He's Just Not That Into You. Not a groundbreaking movie by any standards.
it had its share of "aha, i know this type" characters - the "come'on !! how can someone be so dumb" type, the "what a loojer" type, the "poor li'l girl" type, the "what a @#!?!!, serves her right" type, the "fool returns home at the end of the day" type, the "she needs a commitment" type, the "typical commitment phobic" type, and many more (when i say "many more", what i really mean is: "i have run out of type'fying the rest of the characters").
i disagreed with most of the views presented in the movie, probably because i am not into reading signals. that goes for the positive and negative ones, unfortunately. it isn't a new phenomenon and going by experience, i don't know if i will ever change.
but this particular dialogue at the end was interesting:
"And maybe a happy ending doesn't include a guy, maybe... it's you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is... just... moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope."
a realistic perspective to the almost non-existent and questionable concept of "happy endings". especially after the overdose of the 80's - 90's bollywood sagas of the hero-heroine holding hands and walking into the sunset. what the story-writer of these sagas forgot to add was: "we are only showing a part of the relationship. for all you know, they will end-up hating each-other 5 years from now and go their separate ways."
as a director very rightly said: "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
P.S: jeez, so many quotes ("...") in this post :O
it had its share of "aha, i know this type" characters - the "come'on !! how can someone be so dumb" type, the "what a loojer" type, the "poor li'l girl" type, the "what a @#!?!!, serves her right" type, the "fool returns home at the end of the day" type, the "she needs a commitment" type, the "typical commitment phobic" type, and many more (when i say "many more", what i really mean is: "i have run out of type'fying the rest of the characters").
i disagreed with most of the views presented in the movie, probably because i am not into reading signals. that goes for the positive and negative ones, unfortunately. it isn't a new phenomenon and going by experience, i don't know if i will ever change.
but this particular dialogue at the end was interesting:
"And maybe a happy ending doesn't include a guy, maybe... it's you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is... just... moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope."
a realistic perspective to the almost non-existent and questionable concept of "happy endings". especially after the overdose of the 80's - 90's bollywood sagas of the hero-heroine holding hands and walking into the sunset. what the story-writer of these sagas forgot to add was: "we are only showing a part of the relationship. for all you know, they will end-up hating each-other 5 years from now and go their separate ways."
as a director very rightly said: "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
P.S: jeez, so many quotes ("...") in this post :O
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