Please Give

L: I really liked this movie, it is not a feel good movie, but the movie left me feeling positive. the writer focused a lot of attention on the characters's flaws, but was able to make each character sympathetic. This movie deals with the intentions that people have behind their actions, specifically ideas about giving and taking, and the different consequences of those actions (the main character is consumed by guilt from her financial success that is a result of, essentially profitting from the "children of dead people", and tries to give to feel better about herself). The acting was great. The movie was thoughtful and funny.
P: A movie about growing up and getting old in a society based on infantile gratification in its various guises. A movie about the impossibility of community in an exploitative society. Focus on the Family, but in a blue-state, secular humanist way, not a James Dobson, 700 club way. Family and love relationships as the only refuge in a free market society. I feel like there’s more to be said about all this but I’m not up to it just now.