The Office film group, now down to just five people, went to see Friends With Benefits.
We don't choose the film until a majority vote when we get to the multiplex, which makes for some dud choices, but also some unexpected gems.
Friends With Benefits was an unexpected gem.
Written by Keith Merryman, David A. Newman, Will Gluck and Harley Peyton. Directed by Will Gluck. Starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis.
Full of explicit anatomical references, the film seems to be about the absurdity of the carnal act. The dialogue is funny, and the acting is well-timed. Visually the New York sequences are superb (the Malibu ones less so, and in any case only extremely wealthy people can afford to live in Malibu).
The magazine offices were not messy enough.
On a cultural level the film achieves importance simply because of all the contemporary references it manages to pack into every shot. In a way it is comparable to Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned (but with a happy ending, and without pushing the comparison too far). The year 2011 looks glossy and glamorous in this film.
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