It is truly one of my favorite movies and not only because there's Kate Winslet and Jude Law in it and because Cameron Diaz once for a change doesn't play a stupid blonde, but also because it shows a broader picture of what life's truly about. Sure, it consist of some great actors/actresses indeed, but what attracts me the most with this movie and what makes this whole story so gripping is that four strangers have come in each other's lives at such brilliant coincidence I might even start believing in them. I'm truly not the right address for cheesy American love-comedies because I've seen more than enough of it. But this really touched my heart in a way I didn't know it could be. I watched this movie probably like two or three times, yet, to be honest, I never get tired of it, and I've also watched it a long time ago and even then I've realized there's something special about it. It can still make me feel things about life I've never felt before, make me see things I was never able to see before.
Sure, Jude Law can be a pretentious idiot in real life, Cameron Diaz might have a really annoying smile/laugh, Kate Winslet can be a dork at times and Jack Black can resemble the definition of an awkward dummy, but these are all just prejudices and what they all together showed in this movie was fantastic performance and acting. What they shared in this movie was pure love, spontaneity and happiness to really get to know life itself and yourself. For you never get another shot, right? I loved how at the same time two women in completely different parts of the world decided to explore the world and do this amazing "house exchange". Sure it also represents lots of danger and it probably this rarely works out in real life, but the way they showed this experience to us, the viewers, was sure as hell very beautiful, romantic and causing lots of envious sighs. Oscar Wilde said: "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." And we better do that quickly while we're still fairly young and foolish and ready to explore the world.
Christmas Eve was approaching with the speed of light and both Amanda's and Iris's life wasn't where they both planned it to be by then. What can we say, life's truly unfair and unpredictable right? Well, exactly that conclusion brought them to the decision that they try something new entirely this winter and what they both had in common - to get away from men. Thought that wasn't want Amanda and Iris both found. Sometimes you think running away from the thing that bothers you will solve it all and make the problem disappear, when it is your head that needs to be a bit changed. The way you think and your perspective. You cannot blame the whole world for your experience.
Amanda's perception of men was sort of justifiably hostile, but just because one traumatic change has happened in her life does not mean it is over. That does not yet mean she lost each and every possibility in finding happiness in life with a man by her side. Most women think that way because they think men are all this world's about instead of just focusing on themselves once in a while if not all the time. Because it truly isn't all about love, the one they present in the cliche movies. It's about loving yourself and accepting yourself as you are and then coming across someone who is willing to love and accept you, too. "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction" is a lovely quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and it perfectly describes the true meaning of love in this world. It is, yes, about two people that love each other immensely, but mostly it is about how they fight together through the world. It's with someone who you can share silence with without being uncomfortable or awkward.
When Amanda was hurt by her boyfriend in the hot California, Iris was freezing somewhere in London and painfully watching the man on that goddamned aisle and the woman next to him wishing that she was the one he'd hold around the waist and proudly present to the world. What I also loved about this lovely and adorable little design of the story was how Amanda and Iris were both in some way infatuated with their perception of men, daydreams and images of how it should be according to them. And there's no way I could blame them, though. I loved it how they put two different women entirely with two different problems (yet still having lots in common) and then meeting online totally out of the blue. This is why sometimes I regain faith in destiny and how everything happens for a reason. When they both lost hope (in either men or the world, not sure yet, maybe even both), they found it again in new opportunity. And you cannot blame a person for trying.
These people found themselves by pure coincidence, yet it seems like they were meant to meet on that particular day. Life's funny, isn't it? It's full of all sorts of tricks and intrigues that we think are traps and in some way they are, but that's what it's all about. Life is meant to be taken with ease and not to seriously. What do you have from it if you nonstop blame yourself for things instead of moving forward, trying anew? What is there to be lost? Pride, reputation, dignity? You even gain those by starting over and giving yourself a chance. You cannot always think there's a reason for everything and spend most of the time trying to find it. Why not just let loose, let the flow of the life guide you? I
I think that's why they both (Amanda and Iris) decided for a step like this one. They wanted to start over, but they didn't realize running away does not equal starting over. They thought escaping it would help, but in fact there's only gonna be more of it (whatever it is you're afraid of). It is known we're afraid of something we do not understand and I think it's common knowledge no one understands men nor women.
This is what I've learned and what sort of sums up the movie in my opinion: that we must take charge of our life in our own hands. Who else will? Sure, there are people who'd gladly take over that job, but in fact only you own the right to do so and you're the only one who can do so. No matter how cliche and silly it sounds, you are responsible for your own future. Everybody's got a past they want to get rid of by running away and also everybody's got a future some crave for so much. We all have a chance. All we need is to dare to go out there, reach for it and grab for it. Because we already have all it takes to get there: a head, two arms and legs and a heart. The little thing that needs a bit of switching and turning is one of your screws in your head and then it'll all makes sense. Like a vision that was once blurry is now all clear and revealed.
