Outstanding movie! The infrastructure of intellectual intimacy was extremely salient in the story. This movie reminds me of an old movie. Why? Because the code-demands of old movie classics positioned screen writers to use richer dialogue and substantive content for actors to interact with over what we have now with cursing, nudity, and physical violence, which clearly performs like a vapid filler. This movie was well thought out using 5 characters to resolve the issues of acute grief of loss and belonging of the main characters. Some may argue that Rachael's boyfriend was a sixth character, but he neither advanced or obstructed the plot of the main characters. Alan could have been a job or some other commitment. In fact, his voice could have been heard without ever seeing his (pleasant) face. I also noticed that Rachael wasn't ever happy with her fiance' and her disaffinity with him had nothing to do with his frugality or his personhood. He was simply the very best of everything she knew she didn't need. Jake on the other hand was the soulmate she longed for before she ever met him and the writers weaved the perfect moments of space intimacy, dialogue intimacy, intellectual intimacy, and the intimacy of sound and soundlessness to tell a wonderful story.