Marriage requires hard work to maintain, but hard work is not enough

Keshaun 2021-11-29 08:01:19

Well, I admit that I didn't take this as a comedy. This film can be used as a marriage relationship education film, with a famous family counseling bookCome and see. The main point of this book is that one of the main reasons for marriage failure comes from the mismatch between the needs and expectations of the couple. It often happens that you think you have done a lot for the other party for the family, but the other party is not happy. The reason is that you do not understand what the other party really needs, and all you do are useless. This situation lasted for a long time, some people became numb, and some people divorced.

The story told by this movie actually started in such a state. A boring couple living in New Jersey each have a boring job and two troublesome children. Days are like war. In the morning, I helplessly drag myself out of bed to make breakfast, take care of the children, go to work, go home and continue to take care of the children, participate in community activities, until I drag my tired body back to bed late at night. Repeatedly. This looks like the whole of most people's married life, doesn't it?

The only bright spot is that they love each other deeply and are willing to do things for each other that they do not like or do not want to do. For example, Claire takes on most of the housework, such as Phil attending a community book club, such as once a week. Appointments. The divorce of the neighbours and the couple was a fuse: neither of them wanted to lead their lives into a photocopier, nor did they want to turn each other into just their own roommates. So they decided to dress up and go to the most popular restaurant in Manhattan, at least to make their boring life a little different.

They got a table with an impostor, and the bad luck began. In a series of adventures, they complained to each other, encouraged each other, comforted each other, cooperated with each other, moved each other... The

most important thing was that on this night of adventure, they understood the feelings between each other and understood that they might have always been What you do for the other party is not what the other party wants, and you can change the boring life of the rule.


Due to space limitations, this film does not start to tell about the marriage relationship, but cuts together life scenes through montage. The main storyline is still adventure/fun. So this is not life, just a comedy

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  • Phil Foster: But you guys are happy!

    Brad Sullivan: No, Phil, we're not.

    Phil Foster: No, no. No, you guys are *really* happy!

    Brad Sullivan: No, Phil, we're really not.

  • Haley Sullivan: And I wanna get it on with three guys at the same time, 'cause I can!

    Claire Foster: Three guys at once? That's a nightmare. That is literally a recurring stress dream that I have. I can only think of jobs for two. Oh, no, I got it.

    Haley Sullivan: Yeah, there's that one.