The Last Kiss.
The Last Kiss - Starring Zach Braff, Rachel Bilson, Blythe Danner and Casey Affleck.
Sit and think about it. Really think. Who do you want to be the LAST kiss you'll ever have? The last person you'll ever truly share a kiss with? Spouses everywhere are just hoping your saying that the woman or the man you marry is the one you want to be the last person you'll ever kiss, the last person you'll ever sleep with, the person you desire to spend the rest of your life with.
That's the basic on this new movie by Zach Braff, the genius who brought us Garden State, definitly one of the best movies I've ever seen, one of the best ever made. One of the qualities present in movies he writes, directs or even simply stars in, is that it is absolutely counted upon that the characters are deep, that the problems are normal problems, and that, when the last frame rolls through, you will be thinking, that you'll walk out of the movie changed somehow. Its a beautiful experience, those who have seen Garden State remember the sense you came away with, that this man had finally found what he was looking for, that even though everything sucked, everything was confusing, he came out with one things for sure in the end, that life is full of unpredictable things and all you can do is be sure of just one and the rest will fall into place.
That's the plot here, The Last Kiss deals with growing up. With making that decision to walk headfirst into marriage and adulthood and all the trappings that come with it, buying a house, marrying that one girl and getting the career to live happily ever after. Enter that surging fear that your making the wrong decision. A quote from the movie reads 'Lately I've been feeling like everything in my life is planned out, there are no more surprises.' Its always been my fear, since things in my life came crashing down not to long ago I realized that I had planned everything out, my kids, my husband, my life, that I --Jamie, the girl no one can predict, the girl who goes swimming at midnight because she couldn't sleep and was cold in her apartment-- had planned myself out to be a housewife. A housewife! I cant even imagine it now, I would go insane. I'm a free spirit, I want to travel, I want to learn and listen. I want to find the one whose absolutely the one for me and settle down and be with them, yes, but I know that the fire that I have, the one that makes me so different from most of the girls my age who are just looking to get married and have kids, I know that fire is a part of me. That I'll never be able to sit at home and wait on my husband hand and foot. My friends often tell me, to my great dismay and their great laughter, that I'm the girl the husbands will want to have the affair with, that I'm the risky sassy girl that a husband will seek out after his wife becomes less enticing and more of a commodity. Which makes me think that no one will want to marry me, of course I wont be the girl that allows a man to cheat on his wife with, but I wonder if its that I'm TOO spirited, which I know now is a gift from God and that when the right guy comes along he'll know how to deal with it, that I, not him will be the one that becomes ready to settle down.
'Life moves way too fast nowadays, we start freaking out a lot sooner than our parents did.' Isn't that true as well? Life is so quick, we're so sure nowadays that what we want that what we get is exactly what we desired. What if its not? What if we get to a certain point and turn around and see that what we thought we wanted wasn't right for us? We're so quick to act, and so often we don't stop to look at the things around us. No wonder we have such a divorce rate, such broken homes, we think, hey, this guy, hes going to complete me, that once we're together and married everything will just fall into place. No matter than you needed to know yourself before you added another person onto you. Why do you think so many of those realationships in high school fail in college? Your not the same person now as you were when you were 16, would you trust your 16 year old decisions now? Probably not. Life changes, people change. Marriage and love requires understanding that no one is perfect, that guy or girl is just as human as you, when you go to sleep he snores and she probably drools a little bit. Moods swing, words are thrown, problems arise, what counts, what really counts is that at the end of the day you sit together and work them out. Companionship is what a marriage is. An understanding that two grown people, mature in age and knowledgeable of themselves and who they are, desire to be with another who can hold their hand and walk with them through life acting as a support when you are strong and a cushion to fall back onto when you are weak, someone who, for better or worst has sworn to stand by you forever, no questions asked. Isn't that what life is all about? Loving God, loving yourself and loving the one He has so graciously prepared for you.
It scares me to think that hey, in the next five or six years I could be married, and attached for the rest of my life. I think that's what draws me so close to this movie. I love Zach Braff, of course, I think hes a genius and innovator in the film world, hes intelligent and handsome and all of the things draw me to a great star. But my absolute favorite thing about him is his careful attention to normalcy, hes said in interviews before he doesn't want to make some movie about things that would never happen to a normal person. Hes said consistently that his concerns and creativity lie in the sphere of the extraordinary things that make being a human so difficult and yet so beautiful. Garden State was a perfect example of that. This next movie just brings it closer. Everyone has doubts, everyone loves. What counts is that when it comes right down to that one, that person that you absolutely love and want to spend the rest of your life with, everything else is small, you realize that life doesn't cease to be exciting once you've gotten everything society deems you need to be content. That life, in all its sadness and struggle is beautiful, more beautiful than sunrises or sunsets, its beautiful in the tears that we shed, the blood that we shed and the kisses that we share. At the end of our lives we want to look back and say, yes, I lived, I traveled, I saw and learned and listened, but most importantly of all, I loved, and I loved with all that I have. In the end that's what counts, not the treasures you laid up inn the world, but the love that you gave...
Sit and think about it. Really think. Who do you want to be the LAST kiss you'll ever have? The last person you'll ever truly share a kiss with? Spouses everywhere are just hoping your saying that the woman or the man you marry is the one you want to be the last person you'll ever kiss, the last person you'll ever sleep with, the person you desire to spend the rest of your life with.
