Whatever works

Whatever works is the story of Boris Yellnikof,who may be well the ultimate pessimist in the world. So bleak is his outlook that he becomes convinced that suicide is the only option.He spends time teaching chess to kids, publicly humiliating them at every possible opportunity. He is nonetheless a highly knowledgeable man.He is leading a purposefully lonely life after his divorce.
One night he meets a runaway young girl named Melodie St. Anne Celestine.She starts living with him for a while.There starts an impossible romance between the two and they eventually get married. But once the appeal of his intellect has worn off, she starts to realize that she'd rather be happy and dumb than smart and miserable. The film ends with all the characters seizing their one bit of happiness, whatever works for them in this world.
As Boris said "Love despite what they tell u,doesn't conquer all nor does it usually lasts..In the end the romantic aspirations of our youth are reduced to "whatever works"
7/10