I spent my Friday night heading to the movies to see Love and Other Drugs staring Jake Gyllenhaul and Anne Hatheway. It was just another one of your average love story movies but I’m a sucker for those and I loved it. They were both SO naked in this film…I’m sure it was close to getting a NC-17 rating. But I appreciated the naked-ness because not only is Jake GORGEOUS but it made everything so much more relatable and real.
I left the movie feeling two ways:
1) When I fall in love will it be that deep passionate love you feel only exists in movies? Or will it be the love I see so many of my friends in… comfortable, caring, and sweet? As a single girl, I can still believe in and hope for the deep passionate “can’t live without you” type of love.
2) Are we soley put on this earth to find our other half? Why can’t one be satisfied with a successful career, strong friendships and casual sex? If we roamed the earth without seeing couples everywhere, people getting married and everyone talking about wanting to be in a relationship…would we need it? We can clearly procreate without a marriage certificate, so why such a huge emphasis on “finding the one”? I’m going to write a script and make a movie about someone who starts off happy in their life, living life independent, and in the end, NOT falling in love. We never see that. Every character in every movie, no matter how damaged they are in the beginning, always find another person to complete them. Maybe one day people will be able to walk away from a person who has chosen to live a completely happy life on their own, and not feel sorry for them.
Grade: B
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