Sex scene time! It’s actually very awkward and sweet and realistic, if “realism” can include losing your virginity to Ryan Gosling.Somehow, I had repressed until this viewing that the giant, old house that Noah takes Allie to-the one he dreams of buying and fixing up-is, uh, on a plantation.(Good luck finding a boyfriend there, sweetie!) The seed is planted that Allie is going away to Sarah Lawrence College at the end of the summer. Allie’s rich, mean dad, who sports one of the most-luxurious mustaches ever seen on film, is not on board with Noah at all, because he works at the lumberyard.She meets his dad, they kiss a lot, and the immortal-and nonsensical-line, “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird,” is uttered. I have to say, the chemistry between Gosling and McAdams still holds up, 16 years later. Dumb! Nonetheless, soon they’re totes Dating with a capital D. Noah, Noted Bad Boy™, convinces her to lie in the middle of the road and watch the traffic lights change. Allie describes a very rigorous routine of tennis, dance, piano, French lessons, et cetera, that I know is supposed to signal that she’s over-scheduled and uptight, but all I feel is jealousy of the fact that someone is sponsoring her self-improvement.Although it is kind of sexy when he tells Allie, “I can be whatever you want.” His eyes are weirdly vacant (no offense, Gosling) and his continuing courtship of Allie in spite of her ambivalence is just not getting it done for me.
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