"There's a man in your freezer."
Michael Felgate
Mickey Blue Eyes
1999
What would one do for the lengths of love? What would one do for the labors of love?
Often at times we find ourselves in compromising positions. Power over struggle, love over lust, relationships over circumstance, even family over rules.
Bending those rules, and stretching the boundaries can ultimately make mobsters in us all. We tend to find those insecurities in our choices as divinities in our retractions. Love can make us do a wonder of things, but, can one become caught up in the acceptance of ones family that it cost someone their morality?
Hugh Grant plays Michael Felgate, a man summoned by love, and sworn into the existence of a mafia stricken family. Hugh falls for the beautiful Gina Vitale (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and begins to see that her family genes are deeper and closer than any normal bond; they are as tight a debt as a mobster to a godfather.
This film was one of those Hugh Grant movies that we expect to see him as charming, and witty and a tad bit klutzy, yet, we also see him as a man caught up in romance, and torn between knowledge and what is rightfully wrong. I don't know for sure if this love story is in the books as a classic, but, it is one of those tension driven moments where sometimes you can't just pick who you fall in love with.
Chance is optimistic, failure is pessimistic. Perhaps the optimism is that lust is love and love becomes a game. Perhaps the pessimism is that lust is a game and love is just love without a pricetag.
If we chase around the mobsters of love, do we win knowing we've outsmarted the godfather? Perhaps we've just gambled a little too much on the outcome of the game. Perhaps love is blind, and sometimes it takes an offer with no refusal to see clearly.
Or at least to stand up to the big man on top.
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