Last week I had an amazing night alone. I don't know if you all do this or not, but night's alone should not be cast aside. They give you time to enjoy yourself, do you want you want to do, and watch or read what you want to watch or read. My husband plays darts on Tuesdays, so I have a night to myself each Tuesday, and it is glorious (no offense honey!).
Last Tuesday I watched Something Borrowed, the movie adaptation of Emily Giffin's bestselling novel of the same name. Although I don't think it broke any box office records, this movie made me go through the range of emotions any human being can feel: rage, happiness, excitement, jealousy, lust, longing, heartbreak, joy, betrayal, loyalty, bitterness, helplessness, ineptitude, bewilderment...you get the idea.
This movie make you relive that period post-college and pre-babies, right when you are making some of the biggest decisions of your life but nobody bothers to tell you that you are in fact making the biggest decisions of your life.
You follow the prescription for a happy life: college, job, friends, love, engagement...but where do YOU fit into all of that? Where are YOUR dreams? How about you say screw what I am supposed to do or want and do what you actually want?
But I digress.
This movie does not dive all the way in to these issues, but it does touch on them by showing people who seemingly have it all still not be happy enough because they are being untrue to themselves. They are being true to their parents, bosses, society, friends....but not to themselves. That is what is poignant about this movie. That is what resonates.
But to be girly for a second....this movie made me BAWL. Maybe because I see myself in Darcy and in Rachel. Maybe because it breaks my heart that we can't just love who is good for us. Maybe because it makes you just ache, absoletely ache, for anyone that has ever loved you or anyone you have ever loved.
Well done, well cast, well executed. Buy, rent, borrow, rent on amazon for only 3.99...but WATCH THIS MOVIE!