Pretty awesome movie, it's a smart and sophisticated movie with a seemingly simple plot. It keeps you laughing throughout, even though the main character is going through the emotional pains of a divorce. You grow to sympathize with him and even his buddy at the bar (a womanizer) is likeable. The movie kept it real. I think that's why I liked it.
A typical rom com would've probably been the love story of the two main characters in their high school years (they're high school sweethearts, now married almost 25 yrs). It would've probably ended with them getting married, dreaming of a future together, and living in the 'happily ever after'.
But this movie was not like that. It was the twenty-five-years later version of the story, where things are not so happily ever after. Where love isn't just the feelings of butterflies in the the tummy, but it is hard work.
I'm also reading a book by Ravi Zacharias on marriage - I, Isaac, take thee, Rebekah - and it's super insightful. One thing he says about a marriage is that it's as much about the will as it is about emotions. It's just that we like the emotions part more.
Hmmm there are so many things I want to quote from the book......... I will only put two, and maybe write more later.
"Don't be deceived by the flutter of the heart. Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible so clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us."
"Watch two young people in a passionate embrace - it may be love, but it may also be nothing more than passion. Watch two elderly people walking hand in hand with evident concern for each other, and you are closer to seeing love in that relationship than in the youthful embrace."
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