That's the basic on this new movie by Zach Braff, the genius who brought us Garden State, definitly one of the best movies I've ever seen, one of the best ever made. One of the qualities present in movies he writes, directs or even simply stars in, is that it is absolutely counted upon that the characters are deep, that the problems are normal problems, and that, when the last frame rolls through, you will be thinking, that you'll walk out of the movie changed somehow. Its a beautiful experience, those who have seen Garden State remember the sense you came away with, that this man had finally found what he was looking for, that even though everything sucked, everything was confusing, he came out with one things for sure in the end, that life is full of unpredictable things and all you can do is be sure of just one and the rest will fall into place.
That's the plot here, The Last Kiss deals with growing up. With making that decision to walk headfirst into marriage and adulthood and all the trappings that come with it, buying a house, marrying that one girl and getting the career to live happily ever after. Enter that surging fear that your making the wrong decision. A quote from the movie reads 'Lately I've been feeling like everything in my life is planned out, there are no more surprises.' Its always been my fear, since things in my life came crashing down not to long ago I realized that I had planned everything out, my kids, my husband, my life, that I --Jamie, the girl no one can predict, the girl who goes swimming at midnight because she couldn't sleep and was cold in her apartment-- had planned myself out to be a housewife. A housewife! I cant even imagine it now, I would go insane. I'm a free spirit, I want to travel, I want to learn and listen. I want to find the one whose absolutely the one for me and settle down and be with them, yes, but I know that the fire that I have, the one that makes me so different from most of the girls my age who are just looking to get married and have kids, I know that fire is a part of me. That I'll never be able to sit at home and wait on my husband hand and foot. My friends often tell me, to my great dismay and their great laughter, that I'm the girl the husbands will want to have the affair with, that I'm the risky sassy girl that a husband will seek out after his wife becomes less enticing and more of a commodity. Which makes me think that no one will want to marry me, of course I wont be the girl that allows a man to cheat on his wife with, but I wonder if its that I'm TOO spirited, which I know now is a gift from God and that when the right guy comes along he'll know how to deal with it, that I, not him will be the one that becomes ready to settle down.
'Life moves way too fast nowadays, we start freaking out a lot sooner than our parents did.' Isn't that true as well? Life is so quick, we're so sure nowadays that what we want that what we get is exactly what we desired. What if its not? What if we get to a certain point and turn around and see that what we thought we wanted wasn't right for us? We're so quick to act, and so often we don't stop to look at the things around us. No wonder we have such a divorce rate, such broken homes, we think, hey, this guy, hes going to complete me, that once we're together and married everything will just fall into place. No matter than you needed to know yourself before you added another person onto you. Why do you think so many of those realationships in high school fail in college? Your not the same person now as you were when you were 16, would you trust your 16 year old decisions now? Probably not. Life changes, people change. Marriage and love requires understanding that no one is perfect, that guy or girl is just as human as you, when you go to sleep he snores and she probably drools a little bit. Moods swing, words are thrown, problems arise, what counts, what really counts is that at the end of the day you sit together and work them out. Companionship is what a marriage is. An understanding that two grown people, mature in age and knowledgeable of themselves and who they are, desire to be with another who can hold their hand and walk with them through life acting as a support when you are strong and a cushion to fall back onto when you are weak, someone who, for better or worst has sworn to stand by you forever, no questions asked. Isn't that what life is all about? Loving God, loving yourself and loving the one He has so graciously prepared for you.
It scares me to think that hey, in the next five or six years I could be married, and attached for the rest of my life. I think that's what draws me so close to this movie. I love Zach Braff, of course, I think hes a genius and innovator in the film world, hes intelligent and handsome and all of the things draw me to a great star. But my absolute favorite thing about him is his careful attention to normalcy, hes said in interviews before he doesn't want to make some movie about things that would never happen to a normal person. Hes said consistently that his concerns and creativity lie in the sphere of the extraordinary things that make being a human so difficult and yet so beautiful. Garden State was a perfect example of that. This next movie just brings it closer. Everyone has doubts, everyone loves. What counts is that when it comes right down to that one, that person that you absolutely love and want to spend the rest of your life with, everything else is small, you realize that life doesn't cease to be exciting once you've gotten everything society deems you need to be content. That life, in all its sadness and struggle is beautiful, more beautiful than sunrises or sunsets, its beautiful in the tears that we shed, the blood that we shed and the kisses that we share. At the end of our lives we want to look back and say, yes, I lived, I traveled, I saw and learned and listened, but most importantly of all, I loved, and I loved with all that I have. In the end that's what counts, not the treasures you laid up inn the world, but the love that you gave...
'Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. and so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across centuries? Will strangers hear our names and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?'
-Odysseus
-Odysseus
posted by Jamie | 11:24 PM
2 Comments:
I agree with you about the genius of Zach Braff. I loved Garden State and will have to check out this new film of his. It's funny that you think you're too spirited and perhaps that's why you aren't "settled" (whatever that is) with anyone. I think the opposite. I think I'm too normal or "perfect wife material" or something that makes me completely uninteresting. I have no spice. Isn't it funny? I guess it goes to show you that we never know what makes other people tick.
1. I'm all about some "Scrubs" and Garden State was quite enjoyable, but genius?
2. This isn't the 1950's. Not every guys is looking for Suzy Homemaker. Personally, I'd much rather marry a girl who has her own ideas, interests, and career than someone whose only plans in life are cooking, cleaning, and changing diapers. From talking to other guys, I really don't think I'm alone on that one either.
3. Elizabeth, you are definitely not "too normal." I mean seriously...have you met you?
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