So it’s no secret that being the blue, emotional, hormone-fueled teenager that I am, I love romance movies. Not even just movies but shows, books, ect. Something has always appealed to me about emotions and screaming “BUT SHE LOVED YOU” at the television. So this movie really threw me for a spin.
This movie is practically the opposite of what I normally watch. Heres the jist of the movie. Theres this young woman around the age of 28 and she has just been accepted into her dream job in the heart of California. The only problem is she lives in NewYork. Still she was ecstatic and told her boyfriend of 9 years that she was going to move to California for this once in a lifetime opportunity. However her boyfriend is afraid things won’t work out and avoids the future pain of a long distance relationship there and then. This is only the first 20ish minutes.
The rest of the movie is about her leaving NewYork with a bang. She decides to go to a concert with her 2 best friends. While preparing for the big day everywhere they go she sees memories of the her and her boyfriend in the early “honeymoon” stages of their relationship. I don’t want to spoil the movie so this is all i’ll say.
The reason this surprised me was because I don’t like sad movies. I still don’t but for some reason this movie spoke to me. I think it’s possibly because of the many relatable situations of this movie about overthinking and seeing someone that you miss through places to use to go to get together. I think this spoke to me so much because it wasn’t a traditional love story of Romeo and Juliet I have two forbidden lovers. It’s also because no filmmaker has been ballsy enough to make a movie based on a break up. On paper this doesn’t sound like a selling movie idea In the slightest but hey Netflix made it work. In all honesty I’m not sure where this media blog is even going but if you have an hour or two I would highly recommend seeing this movie. Even if you have a strong hatred for romance movies I would still highly recommend watching this one.
I watched this movie and I was also surprised at the ending. I think we get so used to the stereotypical Hollywood romantic comedy in which the couple ends up together despite all odds. I found the movie to be a lot more true to real life. Even though the ending of this movie wasn't what most people would wan't to see in a romance movie, I felt that it was very impact and I am glad the screen writers chose to move the story in a less predictable direction.
ReplyDeleteThis movie broke my heart so many times over and it is definitely one of my new favorites. For one, can we get an amen for two queer women of color in a happy relationship, as well as a woman in color lead!! Times are changing ladies and gentlemen, and this movie was so diverse and included so many different people, causing it to speak to a wider range of audiences. I agree with what Anna said above, how non-clichéd it was made it so much better. I thought they would just get back together, but the fact that they didn't and that she realized how much they had both changed was the ended I didn't know I needed but really did. The movie is a perfect balance between reminding people to grow up, and that your glory days won't last forever- and reminding them to take their time to figure things out, a message we will all need as we become adults.
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