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With news of hurricane Earl headed towards Fairfield, my friends and I decided to escape the soon-to-be stormy weather and take shelter in a movie theater. We grabbed some popcorn, soda, the essentials, and headed towards the theater marked, “Going the Distance”.
As I prepared myself for a sappy chick flick, I was quite surprised. The story of boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl move far away from each other, was surprisingly non-cliché. In fact, the relationship between Drew Barrymore’s character and Justin Long’s character was real. There was no love at first sight, but in fact a small quarrel which lead to many drinks and hits from a bong. And what started out as a standard hook up (which most college students can relate to) lead to a serious relationship with real hardships and frustrations.
Both characters had great chemistry, and their troubles and pain was quite convincing when they began to realize a long distance relationship is extremely difficult, harder than they had imagined. Drew Barrymore took the cake with her shockingly funny lines and out-of-character role (her cute outfits didn’t hurt either) and the supporting actors were also hilarious with their serious yet bizarre insights to relationships in general.
I took particular interest in this movie since I am in a long-distance relationship and found myself relating to a lot of the scenarios played out by the main characters and situations, good and bad, that occur when the person you love is thousands of miles away. All in all, I really enjoyed this movie and definitely recommend that you see it, especially with a group of friends.
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