Hello friendship! And welcome to today's pseudo chick flick night. The movies I'm going to talk about today are all movies that I enjoy, however, they are also movies that imply however gently or less gently that love overcomes every obstacle! Including serious mental issues! Let's just all recognize that this is purely ridiculous and movies are meant for entertainment and then move on.
1. Silver Linings Playbook
I mean, this was a great movie, amirite! However, both of the lead actors were CRAY. I mean, so his character had bipolar, which, ok. But he doesn't medicate! I feel like movies featuring mental illness should state in some very plain way that when mentally ill people take medication and then feel better, they should KEEP TAKING IT. It's the medication that makes you feel better! I mean real life stories here, but srsly, take your medication. And her... I mean what is even her issue? I don't know, but anyway she's pretty off kilter, that's obvious. And then, at the end of the movie, he figures out that she loves him and he's ALL BETTER FROM BIPOLAR DISORDER. Like he stops being hate-ragey at his wife? I don't even know. And then epilogue they are both healthy and wonderful and the world is made of butterflies and sunshine.
2. Garden State
Ok, so full confession. I never loved this movie. I think I was over the whole manic pixie dream girl thing before it was even a thing(yea, take that hipsters). So, she is a MPDG, and a pathological liar. But it's all ok, because her gentleman caller(mourning the very recent loss of his disabled mother-A DISABILITY WHICH HE SORT OF CAUSED) loves her. So they live happily until next weekend when she cheats and lies about it and he finds out and leaves town forever. YEA. How about that for an epilogue!? That would actually be the plot of Garden State the TV show. Oh my god, please let that never be a thing.
3. Proof
I loved this movie. GOOP is cray! Isn't that fun and new! Side note, why isn't Jake Gyllenhaal in movies anymore? Anyway, so she has bipolar? It's unclear. But she's pretty! So obviously, she'll never have trouble finding love in the form of JG. Also, she's a genius! So then at the end, JG feels bad for, like I don't even know, thinking she wasn't a genius? So he apologizes or something and then she stands up to her sister and LOVE REIGNS SUPREME. Maybe I should do a Chick Flick Night for movies that imply beauty overcomes all obstacles. There would certainly be an embarrassment of riches in that category, I'll tell you that much for free.
4. Quigley Down Under
I haven't seen this in a while, so it might not be as entertaining as I remember. BUT, it does feature a woman who is dealing with the fact that she killed her own baby(accidentally) and got shipped to another CONTINENT by her husband. I mean I can't blame her for being off her rocker. Of course, the minute Tom Selleck shows interest, she is finally able to tell reality from fiction and her demons vanish. BECAUSE OF THE MUSTACHE. OBVIOUSLY.
