The movie feels like the last sentence of a fairy tale: the prince and princess lived happily ever after...but, in real life, this is just the beginning of life, not the end.
Of course, it is undeniable that this love affair is interesting and romantic, and the two can be considerate to each other. These are all added points and even essential elements in love in my opinion.
When the male and female protagonists first met, the male protagonist asked and answered himself to break the silence; when the female protagonist happened to see her ex-boyfriend on New Year's Eve, she was pulled over and kissed by the male protagonist when she happened to see her ex-boyfriend. The nude photos of Bei in the moonlight; they try to make each other happy when they encounter difficult things... They have a lot of positive interactions, which makes people feel warm in their hearts. But I still think the love portrayed in this movie is too idealistic.
The scene of Emily breaking up with her ex-boyfriend is like this: The ex-boyfriend is sitting on the sofa at work. Emily is so excited because she receives a phone call for an audition, and keeps interrupting her boyfriend. The boyfriend can't stand the interruption and chooses to break up. It can also be seen from her boyfriend having sex with the heroine before going downstairs to work that her boyfriend has been cooperating with her: Emily needs a lot of praise from her boyfriend, and she needs her boyfriend to give her all the attention she needs. On the contrary, she did not give her boyfriend these, even violated her boyfriend's boundaries. And, from her boyfriend's attitude, it can be seen that Emily has not done this once or twice. However, Emily did not focus on this point...
In a later meeting with Oliver, Emily planned to have sex with Oliver, but she suddenly stopped and said: I am not the girl I was 3 years ago, and I will not find a young boy to have sex after I broke up to prove that I still have sex No one is old pearl yellow. When Emily broke up, her friend just reassured her that he should be forgotten, that it was too much for him to dump her before the new year. No one around Emily realized that it was her who needed to change, including Emily herself.
From what the movie shows, Emily is sad and heartbroken to be dumped, but she doesn't draw any lessons from the relationship that work for her. She may think she's not as attractive as she was when she was younger and that's why her boyfriend broke up with her, but that's not the real reason. Of course, the ex-boyfriend also has some problems. If they don't communicate with each other when they encounter problems, the solution is to break up directly.
Even so, the movie still gave the heroine a seemingly happy ending, with Emily and Oliver finally getting together. But what about after being together? Whether they'll also run into the same problems Emily had with her ex-boyfriend, there's no telling. Therefore, I don't like this ending very much, because it conveys such a value: I didn't get happiness because I didn't meet the right person, not because I didn't have the ability to manage love.
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