Film review: Cha Cha Real Smooth
The many kinds of love.
Andrew is 22 and has graduated from college and is back living at home in New Jersey with his mother, his step father, and his younger brother, David. Andrew is working at a fast food restaurant during the day and starts his own business as a party host at Bar Mitzvahs while he continues to look for his real life’s work..
This is an Indie film focused on character development and subtle emotional conflicts created by the different kinds of love between the characters. There is the love between the mother and her son, between her son and his brother, between a student and a teacher, between romantic partners, between a depressed divorced woman and a second husband to be.
Andrew tells Domino, an older woman he has fallen in love with who is engaged to be married to Joe, that people can love several kindred spirits in their life. The problem is you can’t form a long term committed relationship with them all. To form a long term committed relationship involves other factors than just romantic love. The attachment and loss of relationships as part of the ebb and flow of life is depicted with grace in such a way as to bestow a blessing on the viewer.
Watching this movie for full benefit takes openness and patience to appreciate its meanings. There are things that are funny and things that are sad but the takeaway understanding of love in human relationships is genuine and wise. The viewer will be a better person after watching this film.