And to do so in a way that - more than any other regular-schmoe-snags-an-awesome-babe story has ever been able to do before - lets Evan know that he is so so so soooooo very special. In an otherwise intriguing science-fiction concept, one that is at least tenable enough to allow for the suspension of disbelief during the course of the story, this bit about the oxytocin isnвЂ™t merely ridiculous: itвЂ™s a clear contrivance on the part of screenwriter Justin Benson to create some concrete proof of LouiseвЂ™s falling-in-love with Evan.

All it requires is that she fall in love with him, because oxytocin, the so-called love hormone, will interfere with the process. She scoffs, of course, but he keeps pestering her: Why canвЂ™t they be together after her regeneration? His pestering gets worse after he learns that she can turn off her superpower and live a normal life after one final renewal.

He has convinced himself that even though he and Louise have only known each other for a few days, she is the love of his life. She explains this to Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci), the guy she sleeps with in order to gather sperm to facilitate the renewal process. The horror part comes in how, as the 20-year-cycle is ending, signaling that itвЂ™s time to renew, her body starts to briefly erupt into other life forms from humanityвЂ™s evolutionary past, so there are temporary tentacles and so on. Louise is 2,000 years old but forever young. But she retains all her memories and her personality. In effect, her new self - though retaining the form of a young adult - is the daughter of her old self and whatever dude she chose to accept some sperm from.

But Spring is special in that it brings a new sci-fi-horror element to the storyвЂ¦ one that makes it even more enraging that these male-ego-stroking romantic-wish-fulfillment stories usually are.ДЄbout halfway through the film, and after a few subtle hints that there is something strange about Louise (Nadia Hilker), we learn that she is an evolutionary anomaly: Every 20 years, she renews her body via a regeneration process that incorporates genetic contributions from a man. This is, in many aspects, a tediously familiar story, one weвЂ™ve seen numerous times onscreen. Spring is the story of an ordinary, uninteresting young man who somehow - we never know how - convinces an amazing, extraordinary woman to fall in love with him.

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