Yesterday evening, Jen and I were proud to be two of the last eight people in Swindon to see Because I Said So at the cinema.
I got on the late bus to receive a message from Jen (on Schmay’s phone). There was one more showing, over at Greenbridge, in one hours time. I had been waiting for a year to see this film. No way was I going to miss it over a small fact like that I had a revision timetable to plan.
We reached the cinema in time, and were able to view the aforementioned film. In brief, Mandy Moore finds true love. Again. But below the slightly cliched surface, this film was so much more.
It was a chance to laugh at a dog driving along in an otherwise empty car, to find out that Lauren Graham can sing, and, best of all, it had the number one film ending of the century: A polka-dot wedding cake falls off of a cliff onto the head of a suicidal maniac. Wonderful.
Although I’m not sure the classification of 12A for “mild sexual references” was quite accurate, this film provided everything I needed: bizarrity, sentiment, and 33 minutes of the funniest woman alive. Go see it. Oh wait, hang on. Get it on DVD when it comes out.
We set off the car alarm. I like that.
