Last Night (2010) is a movie for bohemian people, for those who appreciate details, for those willing to think about the message the movie is trying to send and about its connection with reality. It's both an emotional and intellectual experience. The director (Massy Tadjedin) explores the thin line between loyalty and infidelity in such manner that, by the end of the movie, one will have to ask themselves: What's worse? Emotional or physical infidelity?
The movie is about modern love between a New York couple (what else?): Joanna (Keira Knightley) and Michael (Sam Worthington) seem to be happily married until one evening. Joanna gets jealous on Sam's beautiful coworker Laura (Eva Mendes), whom she didn't know. As a coincidence, the two have to leave on a business trip the next day and Joanna, home alone, meets the seductive French writer Alex (Guillaume Canet), a former lover. The conversations both in New York and Philly are meaningful, flirty and teasing. Therefore, the events from "Last Night" will determine the character's lives in a follow-up which we can only imagine since the ending leaves us hanging.
On the abstract side, can we confirm the saying that "men can physically cheat without changing their feelings towards their girlfriends, while women can resist temptation, but when it comes to their feelings, everything changes"?
What is the meaning of adultery, besides sex? Is there another meaning, at all? Are diversity and novelty just stronger than the stable things in one's life? Is it a game? Do(n't) words matter?
The movie touches also the matter from the perspective of 'the other woman'. Laura, despite her perfect body and face, admits having been cheated on, knows her place and is well aware of the situation. She is the kind that does things and then fixes them along the way, who states that life is a succession of moments, and that one has to steal some and take maximum advantage. She turns out to be upfront, with flaws, but not mean.
Regarding emotional infidelity, there is probably no one who hadn't thought of someone else, who hadn't dreamed of someone else, even when in a relationship. Emotional infidelity is, therefore, an imagination exercise, a way of getting out of real life. On the other side, if feelings change, the whole grounds of the relationship change.
Though the ending is open to interpretation, it's quite hard to come up with a verdict on the film's subject, because most of us live in the grey area, not just in white and black.
Other than that, the New York apartment we crave, Clint Mansell's extraordinary soundtrack and the charismatic actors are all elements that build a movie more or less light, but one that instigates a reevaluation of a too common phenomenon in relationships.
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