Review of The Secret Life of Words

I was quite disappointed in this film and the characters in it. Sarah Polley's accent was strange and she was often hard to understand. Tim Robbin's hardly looked injured I failed to see why he could not be airlifted from the rig. The quirky oil rig characters did little to add to the story. I never felt Hannah and Josef's relationship had any real foundation. His line about 'learning to swim' at the end of the film drew groans from the entire audience which I think is rather telling. Again, to establish what tenuous connection the two of them had simply took too long to then be wrapped up neatly at the end. And for a man who had recently declared his love for another woman, it was unbelievable. Another unusual and unnecessary addition was that of Hannah's child who spoke at the beginning and end of the film and was peculiar.