Story from Multiple Eyes

What is it about:

I took that from IMDB.com and the photo from : http://www.allmoviephoto.com/photo/2010_letters_to_juliet_001_big.html

Review in points because I am lazy to type in a flowing, easy to understand manners.

* A very sweet romantic comedy. Its more sweet than funny though. Not chic lit-ty enough though this maybe a good thing here in this movie.

* Amanday Seyfried is cute and have big boobs. Her acting needs polishing, though she is getting there. I absolutely adore her.

* Christopher Egan is ridiculously Aryan looking. His character is most effective and charming when he is in his most snarky self.

* At the start it kinda meander a bit and I was just wondering if I had made a mistake paying for a movie ticket. Then the delightful point in the movie happened just in time when Vanessa Redgrave came into the screen. She is like a breath of fresh air. Even at 73.

* The scenery shown here is absolutely breathtaking. I feel like going there and never coming back.

* Spoiler alert: I quite like that they show there is no real villain in Sophie failed relationship with her fiance.

* Sophie backstory (family background) would explained itself why she stay in the relationship. So where at first I was annoyed on how accepting she is on how her fiance treated her, I realized the reason afterwards though I did think she could have portrayed herself differently in that earlier scenes. Ah well.

* A nice lovely movie to watch if you get tired of seeing big action adventure, violence or depressing ending.

* Yes, it would be no surprise to anybody that everyone got a happy ending, because a sad ending to the elderly couple is just too heartless after time had teared them apart for 50 years. And it's just silly to not just put the 2 younger couple together after all the effort in putting the elderly couple together, right.  

* The Taylor Swift song "Love Story" should not have surprised me, though it is in place here with all its Romeo and Juliet reference rather than her songs in Valentine Day.

In summary: I came for Seyfried cuteness but was won over by Vanessa Redgrave subtle charm. Damn. Now I want to watch Camelot.



Passing thought: Though I did think it is a weird concept for me to think someone writing their woes and asked somebody else the solution? Like I was always perplexed, reading all these Aunt Agony advice columns. I always thought, they themselves know the answers but are just afraid of the solutions. And why would you want an advice from Juliet, a famed doomed lover and decidedly an awful decision maker.