Definitely, Maybe [Review]

Definitely, Maybe is definitely going on my top list. Maybe.

I just found it this very morning when I was trying to delete some movies from my directory – movies that I thought would be too not-my-genre, which usually is a movie I wouldn’t want to spend two hours dedicated into it. After I saw the folder, I thought I probably had watched this movie and had found it uninteresting so I couldn’t even remember whether I’ve watched it or not and what the story is about. So I opened it to make sure myself, and realised that, in fact, I haven’t – and I should definitely watch it tonight since the genre turned out to be romantic comedy, my ultimate favourite.

By ‘tonight’ means after all my work is done and I’m already lying on my bed, ready for the two hours of watching something. But that’s not what happened. This morning I couldn’t find any Pause or Stop button whatsoever so I could postpone to watch it later.

And I didn’t regret it at all.

So here it comes.

I love every single details this movie has. The story is simple, beautiful, and balanced. God! How I love the fact that I could have the opportunity to watch this kind of ‘awakening’ storyline in my age, because you know… we all sort of need that. I love how the story unfolds each of the three women, all have the equal part of William’s life with only one of them, at the end, is whom he finds he have always wanted to go back to. I love all the songs and the movie score (ALL OF THEM – really!). The frame story of Will’s adorable, if not a little annoying, daughter Maya is what I also like most from the movie. I mean, the way she realizes something very important in her dad’s story is so brilliant!

Speaking of the women Will has in his life, I think we all could find our reflection in at least one of them. The first love, the best friend, and the woman we dated seriously. So which one is usually the truest love of the main character? Every story is not always the same, but at least Will teaches us that love at some part is indeed complicated, but if we just be honest to our self: it’s actually pretty simple.

Not that simple for us, though, as we have to make our own bet on who will be Will’s ‘truest’.

Rachel Weisz is my ultimate favourite based on her previous works (and her admirable beauty, of course, since I’d ever gone far by declaring her as one of the most beautiful women standing), but my heart totally goes to April. I could definitely find some parts of myself on her – yeah you could guess which ones – and I found herself as my ideal one, someone that would definitely be my inspiration. Emily is my least favourite, but I’m still loving her part.

The comedy this movie offers is not too much, and I could find myself enjoying every single of it.

The story line about Will’s career is also my favourite kind of story I would like to find in a movie; how a character struggles to get what she or he wants. Yeah, that’s true. Saying myself as an ambitious is not generally what I did, but I couldn’t deny the fact that movies about internship, work, or college with a large amount of ‘ambition’ tangled in its main character’s life is the theme of movies I prefer so much. No hard feeling, I leave all the judgement to you.

At last, this kind of movie will always have my favour – the one that is very heartwarming without being bothered by showing some unnecessary scenes (yeah that’s what I mean). I said unnecessary since I am very much aware that at some cases, those ‘unnecessary’ scene is necessary, so I don’t have any problem dealing with it. I mean, movie is an artwork, and we watch it for all that purpose.

Guess what. When I watched this movie, all I thought the entire time was that Ryan Reynolds is Blake’s husband (I’m currently on Season 2 of Gossip Girl), but not after I half finished writing this piece that I realised Reynolds also stars in Deadpool, the movie that I was really curious of these days and the one I planned to watch next on theater.

Coincidence? Not yet, because Deadpool is actually out TODAY.