The Last Kiss

On Saturday i went with Boyfriend and Friend C to see "The Last Kiss" the new Zach Braff flick hat has gotten really good reviews and is supposed to be all around fabulous. But while the soundtrackis excellent (if you're into that angsty emo I-wear-a-hoodie-with-everything scene) the movie didn't live up to it. Essentially Zach Braff plays a character who is on the verge of 30 and has a now- pregnant girlfriend he can't decide if he wants to marry. What I found to be teh most realistic aspect of Jenna (Jacinda Barrett) is that while at the beginning of the movie she retends she wants the same things as her boyfriend, like not getting married, it turns out that she's just like all the other women out there who want to be married and say otherwise. I mean, I have a few friends who are serious about the staying single for life thing, but most know that if they met Mr. Right they would jump on him. And for good reason, I might add!

But Jenna has gotten herself into quite a predicament. She's almost engaged and pregnant and heading around to different friend's weddings with her boyfriend while he continues to avoid the subject of buying a house and really beginning a new life together. Thus enters Rachel Bilson as Kim, a sophmore at the local University who obviously has a thing for older men who are on the verge of a life crisis. She sits with him up in this treehouse drinking beer and saying that she can't imagine a life with no more surprises (essentially what she means is sex with the same person for the rest of his life). So then he's scared. Yes he has this really great girlfriend who is smart and beautiful and wants to have his kid, but more tempting is this tiny, flighty, don't hold me back my roommate's out for the night college kid.

So he begins a kind of affair with her. Meaning that thy're hanging out without him telling his girlfriend. That he begins lying to this woman he wants to be with. It becomes this twisted trap as his friends either begin to develop relationships or the ones they're in begin to fall apart.

The point of the movie is that nothing is guaranteed. And that, even though you can love someone with what you think is everything you have, you might be able to screw it up in a moment. My boyfriend and friend hated it. Without a doubt, and he spent the rest of saturday humming The Shins and looking "unsatisfied with life". Which was hilarious. But while I definitely didn't like it, I thought there were good scenes. Really good scenes that made me grateful to be in the life i'm in.