This is one of those movies I wanted to like a whole lot better than I actually did. The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) has a great premise, really good leads in Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Woods, and some really great cinematography.
But the way the story is told, with too much confusion, and not enough surety, undermines the plot and casts the job Thurman does into the crapper, because she can't act her way out of the absurdity of where the script brings her.
Woods plays the younger version of Thurman's character, Diana. Diana survived a Columbine type massacre at her high school, whose anniversary is fast approaching. Ans she is starting to become unravelled. She has a very good life now, but as we flash back into her past, we see she was a trouble maker, and a troubled youth. And we watch as the day of the massacre approaches, to see why Diana as Thurman is losing it in present time so badly.
And it is the present time story that I had trouble with. The script causes Diana to lose it so badly, we can't tell reality from figments of her imagination. And there seems to be no basis for this...this is the 15th anniversary of the massacre...is that a magic number that makes her go bonkers? Have the other anniversaries just caused her a bit of anxiety, but she is fine? Why now? Why this time does she go deep into illusion that she sees total illusions? It just does not make much sense.
There are some good aspects of the story...the past story was really good, and Evan Rachel Woods is a fine actress. I just wich the presnet story could have been more cohesive and made more sense in the story as a whole.
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