Nothing in life is always certain. No one can guarantee us the happy ending nor to get what we wish for at the end of the day. What we can do, though, is make the most of the time we've got at disposal here. A wise woman once said we're not here for a finite amount of time, because we've invented time with our imagination. Our duration of life is based and measured by how we spend it. Not by minutes or hours or even years. But by the moments that took your breath away. By the experiences that you shall never forget, books that changed your life, lovers that gave you new point of view. Life consists of so many wonderful things it's a shame if we don't give ourselves a chance to explore it. It's not about finding yourself either. It's about creating, developing yourself. About taking in the whole world in you, absorbing its eternal beauty and wonders. It will not last forever. Nothing does, for that matter. But what can live longer than ourselves, the only thing that can outdo ourselves is our passion and soul. We can never lose that.
Sure, Jude Law can be a pretentious idiot in real life, Cameron Diaz might have a really annoying smile/laugh, Kate Winslet can be a dork at times and Jack Black can resemble the definition of an awkward dummy, but these are all just prejudices and what they all together showed in this movie was fantastic performance and acting. What they shared in this movie was pure love, spontaneity and happiness to really get to know life itself and yourself. For you never get another shot, right? I loved how at the same time two women in completely different parts of the world decided to explore the world and do this amazing "house exchange". Sure it also represents lots of danger and it probably this rarely works out in real life, but the way they showed this experience to us, the viewers, was sure as hell very beautiful, romantic and causing lots of envious sighs. Oscar Wilde said: "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." And we better do that quickly while we're still fairly young and foolish and ready to explore the world.
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Amanda's perception of men was sort of justifiably hostile, but just because one traumatic change has happened in her life does not mean it is over. That does not yet mean she lost each and every possibility in finding happiness in life with a man by her side. Most women think that way because they think men are all this world's about instead of just focusing on themselves once in a while if not all the time. Because it truly isn't all about love, the one they present in the cliche movies. It's about loving yourself and accepting yourself as you are and then coming across someone who is willing to love and accept you, too. "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction" is a lovely quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and it perfectly describes the true meaning of love in this world. It is, yes, about two people that love each other immensely, but mostly it is about how they fight together through the world. It's with someone who you can share silence with without being uncomfortable or awkward.
When Amanda was hurt by her boyfriend in the hot California, Iris was freezing somewhere in London and painfully watching the man on that goddamned aisle and the woman next to him wishing that she was the one he'd hold around the waist and proudly present to the world. What I also loved about this lovely and adorable little design of the story was how Amanda and Iris were both in some way infatuated with their perception of men, daydreams and images of how it should be according to them. And there's no way I could blame them, though. I loved it how they put two different women entirely with two different problems (yet still having lots in common) and then meeting online totally out of the blue. This is why sometimes I regain faith in destiny and how everything happens for a reason. When they both lost hope (in either men or the world, not sure yet, maybe even both), they found it again in new opportunity. And you cannot blame a person for trying.
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I think that's why they both (Amanda and Iris) decided for a step like this one. They wanted to start over, but they didn't realize running away does not equal starting over. They thought escaping it would help, but in fact there's only gonna be more of it (whatever it is you're afraid of). It is known we're afraid of something we do not understand and I think it's common knowledge no one understands men nor women.
This is what I've learned and what sort of sums up the movie in my opinion: that we must take charge of our life in our own hands. Who else will? Sure, there are people who'd gladly take over that job, but in fact only you own the right to do so and you're the only one who can do so. No matter how cliche and silly it sounds, you are responsible for your own future. Everybody's got a past they want to get rid of by running away and also everybody's got a future some crave for so much. We all have a chance. All we need is to dare to go out there, reach for it and grab for it. Because we already have all it takes to get there: a head, two arms and legs and a heart. The little thing that needs a bit of switching and turning is one of your screws in your head and then it'll all makes sense. Like a vision that was once blurry is now all clear and revealed.
Nothing in life is always certain. No one can guarantee us the happy ending nor to get what we wish for at the end of the day. What we can do, though, is make the most of the time we've got at disposal here. A wise woman once said we're not here for a finite amount of time, because we've invented time with our imagination. Our duration of life is based and measured by how we spend it. Not by minutes or hours or even years. But by the moments that took your breath away. By the experiences that you shall never forget, books that changed your life, lovers that gave you new point of view. Life consists of so many wonderful things it's a shame if we don't give ourselves a chance to explore it. It's not about finding yourself either. It's about creating, developing yourself. About taking in the whole world in you, absorbing its eternal beauty and wonders. It will not last forever. Nothing does, for that matter. But what can live longer than ourselves, the only thing that can outdo ourselves is our passion and soul. We can never lose that.
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