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Four Eyed Monsters

Four glittering eyes, two pink mouths, and eight limbs wrapped around itself taking up two seats on the subway.

2005 · 1h 11m · N/A Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by Susan Buice , Arin Crumley

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Overview

Apathy, technology, paranoia, disease and medication. Meet Arin. Arin is a shy videographer who finds it too much to handle to go out and meet girls, so he sets up an account on meester.net. The flood of responses never comes, save for one email from Susan, a struggling artist who finds her job as a waitress stifling her creativity. Susan is also on the shy side and is seeking an alternative to the classic dating situation. When Arin and Susan finally meet, that alternative dating situation comes to life as the two refuse to communicate verbally with each other, wanting to avoid bs small talk.

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80%
Tomatometer
Fresh

While some audience members will dismiss it as so much navel-gazing, those closer to their 20s should appreciate how the movie speaks to a generation whose most intimate communications routinely come through the Internet.

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
Fresh

This innovative chronicle of a truly modern romance conveys, in a painful, darkly humorous way, a variety of ultra-identifiable truths.

Laura Kern, New York Times
Fresh

Fascinating if overly self-involved Slamdance entry is among the few U.S. pics that deliberately smudges the line between non-fiction and invention.

Robert Koehler, Variety
Fresh

This diaristic relationship drama by New York video artist Arin Crumley and animator Susan Buice is so playful and imaginative that only at the very end... does its narcissism become off-putting.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh

A fresh, witty, and contemporary take on the perennial boy-meets-girl story.

Caroline Palmer, Village Voice

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