Ayoade on Top

by Richard Ayoade

The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.

Paradise lost by John Milton

In the romantic comedy, a man, let’s call him Brad, neglects his family for his career, with the inevitable estrangement that follows, only to realise, late in the third act, that his family comes before everything.

We applaud both her dogged grit and the film’s message: that there are some people who, despite shutting everyone out of their lives in order to achieve their goals, can repair the untold damage they’ve wreaked by making a small admission of culpability late in Act III, followed by a declaration of love.