes, THAT Norah Jones) searching for closure from the boyfriend who left her for someone else, and subsequently landing in Jeremy's (played by rakish Jude Law) little cafe. They develop a friendship over her heartbreak and over blueberry pie (thus, the title), and it is at this point that I hope the filmmaker doesn't take it to cliché-land and have the two fall hopelessly in love.

I have no need to fast-forward because before anything ever really develops between the two, Elizabeth goes on a cross-country journey to find herself. And it's on the journey that she meets up with a cache of characters - Rachel Weisz as the emotionally confused Sue Lynne, David Straithairn as the hopelessly-in-love Arnie, Natalie Portman as the balls-out, gutsy Leslie. She realizes then that, "Sometimes we depend on other people as a mirror to define us and tell us who we are, and each reflection makes me like myself a little more." In her search for herself, she discovers what she's really been looking for...

I won't go into what happened and what the ending was; although, I think I probably gave it up in the first paragraph. :p Oh, well. It's still worth a look though. For those who are in love, want to be in love and will be in love. :)