Jeux d'enfants

Watching a quirky French movie is like sucking a lollipop of spinach flavour. The idea is fun, but behind exaggerated, overly-romanticised actions, hides a bittersweet, sometimes serious theme.

Just watched Jeux d'enfants ( Love Me If U Dare)on VCD , a romantic comedy, starting off with a little boy(Julien) and a girl(Sophie) sharing a game of Dare, to add spice to their otherwise unhappy childhood (Julien's mother was dying while Sophie lived with her sister). They would take turn to hold on to a metal tin, whoever has the tin has to take whatever dare the other person issues. As kids, they dared each other into talking vulgarities in class, and peeing in front of the principal, and wreaking havoc in Sophie's sister's wedding etc. Everytime one issuing the dare will ask :" GAME OR NOT GAME?!" and the other one will say:" GAME!" as she/he takes the tin and accepts the dare.

As time passes, their dares become bolder and bolder, more and more fatal, and they seek thrill in the engaging danger and detructive exhilaration of the outrageous dares they have to perform, which has become an escapade from the meaningless rituals of everyday's life.

Things get serious when their 'game' interferes with the responsibilities and obligations that come with adulthood, and since for the whole of their lives it has been a 'game', they find it harder and harder to convey their true emotions. The game which bound them when they were young drives them apart when they are adults.

And after a ten year's dare issued by Sophie for them not to see each other, Julien and Sophie realise that they want the game to continue on, as it has become the strongest bond they share, their wildly imaginative crazy dares borne their equally crazily strong affections for each other.

Can't say much more, except it is really a treat with a bittersweet aftertaste.

I dare u to watch it. GAME OR NOT GAME?

Say GAME! If u dare.