Directed by: Michael Showalter
Written by: Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani
Premiered at Sundance. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at Oscars.
It's a well written, and shot rom-com. Captures the modern world quite well. Struggling youngsters with aspirations. Not wanting to get into anything serious because "there's no time". Dealing with the vast differences between the ideologies of our parents and ourselves, more so with Indians. The setup and the way they fall in love, is interesting. Then the film goes into a different territory, it turns bittersweet because the girl gets ill. The guy goes through a series of events, and he ends up changing as a person. And as she wakes up, he expects things would be rosy thereafter. But she asks to go away. He's heartbroken. But later, she tells him that just because he's had this experience, he can't expect her to respond the same way he did. She has to feel that he has changed and get used to that idea slowly.
I think one of the biggest problems in the modern world is lack of patience. We get so hasty and react impulsively, more so because we can say what we want to say in a second. We can do whatever we want to. I think these are all consequences of too much of free will. If relationships could be held for years where you just talk weekly once for about 10 minutes, which used to happen earlier, which I'm sure it happens now too... why do we fall out just because we've had one small fight? I think stoicism is the answer to most of the problems pertaining to relationships. The ending though felt a bit contrived, it worked for me because it was a nice pay off to an initial setup.
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