“The oddest thing about Savages, the new Oliver Stone movie, is the central love triangle. Ophelia (Blake Lively) lives and sleeps with two men: the war veteran Choan (Taylor Kitsch) and Ben the Buddhist botanist (Aaron Johnson). In the film’s first 10 minutes, she has steamy sex with both guys –and nobody minds. The trio’s laissez faire attitude reminded me of an Amy Bloom short story, in which a mother confesses to her daughter that she has a lover whom her husband accepts, saying “Love is not a pie.” In other words, love is not a zero sum game, with a finite number of slices to eat.”
