Something Borrowed | Clare

My sister had a copy of the movie Something Borrowed in her laptop. I heard of the movie before but was not really interested in it until I became a fan of Ginny Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret on Once Upon a Time. After becoming a fan, I just had to see the movie.

Something Borrowed is about a girl who has been in love with the boyfriend of her best friend. On the night of their engagement party, she discovers that the boyfriend (who was also her friend in law school) was actually in love with her too but thought that she wasn’t interested in him. The story then moves on from there to a secret relationship to eventually (you guessed it) having the two end up together.

It was hard for me not to relate to the movie. Rachel was in her 30s and was still single. She was in a job she wasn’t happy with but can’t get herself to give it up. She was also the plain jane next to her life of the party best friend. All of those things I can easily relate to. [If this were a video, this is the part where you insert me saying, “That is SO me!”]

Have you ever gone down a road, far down and wondered, maybe it wasn’t what you want?

That’s the point. Be late. Better yet, quit. At least it would be a decision. You’re all going to hell anyway, so you might as well do something for yourself. For once. You deserve to be happy.

I’m at that stage where I wonder if where I am is really where I want to be, so when those two lines were delivered in the movie, I felt like the characters were speaking to me. Maybe this is just mid-life crisis. Maybe I just want to switch things up because my life has been the same thing for too long. I don’t know…I just know those lines really made me think about things.

But back to the movie: I have to admit that I am not completely sold on the character Dex, the boyfriend. If he was really in love with Ginny’s character Rachel,even if she did not seem interested in him, did he really have to have a relationship with HER best friend to the point of him proposing to her? Why her best friend, of all people?

I also did not like the part where he was seeing Rachel behind his girlfriend’s back and going through the motions of marriage at the same time. That was low. Sure, he did call it off eventually but it sure took him a while. It just didn’t seem fair to Rachel. Still, Colin Egglesfield is such a cute guy it was hard to stay pissed at him for long.

BUT, if I could decide, it would be nice if she ended up with John Krasinski’s character because he was the friend who loved her so long and never gave up on her even if she did not love him back. I think it would have been predictable if she just all of a sudden fell in love with Kransinski’s character and it wouldn’t have been realistic considering she was in love with Dex all along.

For a chick flick, this movie had its moments but I just felt there was something missing. It was easy to relate to in a lot of ways but I guess the giddy feeling I usually get when I watch romantic movies just wasn’t there. I didn’t like the ending either.

The best part of the movie was when the best friends danced to Push It by Salt n Pepa — I think that says something considering it’s a romantic movie. I leave you with a video of that scene. Enjoy!

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