What Happens On Movies

You guys who have reading my posts, must have noticed that in December, I have reviewed some movies. I not just stated what's good or bad about the movies, but I also tried to relate it to how real human life works in the similar pattern too. If you realize, there is a common flow how almost every movie works from the beginning till the end.

1 - The main characters (usually a boy and a girl) will get something that makes them happy. Like Dale Denton and Saul River get their new drug in Pineapple Express, or Kate Holbrook and Angie Ostrowiski get to be a mother and money respectively in Baby Mama, or Melanie Smooter and Andrew Hennings get engaged in Sweet Home Alabama. The beginning storyline acts as the way to introduce the concept of the movie.

2 - A building (or many) storyline gets in. Like Anna Brady is stuck with a cynical Irish man, Declan O'Callaghan in Leap Year, or Robert Kearns is starting to feel like successes are in his hands in Flash of Genius, or when Travis, Barris and other subjects of an experiment are finally split into being prisoners or prison guards in The Experiment. This storyline is important in directing how the lives of the characters will go, but usually there will be....

3 - A conflict. Usually the main characters will get some sort of conflicts that cause them to rift apart. Like Travis and Barris start to play out their own prisoner and prison guard role very nicely against each other, or Dale Denton and Saul Silver fight over their own different attitudes about how drugs should or should not still be used, or when Rebecca Bloomwood's boss, Luke Brandon realize that the former cheats in her job. I'd like to focus on this part. You see, whenever these characters get into trouble, the usual writing would be one or two or all of the main characters will opt to get out of anything they have between them. Couples decide to break off, spouses file for a divorce, friends vows for enmity, and family members disown each other. However, if you look closely at these movies, you will realize that usually the causes of the break-up are either manageable or tiny, like Brooke Meyers is angry at Gary Grobowski over untidy house in The Break-Up, Alison Scott is mad at Ben Stone for his overly casual and dimwitted attitude in Knocked Up, or even an eventual break-up of Anna Brady with Jeremy Sloane because she thinks that his fiancee chooses matierials over her in a fire emergency. These little things are just enough to make them realize that they should not be together.

4 - The making amends begins. When all these conflicts happen, these main character will undergo some time not being together with the other. But of course these movies need a happy ending, so Anna Brady chooses Declan O'Callaghan as her partner for life, Ben Stone and Alison Scott get married, Kate Holbrook is pregnant and is getting her own child. At this stage of the movies, one of the main character will go out of his or her way trying to win the other over again. Melanie Smooter calling off her wedding with another guy to be with her husband, or Tom Bailey riding a horse across a lake to get to his love before she gets married with another guy in Made of Honor, or the Travis and the prisoners fight for their survival by running amok. The movies end with a little sparkly smile in the end showing that everything turns out good.

Ok, I'm getting to my point, pardon my long excited movie again-recaps. My point is, if you forget these movies and come back to reality, do you see that most of humans' stories in this world end at stage #3 above. Have you seen people who just give up without trying? Who end things without communicating? Who just stop without fighting for it? This is really a reality of our lives that need an opened eye. We always depend on bad events to decide that things end that our sensitivity to those are increasing day by day. Have you ever wondered, or waited, that your new partner will screw up in his assignment to break off the teamwork? Or have you been trying to look if your new husband will show an imperfection to file for a divorce? Or your roommate to be a jerk for you to move out?

Very rarely we try to see these things as a challenge for us to deal with, rather we just escape because we think it's better to stop now than to suffer later. My very point is we feel safer, apparently, by NOT being in a commitment. So, I'm calling all of us and me to have a little fight for what you really  need rather than what you want, because what we want is usually not reliable to begin with.