I have watched this movie twice because of the lead pair Ashley Judd and Hugh Jackman, and the funny references to bovine love. There is also the immensely talented Marisa Tomei (who also starred in Crazy, Stupid, Love) – her comic timing is impeccable.
Love can be complicated, especially when the object of one’s affection doesn’t reciprocate or when one faces repeated rejection and wonders why. Relationship experts have theories, and if the scientific process (and sensitivity to sexism) isn’t applied to these theories, they make for easy reading. I have read “1 month for every year of the relationship” is the ideal recovery time from broken relationships. I have read of how it takes not 21, but 42 days to form a new habit. Go no-contact - that’s when one recovers.
At one point in the movie, Ashley Judd’s character pretends to be an old psychologist and writes for a leading men’s magazine on the “old cow syndrome” – i.e. how bulls prefer new cows to old cows. From moving to greener pastures to mooing all the way, the syndrome reduces men and women to bulls and cows. It made me laugh.
The house that Hugh Jackman’s character and Ashley Judd’s character share reminded me of a large garage. Watch the trailer here. Without fail, womanizers have a reason to be the way they are, and they mend their ways as soon they find the "right woman".
Love can be complicated, especially when the object of one’s affection doesn’t reciprocate or when one faces repeated rejection and wonders why. Relationship experts have theories, and if the scientific process (and sensitivity to sexism) isn’t applied to these theories, they make for easy reading. I have read “1 month for every year of the relationship” is the ideal recovery time from broken relationships. I have read of how it takes not 21, but 42 days to form a new habit. Go no-contact - that’s when one recovers.
At one point in the movie, Ashley Judd’s character pretends to be an old psychologist and writes for a leading men’s magazine on the “old cow syndrome” – i.e. how bulls prefer new cows to old cows. From moving to greener pastures to mooing all the way, the syndrome reduces men and women to bulls and cows. It made me laugh.
The house that Hugh Jackman’s character and Ashley Judd’s character share reminded me of a large garage. Watch the trailer here. Without fail, womanizers have a reason to be the way they are, and they mend their ways as soon they find the "right woman".
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