So I slept all day today, and I am about to sleep now. But before that, I just want to blog about this movie I've watched just a while ago. It was very interesting because somehow, I could relate myself with the lead lady. Well, that's kinda always the way. When I find a movie very interesting, I easily could get somewhere with the lead character relating to my own experiences.
The movie title is Bridesmaids (2011). It is about this woman in her mid-30s named Annie played by Kristen Wiig. She basically all things thrown at her face. Her bakeshop failed, her relationship just ended, her savings gone, and she was having an only-in-the-bed relationship with a rich guy. It was embarrassing for her at first, but she sucked it all up and live a happy life, or as she wanted it to be thought of. Her best friend Lillian, played by Maya Rudolph, was the only one helping her get through all of the miseries she has been having for a while. And then, Lillian got engaged.
That was when more things turned upside down for Annie. She was trying so hard to get in-touch with all of the wedding details since she obviously was Lillian's maid of honor, from the bridal shower to the wedding itself. But Lillian got another bridesmaids, and one of them was Helen who was a rich girl and the wife of the boss of Lillian's fiancee. As Annie and Helen were going at it against each other, obviously jealous of each other's unique friendship with Lillian, Annie knew that things were about to change. Since Annie messed up in the flight to Las Vegas, where the bachelorette party was supposed to take place, Lillian just asked Annie to stay put and stop thinking about the wedding. Lillian said she would just give all the stress of planning to Helen.
After that, she called Nathan, the cop who almost ticketed her because of her unfixed taillights, to have some drinks with her and hangout. They slept together and the next morning, Nathan had all of these baking supplies ready in his kitchen hoping to bring Annie's interest on baking. But Annie got all paranoid and just left, leaving Nathan broke and shattered. Then she got fired in her job in a jewelry shop, and then she was kicked out of her apartment. She moved into her mother's place.
Annie went to the bridal shower which was Parisian-themed, a concept that was originally hers but apparently was took over and upstaged by Helen. She got furious then when Helen upstaged Annie's gift which was a collection of their childhood memories. Helen gave Lillian a very expensive trip to Paris which was their dream as best friends. Annie could not contain the gravity of the situation already, messed the whole shower by shouting at Helen and Lillian, and destroying the cookies and food left at the garden. Lillian kicked her off the event, and even told her not to show up in her wedding. She went, and bumped with another car because of her unfixed taillights. She called Nathan for emergency and then told her he was very disappointed about everything she did, and did not. She then called it quits to her sexual partner.
Annie was in a downward spiral. She got a failed bakeshop, failed relationship, her savings gone, her sexual relationship just ended, fucked up her best friend's bachelorette party, upstaged by her nemesis, got fired in her only-source-of-income job, messed up in the bridal shower, broke up her best friend's faith on her, and messed her possible love up. All of these unfortunate circumstances come, and I am not saying little by little. These come into one's life at once, one time big time. It can be very devastating. I mean, who won't be devastated, right? Annie was. And everybody will be once they are hit by all of the things fucked up.
I have experienced that a whole ton of times. I was about to be kick out of my university because of my very low grades and almost exceeding failure limits. I could not be editor in my college publication. I messed up with my relationship with one person after the other. Friendships have shattered. I was not talking to my parents. These things made me curl up in my bed like a baby crying. I did not know what I was supposed to do, and I was blaming the whole universe about it. I always pointed finger to someone, to something just to get myself out of the fire. But I was wrong. Yes, the things I was pointing out that time might have something to do why I was messing up. Yet the ultimate reason was I; I letting these things affect me, I letting them crush me into pieces, and they all succeed ultimately. So one thing got fucked up, after the other, and the other. I could not pull myself together because I was hoping there could be someone over there to fight for me, for my wishes, for my dreams. Until one day I realized, nothing could be ever fixed if I would not get it fixed myself. And that was how the whole situation changed.
And in the movie, by changing her outlook in life, Annie was able to fix one aspect of hers, after the other. That was after she talked to somebody who was ready to listen, her best friend's fiancee's sister Megan, played by Megan McCarthy. And that is true; we just need someone to talk to and that will listen to every angst we have to say. That conversation will actually make us realize that what we are doing is wrong. That is why everything's off track. Just one conversation; honest-to-your-face, bitch-slap-like conversation.
And in the movie, by changing her outlook in life, Annie was able to fix one aspect of hers, after the other. That was after she talked to somebody who was ready to listen, her best friend's fiancee's sister Megan, played by Megan McCarthy. And that is true; we just need someone to talk to and that will listen to every angst we have to say. That conversation will actually make us realize that what we are doing is wrong. That is why everything's off track. Just one conversation; honest-to-your-face, bitch-slap-like conversation.
Sometimes, things go fucked up all at the same time. We don't know why, they just do. Crazy, right? But trust me, with a heart ready to accept things as they are, with a mind so clear ready to think straight about the solutions, and with a personality pulling a mature attitude ready to face and punch life in his face, things clean themselves up from the messes it took.
You know, sometimes, different things in our lives do not got the way we want it to. Sometimes, they change. Sometimes, they go all over the place. And it definitely will make us insane, and we cannot think clearly what to do, what else can fail, what are we doing wrong, what else can we do. But these questions will lead us nowhere. When you are the problem, you certainly are the solution, too. If things mess up at the same time, just take a deep breathe, get a good night sleep, and start working on those things one by one the next morning. This is an inevitable happening in life, and this is one turning point that when we get through of, we totally are a better, stronger person. Annie got everything cleared up; got a very decent love life, and got to attend her best friend's wedding as the maid of honor. Annie, in the movie, was not an exception, so neither am I, nor are you.
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