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Film Review: Choose Love

By Nils A. Shapiro By now Cami has film. In the meantime, you should at least have some fun
already looked straight directing the story with your little remote control. It’s an
For this film at me, in front of my interesting twist.
you, the viewer, TV, several times *****
direct the story line asking for help while Second Thoughts: My wife, Linda, who watched
and the ending. on the screen two or the film with me, had her own opinion. She felt that the
three options appear director and screenwriter got the whole thing wrong: It
This is not a great film. for me to click on isn’t Cami who deserves our constant decision-making
It isn’t even a particularly with my TV remote device throughout Choose Love, it’s her faithful boyfriend
good film. In fact, I never control. When she first of three years Paul, an attractive, successful young
got to actually see the spots Jack, should attorney who adores Cami and has surprised her with an
ending! So why have I she approach him or engagement ring and proposal of marriage!
selected it to review for this month’s column? For the walk away? (After What is he doing with a girl who can’t make a decision
same reason I decided to watch it myself when I came all, she is in a serious about anything at all, including the most important one in
across the description of it while browsing on Netflix: an relationship with Paul.) When Paul shows up with an her life – still considering a swarthy high school ex who
identification of Choose Love as the streaming network’s engagement ring, should she accept it as her commitment always looks like he needs a shave, haircut and bath, and
first interactive film, which I immediately – and correctly of marriage? Should Cami quit her job or ask for a raise? has told her he doesn’t ever want to have children … or a
– assumed to mean that I as a viewer would have some When Rex invites Cami to San Francisco to sing with rock star who doesn’t own a home because he is on tour
part to play in what took place on the screen. him at one of his appearances, should she accept or be all year, flown around on his private plane and living in
If nothing else, that sounded interesting enough to honest and explain her relationship with Paul? Cami’s hotels every day and night.
bring the film to the attention of this column’s readers. requests for your help keep coming, so you need to keep Linda would cut the film down to a short feature by
And for someone like me who has never played a video your remote control ready in hand. giving Paul all the decision he needs with just one click
game, the idea sounded like fun. At many points throughout the film the decisions you of the remote control: Forget decision-making for Cami.
It was. For a while. make for Cami determine the path that the film takes from Find someone who deserves you.
We are introduced at the opening to a young, that point on … until the next decision you have to make
twentysomething woman, Cami Conway (a cute Laura … and so on and so on.
Marano) who – apparently unsure about the state of It boggles the mind to imagine the number of script
her career and present relationship of three years with changes and scenes that had to be filmed in order to
boyfriend Paul – is visiting a psychic/fortune teller. Not complete the production of Choose Love.
to worry, she is assured. The tarot cards reveal that, very The problem for me, however, turned out to be a
soon, exciting new love will enter her life. serious one. Since I didn’t select any of the “love choices”
Sure enough, within the next several scenes she comes available to Cami and opted to see all three possibilities
face to face with two prospects: play out (although I did personally prefer one above
Jack (Jordi Webber), an old flame from her high school the others), the version of the film I watched offered no
days – “the one who got away” – who is back in town, ending!
leading protests for humanitarian causes and apparently For a running time that claimed to be one hour and 17
interested in picking up where they left off; and, minutes, I decided after a little over two hours – with no
Rex (Avan Jogra), a British-accented famous rock star way to find an ending to the film – that my best bet was
who shows up to record an album at the Sound Studio to just turn off my TV. Which is what I did.
where Cami works as a recording engineer and takes a I suspect that the Director, Stuart McDonald, and
fancy to her, even inviting her to perform a brief duet Screenwriter Josann McGibbon, want you to give Cami
with him on a record when he learns of her long ago the happy ending they feel she deserves – with one of the
abandoned dream of a singing career. three men. That should work to help find the end to the

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