I've decided that I dislike movies about relationships that try to reveal to you the raw reality of relationships, and that present you a cast of a few very generalized, almost-stereotypical characters... one or more of with whom you're supposed to identify.

You may vaguely or closely identify with one or more characters in such a movie... but when it's over, whether or not you got anything worthwhile out of the movie, you continue to question which one of those characters' lives most resembles yours or doesn't, why you took sides with certain characters and not with others, etc. Then you resent feeling compelled to compare/contrast who you are with the characters in the movie... especially when the characters aren't that savory or admirable, and when they've all got issues that you have already dealt with in your own life or not, or have been trying to avoid... and in reality, neither you nor most of people you know, with whom you have relationships, are much like the supposedly realistic characters in supposedly realistic relationships...

Some relationships, like a lot of people, are totally "cookie-cutter" or typical and predictable... or are easily replicable on screen. But not the kind I'm intertested in exploring. Make me a movie that presents relevant characters in some clearly unique types of relationships that work or don't work... and maybe I'll learn a thing or two.

(I just saw the movie Charlotte Sometimes. Note: mention of this movie is not a recommendation.)