Love And Other Drugs (2010)

Just finished watching this one, Love And Other Drugs with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.

1996, Jamie, a smart guy loses his job at an electronics store after hooking up with his boss' wife. He soon turns to another career, drug rep, in a new town. Maggie is a free spirit who won't let anyone or anything near her. She has Parkinson's Disease and tries to keep everyone away so she can't get hurt. They crash, she trying to keep him away, he relentless trying to win her over.

So why did I like this movie?
The obvious answer would be because is a romantic comedy and I love those but it's not just that. What I like here is what happens underneath all that comedy.
You have a beautiful, smart, young woman with a disease without a cure, how do you deal with that? how do you deal with the fact that at 26 you have this problem and it won't go away? I've no idea. I guess she tried to protect herself from everyone, from more pain, from disappointment, from the pain of a broken heart.
On the other side we have Jamie, he's what you would call a jerk, or at least he looks like one. He turns out to be a good guy, one of those that cares a lot about you, that wants to help you no matter what.
What starts as just sex turns into love (she's not to happy about it at first) and than the weight of the illness crashes into them.
I think this happens with everyone in this situation, you try everything, every trial, every new experiment because there has to be a cure, it's not fair if there isn't one. That weight is just too much sometimes and that's what happened here, she breaks up because she can't take it, Parkinson's can't be her life.

What I really like is the fact that even after he got what he wanted, that big job, he just wanted her. Nothing like a little video to show you what is really important, he just wants her before anything else and that's what I love in these movies, that commitment.

It's going to be a hard road, it won't be fair, but it's their choice, it's their life.