Seeing that we were both feeling a little under the weather, the latter won. We were not in the best state to watch people killing other people and risk losing sleep and whatever little health we had left.
So anyway, true enough...this movie had it all; the corny longing looks, the lame one-liner pickups, the unattainable possibility of finding love in the space of 2 days...
It almost put us to sleep.
So, we watched it half-way as we were both understandably falling bored (i mean asleep!) and by some sheer willpower, decided to watch the rest the following night. (I think the justification was that we'll always wonder what happened in the end. Although i seriously doubt that)
Then something amazing happened...he died!! Yup...a love story which is so unbelievably bad, and the main character died. And in my opinion, this is when the movie redeemed itself in my eyes.
Suddenly the main actress could actually act and there was some substance to the movie.
So this whole episode got me thinking....is this what gets us going nowadays? Is this how we see the world? Or is this just plain reality and unfortunately, we're old enough to see it?
Someone asked me once why i liked GA so much. "It's a series about a bunch of doctors in a hospital", he says. "It's nothing but death and dying".
"But that's why it's so great", i responded. "It's based on the real-world and not all Hollywood rosy crap and happily-ever-after endings".
But now i'm asking myself; why is it that we make the choice to escape the real world by reading, or watching movies/TV or whatever, when really, the world that we escape to is pretty much the world we live in anyway?
I mean i couldn't bear to read any of those Mills & Boons crap...it's like watching that crappy, wet movie (or so i thought!) we decided on that Thursday night.
And yet we say we want to escape to that nice world where everything is better than where we are now....
Disclaimer: Apologies to Mills & Boons and the movie i've been dissing in this entry.
