Day 20: Addicted to Love

Day 20: Addicted to Love

Yay! Addicted to Love (appropriate title for a gal like me hmmm?)! My husband even likes this movie! Don’t you just love romantic comedies? They allow for the most ridiculous of plots to be accepted in the sweetest way. Here we have two jilted lovers so upset about being dumped that they stalk and ruin the lives of their exes but magically fall in love with each other, confess their sins and all end up happy in the end. If this were reality, we’d have some serious lawsuits on our hands, but as it is Romantic Comedy world, we get a couple slaps, a couple tears and everyone moves on happily ever after. Here is also a good movie where Meg tries to stretch herself a bit, wear some dark makeup and be a bit tougher.

So here is how Addicted to Love checks off:

• Giddy: Oh yes, we have giddy. First off, we have a guy so in love with his girlfriend at the top of the movie that he stops all work each day to look at her (giddy dance), then we have the steamy kiss with Meg in front of her Grandma no less (giddy dance – oh I feel that kiss down to my toes), and of course the end of this movie where they use the Lassie story to come together (giddy dance oh yeah).Also, I just have to say, I love both Matthew and Meg’s descriptions of love in this movie: Matthew says its how you feel hollow when you don’t have love, like something is filled when you do have it and Meg tells the gruesome tale of her dad carefully taking each maggot out of their dog’s butt. Ah lamour!
• Lie: Matthew starts working for the man who stole away his love and lies to him.
• Big Emotional Outburst: Here again, we have several. Personally I love the ones by the Frenchie the best, mainly because it is those outbursts that make me finally see something attractive in him. Until then, I spend the majority of the movie just wondering why on earth not one but two women are addicted to him. Yes- that’s right folks, I’m a sucker for Men being vulnerable. A man cries for me, oh yeah, I’m done for.
• Dance Sequence: Nope.
• Wedding: Nope.
• Rewatchable: Oh yes.
• Love: Ah, passionate love(Tcheky and Kelly) and love for the wrong person (Matthew and Meg)
• Fantasy: Well we have the fantasy I already talked about: You can ruin someones life and all will still be well, but again, we also have NYC apartments and one is amazing and one is a condemned building. Now here is a great fantasy: You can move into a condemned building in NYC and not find rats, or crack addicts, and actually furniture and running water will still be at your disposal. Oh I wish this one were true, I’d break my lease so quick!
• Journey of the main character: We have two jilted lovers who slowly discover that maybe the best thing for them was to have been dumped. It helped them discover the extreme side of themselves and helped them discover each other.
• Body Count: Nope.
• Music Montages: Sort of. But they do end up doing the opposite, they make me think that Meg and Matthew have been stalking for a very very long time.
• Strong Female: Ah Meg, you tough broad with a soft heart! I love you!