A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars.
I love, love, love this movie. I think I have watched it like 50 times in the last month. It's funny and insightful. It is definitely not your typical boring predictable Hollywood rom-com which I despise so much. (Hottie Ryan Gosling helps a lot too, specially when he re-enacts a Dirty Dancing scene WITH HIS SHIRT OFF!!!). This movie is very well cast (and not because of Gosling!!): all the actors have great chemistry!!! Aside from the fact that it is very well shot and that it is very funny, I like this movie because it is about staying young at heart and believing in soul mates: that very deep connection with someone else that one rarely finds in this superficial world. It is about a teenager teaching his Dad a lesson on love. It is about finding love with the most unexpected people and it is also about keeping love alive when we find it. There are many types of love and this movie definitely touches on all of them: family love, young love, puppy love, mature love, friendship love.
But, what is love anyways? I love (no pun intended) to look up such important words in the dictionary. According to my iMac's dictionary, love is a noun and a verb. As a noun it has 3 meanings: (1) an intense feeling of deep affection (a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone); (2) a person or thing that one loves (no shit Sherlock) as in "he was the love of her life"; (3) in tennis, squash and some other sports a score of zero. As a verb it means "to feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone, like very much, find pleasure in." Yep, the meaning throws no light on what love really is nor how to attain it and/or maintain it. I do find it interesting that love is a "deep sexual attachment" because we are usually taught by social convention something else: that love is not just about sex even though sex (intimacy) is sort of a big important part of a couple's relationship. Without it what's the point of having a relationship anyways? Anyhow, since it is so hard to define, I do believe it is just crazy stupid. It is crazy because only a fool would love knowing that somehow or some way you will get hurt (be it on purpose or by accident or just by nature (as in natural death) and stupid because when their is love involved all logic and reason goes out the window.
Yep, this movie is all about all types of love and you know they are all a little bit crazy and a little bit stupid.
This is crazy. This is stupid. This is love.
Te escribí desde el celu y se borró... así que comienzo otra vez pero desde la pc!
ReplyDeleteTambién me gustó la movie! Ryan lo hizo muy bien, fue convincente, cool y real. Podría ser pana a no ser que me quedaría sin amigas!!! jajajaja.
En cuestiones de definiciones, siempre recuerdo la definición de Amor de los antiguos griegos: el amor es una fuerza cohesiva que vuelve a unir lo que ahora esta separado. Que pena que los egos compliquen el simple llamado de ésa fuerza :)
Esta bueno tu blog, no lo abandones... es duro pero sigue adelante!!!