
So seeing as how I was so lonely yesterday I was perusing our "On Demand" free movie selection. I was tempted by "Drive me Crazy" (you know that one with Melissa Joan Hart and that guy from Entourage...hey Nick wasn't home!) BUT I settled for "The Last Kiss". It has Zach Braff in it and he's in scrubs so I thought I would watch it.
Okay Point 1: Brief nudity does not mean what I thought it meant. It does mean there is enough nudity to be morally upsetting, but too fast for you to fast forward through it. So that was gross.
Point 2: I was DISGUSTED by the subject matter, but I had to finish to see how it would end to ascertain how offended I was going to be.
Summary: Zach Braff is living with his girlfriend who is in essence perfect and impregnates her. They are the perfect couple. He meets Rachel Bilson who is ten years younger than him and proceeds to put himself into situations with her where he will be tempted to sleep with her and he does. Oh, but just once. And then his girlfriend finds out and has a mental breakdown and confronts him with a knife (Which is what I would do if I found out Nick slept with a co-ed).
She does end up taking him back, I mean she is pregnant with his baby.
But here's the thing. This portrayed men as people who hate committment and babies and having families etc. This is so bogus. I cannot see Nick freaking out and leaving me because he impregnated me. But then again he loves the Lord.
When Zachs girlfriend has the mental breakdown because he cheated on her I could literally feel her pain (She was a good actress) because our society portrays sex as such a trivial thing, but he ripped her soul out of her body when he did that to her. I was disgusted that he would do that (and this was a movie folks) I mean I even yelled at the television calling Zach Braff's character a disgusting loser. But it all turns out hunky dorey in the end... BS. I mean, she really didn't have to take him back. I don't know what I would have done, (I don't have to worry about it, but still) This movie really got my "rankles up" (This might be a miller family expression and not known to the general public) I guess the whole movie was based on this cheating and characters around them have their own worldly problems with committment going on, but I wouldn't go into that. The one thing the movie got right is it showed him having to make a decision to go out with her and even to sleep with her. He made a choice and that was even more disgusting. Nick got this earful last night when he came home, but I thought I'd share it.
In summary, don't see the movie, it's foul and they drop the f bomb alot. It showed that cheating is something that rips someones soul apart. It's not so light as it is discussed usually. Don't have sex with coeds or your significant other will snap and wave a knife at you.
Sorry if that was ridiculous, but I really had to rant.
Love, Kaley
1 comment:
I am really sorry you had to suffer through that. I'm ashamed at Zach Braff for a)making a dud after such gems as Scrubs and Garden State, b)disgusted by the way cheating is okay enough to make a movie about, and c)ashamed to admit that I also peruse OnDemand and actually considered this movie.
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