Love and other Drugs.

Love and other Drugs.

Man(Jake Gyllenhall) meets girl(Anne Hathaway).He is a drug rep. She has Parkinsons......

wow

It feels like a conspiracy. It may be word for word interpretation of the book that the film is based on,but i don't think it is. Otherwise its not best seller but more a classy smut book for ladies who like to cry while there gentlemen masturbate as they are women are so dull that the find this emotional stimulating. This is a film about a relationship but its the audiences relationship with

romantic fantasy and what a filmmaker is entitled to get away with to involve a demographic into

a story to purposefully hate them for their failings about what they need to find stimulating. There is coarse nudity,huge emotional curves that are pretty straight,it was just sign posted for a roundabout in 400 miles. Its a film where beautiful people are happy where ugly people are sad and useless(but can be tech savy millionaires if they choose),even the women,Anne Hathaway who suffers from Parkinson's disease at 26... come off a little too man easy going but then again the disease that with 4mins of editing could be taken out if test audiences felt it was wrong,a little trimming and a few scenes to redirect the ending and you have a fun rom com where noone one of known any better. Its all filler all the time,it has moments to criticizes the medical establishment but swerves at the last minute to making a gag out of it rather than ever have any courage to tackle any issue,targeting doctors more than the giant evil conglomerate who come off so lightly it feels a little too cosy and in social terms of what the film-makers laid out for themselves to films and what they eventually got...i can not presume to understand how they thought this was in any way going to work.A romantic film staring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway is fine in itself they had simple chemistry together in Valentines day,a film compared to this deservers so much more respect as all it aimed to do was to tell stupid love vignettes and sell it to girls. This uses illness to tell a story.Its momentum comes from suffering,and abusing such suffering,the film actually references going to Canada to buy cheaper mediation,yet never challenges why it is,it merely sells it as Cocoon on a bus.

Performance wise..its nothing. Direction is flaccid,from someone who believes he is making a statement but wants to sell it to reach the widest possible audience with an anodyne romance,and fails to convince anyone it matter on any level,unless you like your films hinged on a final one line that gives it a little bit of hope,until you recall the films opening,Jake as a electronics salesman being so alarming contrived to sell the rest of the film on his charm the whole filmed failed as he is not a salesman like Tom Cruise/George Clooney approach of being that salesman naturally and here Jake forces everything that he feels quite seedy and laughable.