A Lost Cause

I just finished watching movie 'Laws of Attraction' starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore. I've been wanting to watch this movie ever since I saw its preview at Apple.com movie trailers. So today I got the chance to do so and I went to cinema. It came to me as a surprise when I was the ONLY person in the room to watch that movie. Ahh..maybe not everyone in the mood to watch romantic comedy movie as I was (okay Aini, Aida, aku angkat tangan - surrender!).

Synopsis

Anyway, let me briefly summarizes the movie for y'all. The movie is about two divorce attorneys. They both strive for excellence and both are professional in handling their cases although there are few times they are acting silly in the court room. Pierce Brosnan as Jeff Raffity has a crush on Miss Audrey Woods, starred by Julianne Moore, since he met her first time in the court room. Unfortunately, they are rivals because both of them are so good at handling divorce case of prominent personalities. Case after case and they finally realize that they are in love albeit Miss Wood strongly denies it.

FYI, Jeff Raffity ni agak pelik sket method dia dalam handling divorce case. But it doesn't mean he's a bad lawyer. He doesn't believe in divorce although he handles divorce case. He believes those people who end up in court room over a divorce matter is actually giving up on a fight. In contrary with Audrey Woods, she believes commitment only bring the couple into a state of doom. It's pretty odd but that's the reality for her. Old fashion gentleman with a slight eccentric habits, casual and cool guy to hang with versus Audrey Wood's endless perfection desire, insecurity over commitment and boring/lonely lawyer.

Everything starts to come together when both of them spend the time when they involve in divorce case of rockstar. Mr. Raffity represents the rockstar's wife and Miss Woods represents the rockstar himself over a dispute on property's distribution. So they have to go to Ireland and it starts there. They accidentally married after the two of them got drunk real bad (I would say, they both were trashed! Americans and their drinking habit..sigh).

Disebabkan dua-dua dah 'terkahwin', diorang pun terpaksa lah berlakon-lakon kawen sebab dah terkahwin, or else reputasi diorang habis la sebab diorang berdua ni lawyer yang sama-sama hebat pasal kes cerai kawen ni. Belakang nak jadi cerita, Audrey ni dah betul-betul jatuh cinta dengan Jeff sebab diorang pura-pura hidup bersama tapi tak sebilik/sekatil.

Satu hari waktu diorang tengah berperang kat court room, Jeff terbuat satu kesilapan yang besar pada Audrey. Audrey bengkek sangat dengan Jeff and mintak cerai. One thing I remember what he said to her,"Just because a hiccup in our marriage, you want to call a quit. Call me old fashion, but when someone loves somebody, he ought to give her whatever she wants. I will gladly give you the divorce because you want to!".

Komen

Well I dont want to comment about the movie though because I feel I better leave it to the audience themselves. However, I tend to agree with what Mr Raffity's position in dealing with relationship. Yeah, yeah, yeah..who the hell am I to have say on this because my relationship wasn't the best. Okay, I admit that.

But I totally agree with him.

Saving a relationship is a fight. This is the only universal fight which everyone is entitled the right to go all out for it. Oh yes ladies and gentlemen, it does sound scarry! We can imagine all the hardship and the rough and tough road lies ahead. And divorce is actually the true representation of a lost cause. We lost in the fight because we couldn't care less about the outcome of this catastrophic circumstance. We lost in this fight namely because the road doesn't lead to where we want it to lead. Instead, we took the short cut and we cross our fingers, hoping everything will go well with our plan.

Unfortunately, committed in a relationship is actually like engaging in a constant fight. We can win today and lose tomorrow. Everything around is tempting to oust us into a state of defeat. Supposedly, a small hiccup or even a few hiccups shouldn't be an obstacle for ourselves. Let us try to find a solution to overcome these obstacles. They can sometime be hard to plow through but hey, who says involving in relationship is as easy as ABC, right?

Nevertheless, divorce should be the last resort only and if only it can save our lives in a long run, for instance, if our spouse is a serial killer or a dangerous criminal who constantly abuses his/her partner. Hehhehe..itu sudah jadi lain cerita kan?

So..prepare yourself to fight when you want to plunge yourself into a relationship. Fight for your relationship. I know this because I already lost in a few of them..hehehe..so...ape lagi..siapkan "latihan jihad" kamu!!