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[u16_girl]

Saw 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' tonight, and adored it. It's the kind of project that Apatow should continue focusing on: raunchy, hilarious stories that also manage to be sweet and full of heart, that are simultaneously ridiculous and true. In this case, of course, that mostly comes down to my boy Jason Segel, who wrote the script (and it says something about my attachment to actors that I left the theater feeling so proud of Segel, so happy that he accomplished this, lol). The characters were all real, from Segel's man-child who has to have his heart crushed before he realizes how unhappy he is with his place in life, and to realize how much more he can do, to Kristen Bell's Sarah Marshall, who is happily not portrayed as some sort of evil uber-bitch, but as someone who is deeply insecure and confused. Even Russell Brand's dopey rock star is just a guy who has a different outlook on life, knows what works for him, and is completely unapologetic about it (there is this nice moment though, where, despite initially fighting it, he wears this hideous shirt that Sarah buys him just to make her happy, showing that there is a bit of heart beneath his general hedonism).

I don't know, there are just some movies that you connect with, for whatever reason, and this was one of those for me. If we're sticking with the Apatow oeuvre, it's not quite on par with 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin', but I would honestly say that I preferred it to 'Knocked Up', possibly because the female characters were given a little more love and attention.

It also reaffirmed that 'Nothing Compares 2 U' is one of the greatest break-up songs of all time.