The book is way better than the movie - if you are looking for a "slap in your face" effect, than a sweet marshmallow-y dream.
The movie is too hard trying to conjure a coherent fictional story from the book, which is in fact a Q&A style relationship guide book - so, the movie ends up with interweaving characters who know each other.
AND, the disappointment for me is that the movie adds a Hollywood happily ever after ending (as my friend said, the movie first slaps you in the face, then, gives you a candy in the end as comfort, while the book slaps you in the face and that's it, nothing). Such ending is totally opposite to what the book is saying all along, "you are not the exception, you are the rule".
With such an ending, the movie becomes a date movie and pleases all the couples who go and watch it as a date movie, I guess. If a film is made 100% like the book, it would be a HORROR movie instead.
So, why do I seem to know so much about a book called "He's Just Not That Into You"? A confession, I read it (at lightspeed, I remember, ha) at a time when I needed someone to tell me this:
"He's just not that into you".
Yes, he's just not that into me.
Probably, he was never into me, anyway.
1 comment:
haha...yes. the movie and the book have a totally different feel. but i liked it, it's a chick movie. i too read the book at lightspeed...standing in 三聯 one afternoon. Recommend another good book "The Rules".
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