I just got back from The Backup Plan. I think that one of the best investments a movie can make is in the guy who cuts the preview. That movie had such potential but it failed to deliver (HARHAR). JLo’s comeback should’ve been so much more than a dramatization of her baby story! Ugh so many things I could bitch about, but the thing that got me to the cinema (aside from her costar shirtless on a tractor!!) was the idea that this was a successful young woman who hadn’t found the right guy and was progressing regardless of whether or not she has a guy there to help her. 

It was an interesting example of everyone’s favourite saying about love, it happens when you’re busy making other plans, just like everything in life. You have to forget you want it and then it shows up. I think I am begrudgingly coming to accept this, then the question becomes, how do i forget about wanting to fall in love? Bad scripting and stillborn sexual chemistry aside, The Backup Plan gives me a bit of an answer, you just get creative and go about it from another direction. Sublimate! the Freudians would yell!

JLo’s character stays motivated, she has goals. Even if the things she pursues  (like a test tube baby) are deviations from what she may have chosen originally, she has a rich, full life. This blog and the cat that has finally learned how to just fall asleep on my lap are sort of my versions of this. Maybe I would prefer to have a boyfriend and no need to write this stuff out, or at the time I might’ve wished that all the kittens were adopted right away, but looking back, I’d rather have a reason to write and a soft cat on my knee than not. For now.

I’m backing this up and loving the puns, Annik