This is not to say, that this is a serious movie, or one that worth pondering upon. The story itself is banal and conventional, the motif of rich playboy who seems to have the world wrapped around his fingertip versus the gold-heart loser figure is the kind of cliche that has been done to death, with every possible variation already exploited. One of the longer version of this is a Japanese TV series calledd 101 Proposals, with almost identical storyline. What worth mentioning here is the fact that ppl nonetheless fall for the same trick over and over again. Come to think of it, even the Oscar sensation "Life is beautiful" falls, more or less, in the same category: The persevering, heart-wrenching yet seemingly futile struggle by an insignificant struggle man (in its uttermost sense) and his eventual triumph. "Life is beautiful"carried more weight in the sense that what the man was fighting for was survival instead of love, not only his own but his son's as well, and eventually he gave up his life without a blink to save his son. What tugs ppl's heart here, probably more than anything else, is the ordeal the protagonist had to go thru with only doomed failure in sight, yet he fought on regardless, the heroic struggle wielded for a lost cause. Pit a man of trivial existence against the ruthless press of Fate, then it's guaranteed ppl can somehow relate to their own frustration in life. And his blind passion which time and time again prevented him from choosing the more sensible acceptence of failure and eventually brought down the seemingly invicible Fate to his feet is a quality of everyday heroism everybody dreams to have,and his triumph is the triumph for every man.
But the sad thing is, being a comedy, the story has to wrap up with a happy ending. This is where these movies cross the line from inspiring stories of ordinary life into the land of inplausible fairytale. In real life, 99% of the seemingly futile struggles are indeed futile, no matter how hard ppl try. This is why the Norse mythology, came into being with the same mentality but forfeit the unrealistic hope and chose to accept the ultimate failure in all the glories, is transcendent and thus assumed imortality. Here, heroism consummates in full with its death.
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