Movie Reviews of He's Just Not That Into You
- He's Just Not That Into You
First of all, I swear they just put Jennifer Aniston & Drew Barrymore in it to draw attention. I mean yeah, I love them, but essentially the plot could have done without their stories, but in retrospect, their characters were necessary in the whole picture. I'm making no sense huh? Oh come on, like that surprises you! lol, but let me explain. HJNTIY is not your typical chick flick, especially during the Valentine Season... it has a plot, while a typical chick flick does not. Oh come on, you know what i mean!
The whole boy meets girl, girl meets boy. They fall in love. Something goes wrong. They're too stubborn to try and fix it. And finally someone lets go of their ego and they live happily ever after. THE END.
Admit it, it's true. Don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for that overall cheesiness and the anticipation for the happy ending, but i'm just showing you the comparison. He's just not that into you isn't about, " Oh yeah, they're getting together, but how?" it's more of a, "Will ANY of them get together?!"
So anywayz, He's Just Not That Into You is A M A Z I N G ! I can sum this up with just that... yeep. that's it. lol.
but i should really justify that shouldn't i ? He's just not that into you was a wonderful satire and reflection of modern male&female interactions. Each character represents the extreme of a certain characteristic, and in doing so, they able to portray each misconception exaggeratedly and therefore humorously.
Character 1: the one that puts up with something/someone they're not unhappy with just because they'd rather keep the peace and status quo rather than trudge forward in order to get somewhere.
Chapter 2: the one who doesn't wanna be labeled by societal and traditional views of what a relationship should be.
Character 3: the one who wants to be the one that has these great quips about relationships, but never really jumps in the pool themselves and sort of skims their
toe along the pool and judges everyone else who is actively swimming about and looking like idiots.
Character 4: the one that is quite eager to find their soulmate and get married and live happily ever after, but has been grossly uneducated in the realities of relationships, taught all the wrong signs and overanalyzes and obsesses about it and is often the one who has failed and been disappointed multiple times, but is eternally hopeful.
Character 5: the one who is demanding, to whom it's really important to be with someone
straightforward and honest, to trust the person she’s with, often a type-A personality who flows through relationship rigid and by the book but after a while, so much of it becomes habit, all that stuff that you’re used to for so long, it ends in a rut.
Character 6: the one torn between stability and normalcy of a relationship and the temptations of anything/anyone who can break the lull.
Character 7: the one desperately wanting attention from the one they set their sights on to the point of overlooking basic moralities of rights and wrongs, and also disregarding those who may be the one who could be everything she could ask for.
Character 8: the one who'd give the one they love everything, despite the fact that they may not be deserving and take them for granted.
Character 9: the one who is awkward, and unsure of the whole male&female interactions that they resort to technological purposes such as Myspace in hopes to meet someone.
Notice how I didn't put names or even genders. That's the greater part about it, the fact that the personalities can be interchanged between genders, and they're not traits reserved to only one sex. In fact, personally I see a little of myself in each of them, a little of my experiences in each of their stories. I think most people can. Or at least should, quite honestly, if you don't you'ere quite blind to your own little faults.
Despite the fact that I was laughing, and crying [all at once actually] the movie left me
Thinking. Wondering. Realizing.
But basically the whole premise is on the fact that people tend to over analyze and dissect relationships blowing it out of proportions. Things should be taken at face-value, as the obvious, and the fact that it doesn't matter why, it just is.
The movie isn't about having the good guys or the bad guys, but rather show how their choices affect the outcome of their relationships. While watching it, despite the fact that i disagreed with some their choices, i saw their thought process and i could understand why. It's hard to judge the characters when they are only trying to do what they believe was right. Each of their decisions can be interpreted differently, but in the end they were all just waiting for someone worthwhile, avoiding getting hurt, looking to love and be loved. Both the men and women were equally confused, equally making mistakes, it's a great reflection of the reality that both do have each of their faults and difficulties.
Mostly, each of them share the believe of, "I need to have someone now, so I’m going to take my square peg and shove it into the round hole and hope that it feels right." In the movie it represents how both men and women's strong desire to the point of putting yourself into a pretzel shape to make it be what you're pretending that it is. But when you finally let it go, everythign starts flowing, your whole body just relaxes itself from being into something that wasn't natural, that wasn't working for you. And it feels better. It showed the overall messiness of life. People make choices, and sometimes regret it. They showed many variations of that.
But in the end... there's always hope.
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