He's Just Not that Into You

One of my favorite romance movies! It's so funny and entertaining.

Jadi filmnya ini diadaptasi dari self-help book dengan judul yang sama, yang ditulis oleh Greg Bendhart dan Liz Tuccillo yang terinspirasi dari Sex and the City.
Ceritanya tentang 9 orang yang memiliki cerita love-life berbeda, but somehow connected to each other. Soal cerita panjangnya gue males :p

Ada Janine & Ben, pasangan yang not-so-happily married, lalu Ben mulai selingkuh dengan Anna, cewek yang ditemuinya saat berbelanja. Ketika Ben mulai dekat dengan Anna, Ben menyadari bahwa ia sebenarnya nggak siap untuk menikah. Pada akhirnya, (SPOILER ALERT!) Janine menceraikan Ben. (soal akibatnya tonton aja sendiri :p) Namun pada akhirnya, everyone's attention is drawn to Beth & Neil, yang akhirnya menikah dan pas lamarannya, bikin jealousss! :D

But my favorite couple is Gigi & Alex, because they have such unpredictable relationship! :D
Gigi yang berniat mencari Conor (teman kencannya) di sebuah club, dengan tidak sengaja bertemu Alex, yang merupakan sahabat Conor. Ia pun mulai memberikan saran soal kencan kepada Gigi. Lama-kelamaan, Gigi menyadari Alex menyukainya, tetapi Alex mengatakan ia sama sekali tidak tertarik kepada Gigi. Then Gigi said...

"I may dissect each little thing and put myself out there so much but at least that means that I still care. Oh! You've think you won because women are expendable to you. You may not get hurt or make an ass of yourself that way but you don't fall in love that way either. You have not won. You're alone. I may do a lot of stupid shit but I'm still a lot closer to love than you are."

Tetapi, Alex mulai memikirkan Gigi, malah sampai tidak bisa konsentrasi pada saat kerja. Suatu malam, Alex mengunjungi apartemen Gigi, minta maaf.

Gigi: [opens the door, thinking it's Bill] Did you forget something?
Alex: Yeah...
Gigi: Really? What did you forget?
Alex: [pulls out a promotional pen from his pocket] This.
Gigi: So you came all the way here at 11 o' clock in the night to give me a promotional pen?
Alex: Yeah... Yeah, I did. I thought I would come up with some really great excuse to get over here. That's how it's done, right?
Gigi: [smiles] Sometimes.
Alex: Look, I can't stop thinking about you. I... It's a problem. I drive by your place; I call and hang up; I've turned into...
Gigi: Me.
Alex: Yeah.
Gigi: A wise person once told me that if a guy wants to be with a girl, he will make it happen, no matter what.
Alex: That's true.
Gigi: But when I was hurling my body onto yours, you did not seem to want to make it happen.
Alex: Okay, yeah, here's the thing about that... You were right. I'd gotten so used to keeping myself at a safe distance from all these women and having the power that, that I didn't know what it felt like when I actually fell for one of them... I didn't know.
Gigi: Look, I just went out with your friend Bill. He might be just exactly what I need. No drama, he calls; he does what he says...
Alex: [stepping closer] I can do that stuff too...
Gigi: But you didn't! And that same wise person told me that I'm the rule. That I have to stop thinking that every guy will change, that I have to stop thinking that...
Gigi: [Alex kisses her]
[smiles]
Gigi: ... I'm the exception...
Alex: [whispers] You are *my* exception.
[they kiss again]

Such a sa-weeeeet conversation! Oh ya, pesan moral nya juga bagus lho...

"Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up: if a boy punches you he likes you, never try to trim your own bangs, and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. every movie we see, every story we're told implores us to wait for it: the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. but sometimes we're so focused on finding our happy ending we don't learn how to read the signs. how to tell the ones who want us from the ones who don't, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. and maybe a happy ending doesn't include a guy, maybe it's you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. maybe the happy ending is just moving on. or maybe the happy ending is this: knowing after all the unreturned phone calls and broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment... you never gave up hope. " Gigi

4/5