How To Lose A Guy In 20 Days

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Romantic Comedies are fun to watch when you’re in love, or even when you’re heartbroken, but why are we always resorting to these movies as a pick-me-up? If we step back and take a look at all of the romantic comedies, there are similar aspects. All rom-coms end almost exactly the same, two people fall in love and have an extreme fallout before realizing their mistakes and reuniting. Although, upon reuniting, the female is almost always changing her plans to fit with the guy. We have all been dumped before, whether male or female, but let’s not pretend this is what actually happens. Rarely do guys act the way Ben did for Andie in How to Lose a Guy in 20 Days.
I grew up watching these kinds of movies, where the boy and girl fall in love at first sight, and they live happily ever after. Sadly, this is hardly the case. It may be reliant on the generation we live in now, but I have never dated someone whom I clicked with the
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This is very true with romantic comedies today, women who have a rough home life are depicted as the ones with low self esteem and need to be saved. In How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, we briefly get a glimpse of Andie’s home life (or lack there of) when they are in the bathroom of his parents’ house and she becomes emotional as a result of the love she saw in Ben’s family. In this particular scene, their relationship takes a turn as they become more emotionally involved after Ben sees Andie’s emotional side. We also get a glimpse into Andie’s friend Michelle’s love life, where she loses a guy because she is too emotionally involved. Andie and her friends laugh with Michelle because she cried during their first sexual encounter. Both of these parts of this film are making a point that women are too emotional in their relationship or dependent on a man’s