I’ve been watching a lot of “Indie” films off late, under the influence of my brother. One of the recent ones that I watched was “2 Days in Paris”.
Succinctly, the movie is about a NY based couple (Marion and Jack) trying to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion’s parents and several of her ex-boyfriends! I found it as a smart and funny respite from most of the romantic comedies that I have watched in recent times and certainly grows on my love for movies with narrations. Adam Goldberg is at his quirky best and Julie Delpy doesn’t fail to impress on her directorial debut.
Although the movie is funny throughout, it has a very emotional and riveting ending. The closing narration by Marion about aging, loneliness and love brings out the dark and true aspects of the human life.
Marion: It always fascinated me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all, nothing. It hurts so much. When I feel someone is going to leave me, I have a tendency to break up first before I get to hear the whole thing. Here it is. One more, one less. Another wasted love story. I really love this one. When I think that it’s over, that I'll never see him again like this... well yes, I'll bump into him, we'll meet our new boyfriend and girlfriend, act as if we had never been together, then we'll slowly think of each other less and less until we forget each other completely. Almost. Always the same for me. Break up, break down. Drunk up, fool around. Meet one guy, then another. Forget the one and only. Then after a few months of total emptiness start again to look for true love, desperately look everywhere and after two years of loneliness meet a new love and swear it is the one, until that one is gone as well. There's a moment in life where you can't recover any more from another break-up. And even if this person bugs you sixty percent of the time, well you still can’t live without him. And even if he wakes you up every day by sneezing right in your face, well you love his sneezes more than anyone else's kisses.
I feel, you might be with a person for 2 years or 20 years. But, in the end, it’s all about how you feel about it. You either want it or not. Plain and Simple.
