Often the big strength of telling a love story is that audiences are already familiar with how the story goes. You don’t have to spend time spelling everything out; you can skip the obvious and focus on other things.
Initially Four Years Later seems more interested in the culture clash angle of its tale of a newly married Indian couple together again in Australia after years apart. But looks can be deceiving; this is a sharply insightful look at the nuances of love, relationships, and the way everything else in life can crowd them out.
Anthony Morris is a freelance film and television writer. He’s been a regular contributor to The Big Issue, Empire Magazine, Junkee, Broadsheet, The Wheeler Centre and Forte Magazine, where he’s currently the film editor. Other publications he’s contributed to include Vice, The Vine, Kill Your Darlings (where he was their online film columnist), The Lifted Brow, Urban Walkabout and Spook Magazine. He’s the co-author of hit romantic comedy novel The Hot Guy, and he’s also written some short stories he’d rather you didn’t mention. You can follow him on Twitter @morrbeat and read some of his reviews on the blog It’s Better in the Dark.
