"I don't want not to make plans with you. I want to make plans with you"
Declan
Leap Year
2010
I just recently saw this film and I was impressed. It was cute, a little off the wall in the Hollywood spectrum, but it was a classic little fairy tale with anticipation, lust and of course heartfelt humor. Leap Year starred Amy Adams as Anna and Matthew Goode as Declan.
The storyline surfaced around a woman wanting to get married and her hesitant boyfriend who appeared always busy. John Lithgow plays Anna's father and tells her about this Irish tradition that women propose to their boyfriends on Leap Year in Dublin. When Anna's boyfriend goes away for business to Dublin, she takes a flight to surprise him and lands a little off the beaten path in a pub/innhouse owned by a lad named Declan.
Declan along with his quirky wit and passive ways, offers to take her to Dublin. Through the bumps in the road, the weather, the mis-steps and the journey, the two of them find one another in comparable positions and circumstances while traveling from bed and breakfast, to train stations, to inevitably missing the trains, and to losing the car as it rolls down a hill.
What I adored about this film was the sweet, touching way of these two characters who couldn't stand one another at first, and how they capture dthe heart of one another amidst all the turmoil.
It makes me reflect on love stories as a whole. It makes me recollect times when I couldn't stand someone, yet, I found their cute wit to be immensely profound and comforting.
Leap year only occurs every 4 years. Life happens in between those years. Life occurs when we least expect it, and how we know something we most want can only be in the stars. Yet, love is a gift of letting one in, and lust is a passion for wanted something to supposedly happen.
As we learn to accept situations and circumstances life gives us, we learn to let the rain fall, we learn to let the wrong turn become an adventure, and let the special moments shine sun through the clouds.
This film may have happened during the premise of a leap year, but, it was a sweet test of true love and going for what you want, even though sometimes what you want seems a bit idiotic to others. Even if that idiocracy is for the wrong reasons.
TIP:
Enter the amount, and click "Tip" to submit!
bobbot
Alpha Whiskey
Gary Gladstone
fingerlakeswanderer
Dennis Knight
Gabby Fox
Salon.com
Comments