Woah. Just imagine. If one is to lose years of memory, how would that change his or her life and those around? While facts of life like who the parents are do not change over time, our recent hobbies, our career, love life, recently acquired skills, friends, things that we shouldn’t have done but did, and things that we should have done but didn’t do.
That’s why my friends, blogging is good. While one may forget where he or she stores the diary (if you have one), a website is [more or less] always there. I see blogging as an extension of my memory, as well as the memory of some of those who are around me.
I guess reading recent events that one has forgotten is not the same as restoring one’s memory. It is not the same as living it, is it? And here we are, a movie inspired by true events. The Vow tells a story of a married couple. After a road accident, the wife has lost her recent memory. To the new her, the husband is a stranger and her ex-fiance still gives her butterflies in the stomach. The recent life changing decisions, all wiped off from her memory. Given this unfortunately event, can the husband win his wife’s love the second time?
All along, I thought The Vow was a romance comedy. OK, comedy or not, it is a technical definition. At the end of the movie, inside the theater, TK on my left said, “This is not a comedy”. Cynthia on the right said, “This is not a comedy”. Fine. Cynthia did cry. It is an emotional drama. There are tons of on-screen chemistry between the main characters, in a moving plot. We felt the pain and joy, and everything else in between.
I am a fan of Rachel McAdams. To me, she could well be one of the most charming actresses in Hollywood. Cynthia seems quite pleased with the rather handsome looking Tatum, whom I wish he would supplement his acting with some danceing (he is good at it I remember). The Vow is about seeing a glass half empty or half full. It is a story of a second chance not to be used to wipe off the past, but to relive the good and the bad once again.