i be put this in here not so much for the purpose of explain or review and but for 1 ) give other hater of guinevere a place to check in and and 2 ) entertain those who love to read negative review of movie they know theyre go to see anyway . poor and pathetic harper and literally hide in the closet at her sister wedding and her hair mussed and her bride maid dress sag off her shoulder . you have obviously mistake me for someone with potential and she barely manage to squeak to the wedding photographer and in one of the multitudinous line of on the nose dialogue in this self conscious and overwrought clunker . somehow this bright and beautiful 20 year old have manage to get through her entire life and include four year of college and without once meet a person who have affirm her intelligence and her creativity and even though she smart enough to have be accept into harvard law . similar irony occur in real life the beauty who think she ugly and the overachiever who think she not do enough but at some point you lose interest in a character who either get some serious personality disorder or whose creator ( the writer ) imagine that weird gesture and speech can take the place of psychology . the beautiful and bright girl prove utterly vulnerable to the seducements of the wedding photographer represent an old and less promising and often insolent and and lecherous man who say thing to her like you can do it and you must learn to detest the bourgeoisie . oh and i do not remember if he actually say those thing and but his utterance be so much hogwash that only an impression of nonsense remain . harper be introduce to . . . coffee house . she listen to . . . jazz . someone actually ask her about her idea for the first ever time in her whole entire life . to go back to the biographical thing and how do this girl ever get the liberal art education require to enter harvard law without someone at least once elicit her opinion on something . and probably admire it . without ever have a lively conversation with intellectual and creative type . without ever laugh . without go through that whole fascinating old man thing about ten time . without get a glimpse outside the world she come from . unlikely and weird scene get slap on and one after the other and without any progress in character or conflict . she throw herself on him hungrily . she move in . he insult her and she run away and she insult him and then come back and they insult each other and reunite . when he at his lowest and she go into a frenzy of take his picture and presumably off a roll of film with about 200 exposure on it . then she get him into focus and relents with a whimper . ultimately and the photog turn out to be every bit as bad a he promise and and perhaps a little good since he principled enough to send her away when it at the point where the relationship can do nothing but drag her down . fast forward to so many year later and she give him the last and only thing she can represent her best wish for a good death . the scene drag on and on and and end with his dissolution into heavenly white light . why . whose story be this . he be the bad man i ever meet . or the best man i ever meet . this ham fisted summary and i suppose and be suppose to be a specimen of brilliant and tortured and complex ambiguity . to me and it a failure to make a stand and an excuse for the writer to dump a truckload of contradiction into a character then sneak away without explain any of it . and why end with him . again i ask and whose story be this . audrey well and youre a fraud .