I don't know why the title of this post is a line from a Muse song (Super Massive Black Hole if you were curious) but I suppose this post deals with love, so it makes sense.
I watched The Adjustment Bureau (it's been out for awhile, bear with me, it came on the telly last night on one of those movie channels I have with the Beasts of all Beasts Time Warner). Anyway, I liked the movie. I didn't bother to learn the names of the characters, of course, because I am distractable as all hell (distractable is a word, right?). I'm going to call them boy and girl or guy and girl.
Boy meets girl. Boy falls instantly in love with girl- which ALWAYS happens. Boy finds out about mysterious faction that controls peoples' lives and that does not want him to be with the girl he loves so much. (The usual, right?) So of course, as in all movies, he fights the power! (Public Enemy, anyone?) and SPOILER ALERT: gets the Chairman to change "the plan".
Matt Damon and Emily Blunt's characters were likeable people, Matt Damon's character more than Emily's. I don't know what it was, but that quirky shit Hollywood keeps trying to put on women is not that cute. Oh, look at her! She dared herself to crash a wedding party and is hiding out from security in a men's bathroom. How quirky and attractive! Look, she drops his phone into his coffee, and just does not give a shit! Awesome!
OK side note, actually that phone in coffee thing super bothered me. She didn't destroy the phone, but she could have and he said he just got the thing...mmmm not attractive to me. It actually brought me out of the movie a little bit. I was thinking: MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN. Bitches be crazy.
Anyway, so she's all quirky and pretty and whatnot, so he's just gotta fall for her right? If only it were that simple, ladies. I just want to warn you that, in real life, it's not. Otherwise my crazy glasses and wide-eyed stare, ala Zooey Deschanel and crazy do and weird ass activities would make me the most popular girl in town. And it hasn't...yet.
Anyway (again), the dudes behind the scenes, the adjusters I guess (Mad-Men looking d-bags), feel that if he decides to date the girl he won't become President or some shazz and for some reason, it's super important. They feel that if he gets with the girl, then he'll be happy in life. And, you know, can't have that. So they run around trying to ruin the guy's life so he can eventually become president. Why do they need the guy to become president? No one knows. No one knows anything. Just like in real life!
I'm so off on a tangent today, ladies and gentlemen. But SPOILER ALERT: They get together in the end. Betcha didn't see that coming, huh?
*****I do want to make this point though: some things could only happen in the movies. I'm not talking all the sci-fi weirdness. I'm talking about this dude finding a girl, talking all this crazy talk about Mad-Men looking guys who are after him and how she can come through a door with him and he doesn't know what's on the other side, and the fact that this chick actually goes with him. No further questions. She just goes...
But, hey, she's quirky I guess. Quirky people just take the leap of faith. But things have to get kinda boring later on in life, when they're married and settled down and looking at each other from across the breakfast table.
DUDE: "Honey, I got those TPS reports ready for my boss today. He'll be happy. Can you pass the cereal?"
GIRL: "I guess. When is some weird shit gonna happen to us again? That was fun."
...And they lived happily ever after.
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