Warning: Major spoilers are contained in this blog. If you haven't seen the title movie and don't want to know what happens: Stop reading now.
Hokay. So I just got done watching the movie Love and Other Drugs. You know the one. It stars Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal (Yes, I spelled that right on the first try without help. Go me.). Hathaway is a Parkinson's patient at the age of 26 and Gyllenhaal is a drug rep for the company Pfizer. The two meet and decide to have a sexual relationship so long as it stays strictly about sex(How many times have we seen this scenario, right?). He falls for her. (Of course.) And then she falls for him. (Duh.)
Well I'll admit I really liked this. It was kind of unusual and while the story line maybe cliche for the time, I still think it is indie enough to still be cool without pushing the limits on annoying. Anyway.
The end scenes were surprisingly simple, but with enough depth to make me happy.
Gyllenhaal is packing up his apartment because he has gotten a job offer in Chicago. While moving some boxes he picks up the video camera he and Hathaway had used to record little messages at random times. He hooks it to TV and it starts playing perfectly to a recent recording where she's lying under the sheets and he asks her in essence what she's thinking about.
"Just how happy I am. In this moment right now. The way the light's hitting that face of yours. There's this little breeze coming in through the window. And it doesn't matter if I have 10,000 more moments like this or... just this one. Because it's all the same... Yeah. Just that. Right now. This moment. I have this."
Then Gyllenhaal decides he has to go find her and profess his love again.
Anne Hathaway is sitting on a bus with a group of elderly people going to Canada for cheaper prescriptions. Gyllenhaal runs to Hathaway's place of employment to find out where she is. The boss man tells G to chase the bus. So he proceeds to cut off a bunch of people in traffic to catch up to the bus where he honks and yells to get Hathaway's attention so she can get the bus pulled over so they can talk. Ok. Cliche. I know. But after this was where I enjoyed it the most. Gyllenhaal goes into the monologue:
"I'm full of shit, okay? No I'm... I'm *knowingly* full of shit. Because, uh... because uh, uh... I have... I have *never* cared about anybody or anything in my entire life. And the thing is, everybody just kind of accepted that. Like, "That's just Jamie." And then you!... Jesus. *You*. You. You didn't see me that way. I have never known anyone who actually believed that I was enough. Until I met you. And then you made me believe it, too. So, unfortunately, I need you. And you need me."
"No I don't."
"Yes you do."
"NO I don't."
"Yes you do."
"Stoppit. Stop saying that."
"You need someone to take care of you."
"No I don't."
"Everybody does."
"I'm gonna need you more than you need me."
"That's ok."
"NO it's not. It isn't FAIR. I have places to go."
"You'll go there. I just may have to carry you."
"I can't ask you to do that."
"You didn't."
"Hey. Let's just say in some alternate universe there's a couple that's just like us. Only she's healthy and he's perfect. And their world is about how much money they're gonna spend on a vacation and who's in a bad mood that day or whether they feel guilty or not about having a cleaning lady. ...I don't wanna be those people. I want us. YOU. This."
I love the part where Anne says, "I'm gonna need you more than you need me." Because Jake says so easily that it's ok. I feel like that all the time. I don't feel like my husband needs me anywhere close to the way I feel I need him. So many times I have worried that it won't work with me needing him more than he needs me... but this scene made me feel better about it. As if sometimes, that just has to be the case. And it's ok. It's alright if you don't have a totally balanced relationship all the time. Sometimes I will definitely need him more. But sometimes... just sometimes... he'll need me more. And I'll be there. No matter what.
Just like he is for me.
Aww yay love<3
