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A Life Less Ordinary

{4.5/5}

I’ll be straight up with you guys. My opinion on this film is really bias. Why? Because it’s my favorite film, that’s why! So lets get into this deserving 5 out of 5 review that I’ll give a 4.5 to seem unbiased and cool.

A Life Less Ordinary. This British-American comedy, starring Cameron Diaz and  Ewan McGregor, follows two out-of-luck angels of love.

I won’t give away all of the plot, or else the movie would lose a lot of it’s most interesting and shocking scenes. I will tell you, however, that the movie begins in an all white precinct…in heaven. You probably guessed that with the all whiteness and what not, unlike me who didn’t catch on until Gabriel, the chief of guardian angels, (played by Dan Heyda) came into the scene.

Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo play these terrible cupids called O’Reilley and Jackson. All their matches end up in divorce or adultery, and Gabriel decides to give them an impossible case. That case being: make Celine (played by Cameron Diaz), a spoiled, uptight rich witch, and Robert, (played by McGregor) a fast food custodian that is being replaced by a robot, fall in love. Thank you for sticking through that long, descriptive sentence.

The angels bring this unlikely couple together by causing both their lives to turn upside down and basically fall apart. This is where a lot of the interesting and shocking plot twists happen with some of the most hilarious movie lines from that decade. So this is where I have to leave you at a cliffhanger. If you watch the movie (it’s on Netflix and then there’s the internet), you’ll understand why I’m not going farther into the plot line.

A Life Less Ordinary toys around with some philosophical and religious views on life. They also have the best ending scenes. I say scenes because there are, in my mind, three ending scenes. Robert and Celine’s wedding, it was a given they’d end up together. O’Riley and Jackson, the angels, redeem themselves and go back to heaven, Robert and Celine got married of course they would. Then, there’s a claymation montage of Celine and Robert’s life together, which is the best ending in cinema, in my opinion.

Sorry for the lengthy post, but I have to share their ending lines. This way, you can get a feel for the movies unique vibe:

Celine: So you’re telling me that successful relationships… are made in heaven? Not founded on the daily practicality… of two people being prepared… to tolerate the imperfections of one another?

Robert: It’s not successful relationships, Celine. It’s love. And it comes from a strange and wonderful place… that we don’t know about.

Celine: So you also reject the idea… that love is merely an emotional adaptation… to a physical necessity?

Robert: Completely.

Celine: Are you serious?

Robert: Fate intervenes in people’s lives. In ours, for instance. Fate brought us together. It kept us together. We were destined for one another.

Celine: Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point.

Robert: But that’s part of the beauty of it. It’s inexplicable, unpredictable… and absolutely beyond control or understanding.

Celine: But you nearly got killed.

Robert: But I didn’t… and here we are.

Celine: Do you have any substantial evidence to back all this?

Robert: None at all.

Celine: And you realize that it’s absurd and irrational?

Robert: I know that.

Celine: Then why do you believe it?

Robert: Because, Celine, I’m a dreamer.

Celine: Well, I guess that makes two of us.

Robert: Are you ready?

Celine: As I’ll ever be.

Robert: Then let’s go.

(The angels going home)

Gabriel: All clear.

O’Reilly, Jackson: [rising and gasping for breath]

Gabriel: So, how was it?

O’Reilly: Believe me Gabriel, you don’t want to know.

Gabriel: But it worked!

O’Reilly: Love… worked.

[O’Reilly and Jackson hold hands]

Gabriel: Amaratus pathum laborium!

Jackson: Are we going home now?

Gabriel: We’re goin’ home.

Jackson: At last.

Danielle’s Throwback Thursday is a monthly blog posting on the first Thursday of each month, written and created by Danielle Laudick, reviewing odds and ends from the past.

Danielle Laudick is a senior at Shawnee Mission South, and is an active participant in theater.

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