Kathrine Heigl Owes Me One

   If you are reading this you probably know that this blog exists for the sole purpose of writing for a class. This week when I looked at the syllabus it said to be as creative as you like. So as an avid rom-com watcher I am going to tell you all about how romantic movies are an unrealistic representation of love in today's day and age and how the genre in itself gives its viewers an unrealistic view of such. This is mainly because the longer I live and the more I experience the more and more cynical I become. Not to be too Carrie Bradshaw but I have to ask myself is dating today really like the movies or were they written to set us up for failure?

    If you grew up like I did watching re-runs of some Kathrine Heigl movie from the early 2000s on TV after school you know how typical romance according to the screen-writers and directors is supposed to go. You the sensible woman who eats cheeseburgers and likes (insert sport here) are supposed to find some beautiful person and fall deeply and madly in love even if you actively try to get rid of him for 10 whole days and have a beach wedding or something. And no matter what your crazy quirk is whether it's being a bridesmaid 27 times or you're a news producer who is super picky about dating you will always end up together. Yes, it is the whole point of the genre but for once I would like to see someone get heartbroken by the other person (usually a guy) and it not be some huge misunderstanding and then they go on to find some other person who makes them just as happy if not more. Must we settle for running through the airport last minute if that's all that happens? Must the girl and guy always end up together happy and in love? Because let me tell you the frog does not always turn into a Prince. You may end up kissing a lot of frogs that will never be your prince, he may just be some guy named Joe and no joe will not chase you down in an airport confessing his love and tell you that he wants to raise your dead best friend's baby with you. It does not happen.

Our whole lives we are pushed this trope of true love and there's that one perfect person out there for you and as it turns out the cynical wedding columnist actually loves the same part of weddings you do. And no you cannot go back in time when you find out your best friend had feelings for you and marry him when you are 30 again. Because we do not live in a romantic comedy starring Kathrine Heigl, Kate Hudson, or Jennifer Garner. The tropes of these films while entertaining and will make you swoon are extremely unrealistic. 

I have found that the truest to-life movies are those like Dirty Dancing or La La Land. In which the main characters do not in fact end up together and you may see your ex in a bar with your husband. So the next time you watch 27 Dresses, or 13 going on 30 just remember that life is not a movie.