"Not Another Romantic Comedy" would be the title I gave to this movie during the half time watching it. Apparently, it's not simply just a love story, neither comedy-themed romance, nor romance-themed comedy. It's more like a "long " combination of a little bit of "everything": nude & sex(apparently), relationship & politics, insights into the drug business, ugly truth of the medical industry, the supposedly-encouraging case of a sale man, even the origin and outburst of Viagra, etc. But out of all those various factors, what attracts me most is the "lively pixie", rarely seen lately elsewhere, on Jake Gyllenhaal.
With all due acknowledgement of its "variety", I'm still bugged by the inconsistency in style/pace of this movie: tic-tak running around like a tap dance in the beginning, but in the half way towards the end, wheezing heavily like a crippled 200-pounds.
Piece of advice for guys committed in relationships: when your girl pushes you away, even harshly and hysterically, you gotta know, what she actually wants is you walk all the way back to her.
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