i just watched a movie called i hate valentines day
this lady is a florist (typical...) and meets this guy who just bought a restaurant down the street from her shop. he's cute, comes in one day they eventually go out. the catch is she has a 5 date limit because 5 dates is the perfect amount of time to have fun but not get attached. she also thinks that relationships are unnatural and that no person has a mr or mrs right.
what happens is actually expected. she goes on the dates with him, by the 4th date they have sex and she stays the night and the following night. she counts it as 4 dates, he counts it as 5. they run into each other, she says why haven't you called, we still have one more date, he says we had five. she pretends to be joking. they go on with their lives miserable.
the audience eventually finds out that her parents are divorced and her father cheated on her mother. she can't love because she doesn't let anyone love her because she's afraid of getting hurt. eventually on the valentines day the following year, he professes his love to her by singing to her (something he is afraid of doing) on the street while she watches from the window. she runs down, kisses him and he says be my girlfriend? she says yes. the end.
the movie wasn't good but it wasn't terrible either. i was just most surprised that the story was like that at all. fear is often showcased in romantic comedies - fear of dating and getting hurt because of past relationships. i can't think of one that was fear of getting hurt because the most important man in your life was a douchebag. quite interesting, not profound by the least but interesting.
there was a very telling line in the movie - humans have survived this long by avoiding pain.
my life in a nutshell.
ray charles
this lady is a florist (typical...) and meets this guy who just bought a restaurant down the street from her shop. he's cute, comes in one day they eventually go out. the catch is she has a 5 date limit because 5 dates is the perfect amount of time to have fun but not get attached. she also thinks that relationships are unnatural and that no person has a mr or mrs right.
what happens is actually expected. she goes on the dates with him, by the 4th date they have sex and she stays the night and the following night. she counts it as 4 dates, he counts it as 5. they run into each other, she says why haven't you called, we still have one more date, he says we had five. she pretends to be joking. they go on with their lives miserable.
the audience eventually finds out that her parents are divorced and her father cheated on her mother. she can't love because she doesn't let anyone love her because she's afraid of getting hurt. eventually on the valentines day the following year, he professes his love to her by singing to her (something he is afraid of doing) on the street while she watches from the window. she runs down, kisses him and he says be my girlfriend? she says yes. the end.
the movie wasn't good but it wasn't terrible either. i was just most surprised that the story was like that at all. fear is often showcased in romantic comedies - fear of dating and getting hurt because of past relationships. i can't think of one that was fear of getting hurt because the most important man in your life was a douchebag. quite interesting, not profound by the least but interesting.
there was a very telling line in the movie - humans have survived this long by avoiding pain.
my life in a nutshell.
ray charles
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