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Who here believes in true love? That we are meant to be together regardless of all the things in the world? Who here believes that just another chance and things would have turned out so differently?
The producers, director/s and actors of the movie When we first met surely did/do.
So let us delve right into it. I will try my best to not give out spoilers. I will try.
Movie name - When we first met.
Genre - RomCom
Actors - Adam DeVine (The baby sitter from modern family.) , Alexandra Daddario (The fighting goddess from percy jackson movies) ,Shelley Hennig ,Andrew Bachelor ,Robbie Amell (From the movie The DUFF)
The world works in the funniest of ways. Or the most horrible. Honestly it is how you see it. I see both most of the time. That is the feeling Adam devine expresses rather well in the opening scene. Iconic I would say. A scene which was a total surprise. The melodramatic feeling is torn apart as we feel bad or laugh at the fate of someone and possible also at others like him IRL. I wonder if it is me.
The next few scenes are the ones which carry the story forward, making you feel bad for him. Then comes the twist. Oh yes there is another twist. This one is the whole premise of the movie. The chance to change the die cast onto this never ending universe by the little humans. A chance to make things right, undo your mistakes , a chance to grasp the universe. Some of you may have guessed what that means . Keep it to yourself.
If someone remembers this dialog from Transformer revenge of the fallen.
Hey! You ever have a song stuck in your head? Its like the worst song ever, but you cant help but whistle it or sing it cause it repeats itself, repeats itself, repeats itself, repeats itself, repeats itself, repeats itself.
So, so apt.
Try till you succeed. Practice makes you better. All true. All, right. Not here. Not in this mad, crazy and stupid world. Not in the place where fate is written. Adam, struggles, fights. His eyes set on the prize, the one thing he loves or thinks he does. The lengths he goes to get what he wants, tearing apart his being, himself. Becoming something he never wanted to become and calling the people hurt as collateral is what some of us do. The failures mount, a mountain pressing upon him until he realizes. The one constant in the upside down world he has been chasing has been talking to him the whole time. Smiling. There in his misery. In his happiness. There for him. The realization would also teach him another thing. Time will progress at its own pace. Things will happen when they need to happen. You just need to work on yourself.
Some of what I have described sounds dark but its a romcom I assure you. I just do not like to give away the story.
It is a movie which you should definitely watch. A lot of us will relate to it. A lot of us can learn from it. A lot of us should learn from it.
Ratings
Love - 3 imagins
funny 2 imagins
plot - 5 imagins
romcom - 4 imagins
Overall rating of 4 imagins. Watch the movie. It is exclusively on netflix afaik.
Have a good time.