The seeds of violence are planted by a humiliating marital breakdown in Robert Machoian’s thought-provoking thriller
Pain and rage pulse through this superbly made drama about marital breakdown and male humiliation. The tension is cranked up in its shocking first scene, which works cleverly in tandem with the title, but writer-director Robert Machoian is asking us: which two lovers does that mean, exactly? And what should we make of the very last scene? Does it show us acceptance, despair, or both?
David, played by Clayne Crawford, is a married guy in small-town
Utah who had dreams of being a singer-songwriter but now does odd jobs; he is separated from his wife Nikki (Sepideh Moafi), a high-flying lawyer, and their four young children. The couple have apparently agreed that she should have the large family house because the children are happier there with her, so David gets to live like a superannuated kid with his ailing widower dad in his ramshackle childhood home nearby.