Love and Other Drugs *spoilers*
Like most romantic comedy's or dramas this movie has it's big heartfelt bringing the world to rights speeches but when you look at it's core, the parallels to real life are quite remarkable and I found myself relating to it much more than I thought I would going into it.
Here is the basic IMDB description -
"Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love."
What that synopsis doesn't tell you is that Maggie's character has Parkinsons Disease and that the story is not only about their evolving love but dealing with the Maggies illness as she gets worse.
I saw massive parallels in this story to myself and Greggs relationship and I must admit I did cry a few times during it. Maybe I'm seeing similarities where there aren't any though. Like Gregg and I in the film they start seeing each other but only on a fun basis, nothing serious!! As time goes on though feeling develop and you become more deeply involved than you ever intended. There is a scene in the movie where she says to him something along the lines of "This is the first time in my life I've not felt alone" I think I've actually said this to Gregg :) It's funny though it completely taken me back to the time before transplant when I need Gregg there for me much more than he needed me. I remember one night a good few months into our relationships and we were supposed to be going out with a couple of my cousins but I was just so tired that when Gregg arrived I could hardley get out of bed, he got a little annoyed at me for not texting him to say I was feeling rough and not up to going out. I got really upset and told him that he should go out there and find a girl who wouldn't hold him back like I would but Gregg told me to stop thinking like that and if he wanted to be with someone else he would be. Like Jamie in the movie Gregg doesn't know how special he is he thinks that all guys would stick by someone who was in my position but we know better, he's a diamond in a very large pile of coal!!
She says to him in the movie "I've so many things still to see" and he says to her "You will but I might have to carry you" I believe 100% that Gregg would carry me if I needed him to and I would do the same for him.
I'm not saying we are both perfect or our relationship will last forever but just now is enough for me at the moment and just now I love him to bits.
Sorry for the cheese guys but I had to go there.
V xx
Here is the basic IMDB description -
"Maggie (Hathaway) is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie (Gyllenhaal), whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love."
What that synopsis doesn't tell you is that Maggie's character has Parkinsons Disease and that the story is not only about their evolving love but dealing with the Maggies illness as she gets worse.
I saw massive parallels in this story to myself and Greggs relationship and I must admit I did cry a few times during it. Maybe I'm seeing similarities where there aren't any though. Like Gregg and I in the film they start seeing each other but only on a fun basis, nothing serious!! As time goes on though feeling develop and you become more deeply involved than you ever intended. There is a scene in the movie where she says to him something along the lines of "This is the first time in my life I've not felt alone" I think I've actually said this to Gregg :) It's funny though it completely taken me back to the time before transplant when I need Gregg there for me much more than he needed me. I remember one night a good few months into our relationships and we were supposed to be going out with a couple of my cousins but I was just so tired that when Gregg arrived I could hardley get out of bed, he got a little annoyed at me for not texting him to say I was feeling rough and not up to going out. I got really upset and told him that he should go out there and find a girl who wouldn't hold him back like I would but Gregg told me to stop thinking like that and if he wanted to be with someone else he would be. Like Jamie in the movie Gregg doesn't know how special he is he thinks that all guys would stick by someone who was in my position but we know better, he's a diamond in a very large pile of coal!!
She says to him in the movie "I've so many things still to see" and he says to her "You will but I might have to carry you" I believe 100% that Gregg would carry me if I needed him to and I would do the same for him.
I'm not saying we are both perfect or our relationship will last forever but just now is enough for me at the moment and just now I love him to bits.
Sorry for the cheese guys but I had to go there.
V xx